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  Pre-registration is now open! “eSportStars” broadens the network of support for esports players.

  – Aiming to promote esports by providing the chance to earn money through competitions and a cryptocurrency reward service. TimeTicket GmbH (headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, CEO: Masato Kakamu), a wholly-owned Swiss...

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  MELTIN Announces the MELTANT-β Avatar Robot

  MELTIN MMI (Head office: Chuo Ward, Tokyo, CEO: Masahiro Kasuya, hereinafter MELTIN) announces the “MELTANT-β” (Meltant-Beta) avatar robot.MELTIN announced MELTANT-α in March of 2018. The alpha version was a concept model,...

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  Open Source Software to realize Conversational AI – COTOBA Agent OSS

  COTOBA DESIGN released their core technology as OSS, focused on industry use. COTOBA DESIGN , Tokyo based Conversational AI Product Startup, releases their core technologies as Open Source Software (OSS), entitled...

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  Telexistence Inc. appoints Takeo Kanade, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as Artificial Intelligence Technology Advisor

  Telexistence Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jin Tomioka; hereinafter referred to as TX Inc.) has appointed Takeo Kanade as its Artificial Intelligence Technology Advisor. Takeo Kanade is U.A. and Helen Whitaker...

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  Japan’s famous bitcoin app “PitaCoin” launches worldwide.

  PitaCoin has distributed over $ 600,000 bitcoin for free in Japan. “PitaCoin”, which was released in Japan in 2017 and has been distributing bitcoins for a total of over $ 600,000...

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  Japanese Start-Up Lang-8 Announces that their Global Q&A App, HiNative, Has Reached 10,000,000 MAU Worldwide in December

  A small company has succeeded in attracting users from all over the globe Tokyo-based Lang-8, Inc. announces that their global Q&A app for language and culture exchange reached 10,000,000 MAU on...

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  Futuristic AR Educational Toy “Kcard” That Combines AR and Cards Has Started Crowdfunding “Kick Starter”! – Arrange the cards and the AR app will determine the correct / incorrect answer!

  ASATEC Co.,Ltd. Releases Showa Astec No. 1 Building 2-7-3 Higashi Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan November 14th, Tokyo-based Japanese company ASATEC Co., Ltd. Started a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the AR...

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  CEAR, INC. Technology Uses Qualcomm Technologies’ Low-Power Bluetooth Audio SoC and Direct Digital Amplifier Solution.

  TOKYO, JAPAN, 12/6/2019 – Yoshitaka Murayama, CEO of Cear, Inc. (headquarters: Taito-ku, Tokyo,) announced the prototype of one of the first Bluetooth speakers “pavé2” for CES 2020 that is equipped with...

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  Hokusai “Shunga” Reproduction Project in Japan launched at Kickstarter -Complete reproduction with Edo period techniques-

  Tokyo, Nov. 28th, 2019 – Hanzo.inc, ltd ＆ TOKYO DUB AGENT COMPANY, LTD.（the Ukiyoe companery ＆ the marketing agency）announced the launch of Hokusai “Shunga” Reproduction project at Kickstarter. This project is...

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  First Asian Studio Joins The Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN), a Highly Curated Community of Startup Studios.

  QUANTUM Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and Chief Executive Officer: Mitsuru Takamatsu; hereinafter referred to as the “quantum”) joined the GLOBAL STARTUP STUDIO NETWORK (hereinafter referred to as “GSSN”), a...

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