JCB, together with Resona, Realize a New Purchasing Experience: The World’s First Full-Scale Project to Commercialize Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Payments
JCB, together with Resona, Realize a New Purchasing Experience: The World’s First Full-Scale Project to Commercialize Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Payments

TOKYO, Mar 4, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – JCB Co., Ltd. (JCB), together with Resona Holdings, Inc. (Resona), announced the start of a project to commercialize ultra-wideband (UWB) payments that realize a new purchasing experience using UWB communication. The two companies have agreed to launch the world’s first full-scale project for the practical... » read more

TANAKA Establishes Transfer Technology for its Sintered Gold (Au) Bonding Technology “AuRoFUSE(TM) Preforms”
TANAKA Establishes Transfer Technology for its Sintered Gold (Au) Bonding Technology “AuRoFUSE(TM) Preforms”

TOKYO, Mar 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL TECHNOLOGIES Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), a company engaged in the industrial precious metals business of TANAKA, today announced a gold bump*1 transfer technology for the sintered gold (Au) bonding technology “AuRoFUSE™ Preforms.” This technology allows... » read more

MHI and SoftBank Corp. Collaborate to Adapt AI-RAN Network Architecture for Edge Data Centers
MHI and SoftBank Corp. Collaborate to Adapt AI-RAN Network Architecture for Edge Data Centers

TOKYO, Mar 2, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and SoftBank Corp. (SoftBank) today announced the launch of a demonstration experiment using SoftBank’s AI-RAN product(1) “AITRAS” to deploy edge AI applications(2) within the edge data center(3) “DIAVAULT” solution installed at MHI’s Yokohama Hardtech Hub (YHH). This demonstration will verify... » read more

DOCOMO and NEC Launch Japan’s First Commercial 5G Core on AWS, Built with World’s First AI-automated Network Construction Technology
DOCOMO and NEC Launch Japan’s First Commercial 5G Core on AWS, Built with World’s First AI-automated Network Construction Technology

TOKYO, Mar 2, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NTT DOCOMO, INC. and NEC Corporation today announced the launch of Japan’s first commercial 5G core network (5GC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 26.(1) Advanced architecture, constructed using Agentic AI,(2) enables the network to flexibly and rapidly expand capacity, such as dynamically expanding... » read more

Fujitsu supports sustainable growth for retailers with data and AI through Uvance for Retail
Fujitsu supports sustainable growth for retailers with data and AI through Uvance for Retail

KAWASAKI, Japan, Mar 2, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Fujitsu Limited today announced the launch of Uvance for Retail, a solution that integrates data onto a robust and secure cloud. The solution, which leverages Fujitsu’s accumulated business knowledge and implementation capabilities, also incorporates advanced technologies such as agentic AI. By seamlessly connecting fragmented... » read more

WELIREG(R) (belzutifan) Plus LENVIMA(R) (lenvatinib) Reduced the Risk of Disease Progression or Death by 30% Compared to Cabozantinib in Certain Previously Treated Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
WELIREG(R) (belzutifan) Plus LENVIMA(R) (lenvatinib) Reduced the Risk of Disease Progression or Death by 30% Compared to Cabozantinib in Certain Previously Treated Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)

RAHWAY, NJ and TOKYO, Mar 2, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada) and Eisai (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito) today announced the first presentation of results from the Phase 3 LITESPARK-011 trial evaluating the dual oral regimen... » read more

NEC Strengthens Multi-Vendor Optical Network Solutions with New TIP-Certified Phoenix Hardware Lineup
NEC Strengthens Multi-Vendor Optical Network Solutions with New TIP-Certified Phoenix Hardware Lineup

TOKYO, Feb 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), in collaboration with Pegatron Corporation (Pegatron; 4938.TW) and Edgecore Networks, has obtained Bronze Badge certification from the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) for its new hardware products: Endeavor (Pegatron MPND400-2) and AMX3200 (Edgecore), components of the open and disaggregated 400G optical... » read more

NEC Demonstrates Agentic AI-Driven Autonomous Network Operations in Collaboration with AWS
NEC Demonstrates Agentic AI-Driven Autonomous Network Operations in Collaboration with AWS

TOKYO, Feb 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has successfully demonstrated a technology in which Agentic AI autonomously manages the entire lifecycle of the User Plane Function (UPF)*, a primary function of 6G/5G core networks, from design, construction, and deployment through to operational monitoring. This research achievement was realized... » read more

NEC Strengthens Its Edge Portfolio for the 6G Era, Enabling Efficient Edge Deployment and Integration with Cloud Services
NEC Strengthens Its Edge Portfolio for the 6G Era, Enabling Efficient Edge Deployment and Integration with Cloud Services

TOKYO, Feb 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NEC Corporation has expanded the capabilities of its User Plane Function (UPF, *1) for telecom operators by adding support for second-generation AWS Outposts racks (*2), further strengthening its multi deployment model. With this enhancement, NEC’s UPF can now operate consistently across on-premises environments, the cloud, edge locations,... » read more

Fujitsu POS solution enhances customer experience at Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores
Fujitsu POS solution enhances customer experience at Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores

Kawasaki, Osaka, Japan, Feb 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Fujitsu Limited and H2O Retailing Corporation today announced the successful implementation of a wireless tablet POS system utilizing Fujitsu’s POS solution across all 15 Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores. This initiative marks one of the largest deployments of a tablet POS system in a department... » read more

Mitomo Semicon Engineering to Change Company Name
Mitomo Semicon Engineering to Change Company Name

TOKYO, Feb 26, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitomo Semicon Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of EEJA Ltd. (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Akihiko Domae), which operates TANAKA’s plating business, announces that it will change its company name effective April 1, 2026, as outlined below. Details of the company name changeCurrent name: Mitomo Semicon... » read more

The University of Tokyo, NTT, and NEC demonstrate real-time augmented reality assistance made possible by integrating three newly proposed technologies on a 6G/IOWN platform to realize the widespread use of AI agents supporting safety and security
The University of Tokyo, NTT, and NEC demonstrate real-time augmented reality assistance made possible by integrating three newly proposed technologies on a 6G/IOWN platform to realize the widespread use of AI agents supporting safety and security

Highlights: Integration of the proposed technologies will help address the transmission and computational infrastructure challenges faced when implementing AI agents. This trial verified the effectiveness of optimizing the transmission and computational processing of high-volume data handled by AI agents. This initiative has been selected for exhibition at the Japan Pavilion at MWC 2026, where the... » read more

NEC and Nokia to Expand Eletrone’s Optical Fiber Network in Brazil by 50%
NEC and Nokia to Expand Eletrone’s Optical Fiber Network in Brazil by 50%

TOKYO, Feb 26, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, today announced that it has been selected by Eletronet, a leading Brazilian Telecom and IT infrastructure provider, to modernize its optical backbone with the deployment of Nokia’s optical solutions. The project adds... » read more

Everest Medicines Shareholders Pass Resolutions Including Commercialization Service Agreement at EGM
Everest Medicines Shareholders Pass Resolutions Including Commercialization Service Agreement at EGM

HONG KONG, Feb 25, 2026 – (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Everest Medicines shareholders passed all proposed resolutions at an extraordinary general meeting (the “EGM”) held virtually on February 24, 2026, the company said in a filing. Per the voting results, shareholders formally approved, confirmed and ratified the Commercialization Service Agreement entered into with Hasten on... » read more

DOCOMO and Keio University Demonstrate World’s First Stable, High-Fidelity Robot Teleoperation via Commercial 5G Using Low-Latency Slicing
DOCOMO and Keio University Demonstrate World’s First Stable, High-Fidelity Robot Teleoperation via Commercial 5G Using Low-Latency Slicing

TOKYO, Japan, Feb 25, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Keio University Haptics Research Center announced today that they have successfully conducted a demonstration of high-precision remote robot operation over commercial 5G. By combining Configured Grant,*1 a low-latency network slicing technology,*2 with Keio’s Real Haptics® technology,*3 delicate force feedback and tactile sensations were transmitted... » read more

DOCOMO Successfully Demonstrates AI Application Operation Using Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) Infrastructure
DOCOMO Successfully Demonstrates AI Application Operation Using Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) Infrastructure

TOKYO, Japan, Feb 25, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it successfully demonstrated the operation of AI applications directly on the general-purpose CPU resources of virtualized radio access network (vRAN), deployed in its commercial network. This demonstration confirmed the potential of a network architecture design to address rapid... » read more