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Sep 1, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Kotaro Hosokawa |Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TOKYO -- Despite strong Chinese demand, leading Japanese chipmaking equipment producers look to diversify their sales channels into countries like India to ensure long-term growth amid the risk of heightening tensions between Beijing and the U.S.Japanese chip equipment sales will increase 15% in 2024 and continue growing by double digits, the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan predicts.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
OXFORD, U.K. -- The FT Nikkei U.K. Ekiden was held in Oxford on Monday with a total of 180 runners participating, marking the traditional Japanese long-distance relay race's debut in the U.K.Eighteen teams made up of 10 runners each from Japanese and British companies, universities and others competed in the unique event. Runners in an ekiden relay race pass a sash instead of a baton. The first group of runners set off from the central part of Oxford at 8:00 a.m. on Monday.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TOKYO -- Japanese electronics company Seiko Epson plans to launch a business that recycles clothing based on its paper recycling technology as early as 2025, when a European Union ban on the disposal of unsold clothing goes into effect, Nikkei has learned. Conventional recycling methods cut clothes with a rotating blade to extract fibers and requires a large amount of fresh cotton material to maintain strength, achieving a fiber recovery rate of only about 10%.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro |Keiichi Furukawa |Yoichiro Hiroi
TOKYO -- Nikon, Sony Group and Canon are developing camera technology that embeds digital signatures in images so that they can be distinguished from increasingly sophisticated fakes. Nikon will offer mirrorless cameras with authentication technology for photojournalists and other professionals. The tamper-resistant digital signatures will include such information as date, time, location and photographer.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Hideaki Ryugen |Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TAIPEI/TOKYO -- Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn's satellite business ambitions have lifted off with a successful launch that the company sees as an entry point into a space industry forecast to grow to $1 trillion. Two experimental satellites developed by the company with Taiwan's National Central University were launched together on a SpaceX rocket from California last month.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TOKYO -- Fujifilm Holdings aims to grow sales in its Instax instant camera business to 150 billion yen ($1.01 billion) next fiscal year, more than triple the level 10 years ago, by building on its Gen Z fan base. Instax sales are targeted to grow roughly 15% for the financial year ending March 2025 compared with fiscal 2022. This would mark the fourth straight year of record-breaking revenue for the product.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TOKYO -- Nikon plans to breathe new life into its lackluster chipmaking equipment business by selling a new product in China that uses technology old enough not to be subject to export controls. Next summer, the Japanese manufacturer will release a stepper that uses i-line technology, which was initially commercialized in the early 1990s. This will be Nikon's first new i-line system in 25 years.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro |Keiichi Furukawa
TOKYO -- Shipments of mirrorless single-lens cameras are breaking records as Chinese outbound tourism revives and camera makers roll out new products with artificial intelligence features that outperform smartphones. Japan's Camera & Imaging Products Association announced on Tuesday global camera shipment statistics that show mirrorless cameras enjoyed a year-on -year increase of 20% to 253 billion yen ($17 billion) in the first half of the year -- a record high for the third consecutive year.
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May 19, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro |Aya Onishi |Keiichi Furukawa
TOKYO -- When Ricoh and Toshiba announced plans Friday to combine production of printers, copiers and other office machines, they cited declining demand and the rise of remote work. But preventing the outflow of cutting-edge technology to China may be another factor. "The coronavirus changed the landscape," Ricoh President and CEO Akira Oyama told a news conference here in a blunt assessment of the restructuring's timing.
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May 18, 2023 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Tsuyoshi Tamehiro
TOKYO -- Ricoh and Toshiba will combine production of printers, copiers and other office machines, Nikkei has learned, creating the world's largest player amid declining demand due to the rise of remote work and paperless offices. The deal, expected to be announced Friday, will merge manufacturing handled by Ricoh and Toshiba Tec into a single company in 2024. Ricoh will take a majority stake. The two sides will bring together technology to enhance competitiveness.
