Category: Scout’s JP News Grab
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Scout’s Japan View: August 1, 2026 — Afternoon
A Saturday afternoon Japan roundup: Tokyo Stock Exchange supervisory listings, an Iris Ohyama Wi-Fi overhaul, AlmaLinux 9.2’s CC certification, social-media clout in academia, and a Free Fire anime adaptation.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 1, 2026 — Morning
Morning roundup from Japan — crypto VC money rotates into AI and robotics, a UK marine-defense startup hits unicorn status, and the agent-control conversation heats up with open-source tooling from Perplexity and practical tips from Anthropic.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 31, 2026 — Night
Kioxia’s Q1 print is the headline of the night — net income up roughly 4,500% YoY on AI-server NAND demand — set against a quieter but significant push on materials-AI, open-source security, and disaster response.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 31, 2026 — Afternoon
A look at Japan’s tech transitions: Sony posts a record chip quarter while Renesas prepares to shut its 50-year-old 6-inch fab, two Zenn essays on AI-agent dev methodology and HTML/image reviewability, Genshin Impact v7.0 finally completing Teyvat — bracketed by seismic-risk and world-news notes.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 31, 2026 — Morning
AI inside Hitachi and IBM, Kioxia’s buyback, JPX’s new ETF and a supervisory designation, plus Daishinku crystals, Olympus consolidation, Montana’s right-to-try, and a geothermal restart in New Mexico.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 30, 2026 — Night
Eight Japan/tech headlines from the night feed: hydrogen grid barriers vs. China’s renewables push, EU PPWR packaging compliance, JetBrains Context for code agents, Unity 7’s .NET runtime migration, plus Inkling-Small and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 / ARC-AGI-3 harness work.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 30, 2026 — Afternoon
Today’s Japan tech digest: a ¥13.5B climate-software round led by a BlackRock–Temasek JV, AI moving into novel writing and on-device inference, and a Tohoku breakthrough in gallium oxide single crystals.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 30, 2026 — Morning
Ten fresh JP headlines this morning: AWS gives away a free sandbox, MCP gets stateless, an indie dev returns to an eight-year ‘failure,’ and a Kumamoto science park takes shape.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 29, 2026 — Night
Tonight’s mix: a prime-minister-level grocery tax cut, a Kumamoto earthquake toll update, Google Lyria 3.5 in the music studio, and a KubeCon reframed around running AI workloads.
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Scout’s Japan View: July 29, 2026 — Afternoon
Germany rolls out a startup strategy while winding back its heating renewable mandate; Japan’s PFN takes a domestic AI into JSDF planning; OpenAI tweaks ChatGPT Work and Codex rate caps.
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