Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which makes ~75% of the world's chip cutting tools, and where no staffer has a boss, with decisions made using a currency called Will
It's the start of another day for an ordinary Tokyo salaryman. On a rain-drenched Monday morning, the engineer stows … Bluesky: @quinnypig.com , @danielfos.co , @skamille.themanagerswrath.com , @cybe...
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times X: @mazmhussain , @whatthebit , @bigmeaninternet , @steveashleyplus , and @scottlincicome . Lin...
A look at why Japan, due to its culture and employment laws, is not undergoing mass layoffs in the gaming industry, as Microsoft-owned Tango Gameworks closes
After Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, we look at the reasons why Japan has otherwise been sheltered (but not immune) to many of the layoffs and trends seen further afield
An interview with Kokusai Electric CEO Fumiyuki Kanai on KKR's role in the Japanese chip equipment maker's IPO, becoming an advocate for PE in Japan, and more
David Keohane / Financial Times : X: @chrismo50s . LinkedIn: Nicholas Benes X: Christopher Moseley / @chrismo50s : ‘We had no idea what private equity was about’: Japanese chipmaker CEO on buyout bos...
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment
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Q&A with Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini about the streaming service's anime focus, working with creators in Japan, Sony, competing with Netflix, and more
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How the rise in the US of Japanese news aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, came to a halt in 2023, leading to CEO Ken Suzuki's departure in November
https://restofworld.org/... X: @restofworld : Japan's SmartNews was growing fast in the U.S. What went wrong? Once valued at $2 billion, the news app has been hit by heavy layoffs. Former employees te...
A profile of Mena Kato, Microsoft's head of Japan partnerships, who is trying to reverse years of failure selling Xbox in a Sony and Nintendo dominated market
- Japanese studios need to go beyond PlayStation, Mena Kato says — Sony and Nintendo command country's video game market
Source: Binance Asia-Pacific's head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan
- Foong led Binance expansion into markets like Japan, Korea — Market share has declined after a global regulatory crackdown