Information & Communications Technology

The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Yomiuriland amusement park has announced plans to build a large aquarium equipped with cutting-edge technology such as augmented reality (AR) and an entertainment-oriented botanical garden.

The Japanese government plans to have all hospitals accept national ID cards in place of those for standard insurance starting in March 2021, aiming to boost their poor adoption rate and accelerate the country's digital transition.

Japanese retailer Aeon has introduced a video interpreter service at roughly 550 of its domestic stores to serve the country's rising number of foreign shoppers.

Temples across the country, including in the Chugoku region, are increasingly turning to mobile apps, videos and social media to entice visitors.

The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will install a state-of-the-art video surveillance system at venues and the athletes’ village during the games in a bid to improve the efficiency of its surveillance measures, several sources have said.

There’s a well known anecdote about Masayoshi Son, the maverick billionaire founder and chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp. and the man behind the world’s largest technology investment fund.

In light of an increasing number of foreign customers, supermarket giant Aeon Co. on Friday launched a real-time video interpreting service.

Uber Technologies on Wednesday rolled out a cab-hailing service in Osaka with a smartphone application that connects passengers to a local taxi company.

Fujitsu Ltd. has developed a system that uses AI to recommend travel destinations to foreign tourists, inferring their preferences based on such information as age and the number of times they have come to Japan.

With an eye on helping inbound tourists make payments more conveniently, the Japan Tourism Agency plans to launch a program to promote cashless payments, it has been learned.