Artificial Intelligence

This coming June, British author George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” marks the 70th anniversary of its publication. In the United States, Penguin has announced plans for a special 75,000-copy reprint.

Japanese internet bank SBI Sumishin Net Bank will work with Hitachi to offer an instant loan-screening service powered by artificial intelligence to regional banks, a sector facing intensifying competition amid the country's shrinking population.

Japan is joining the international race to add artificial intelligence and drones to its defense capabilities, driven by a need to deploy its forces more effectively as population decline thins their ranks.

A Japanese medical team has developed artificial intelligence that predicts whether emergency room patients with chest pain need to be treated with cardiac catheters based on the results of an electrocardiogram.

As the railway industry is confronted with a manpower shortage, a movement is under way to explore ways to adopt robotics and artificial intelligence.

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.

Japan will help build "smart cities" across Southeast Asia, using artificial intelligence and networked devices to tackle problems like road congestion and energy conservation.

A group of Japanese researchers is developing a device in which a smartphone notifies epilepsy sufferers ahead of seizures via a sensor built into an undershirt that detects warning signs through fluctuations of the heart rhythm.

Personalized products are taking the beauty industry by storm, with consumer goods company Kao set to join the trend next year with bespoke skin care offerings based on genetic information.

Japan will make companies responsible for explaining decisions made by artificial intelligence software they use, according to a government draft of legal guidelines shared with Nikkei.