Southeast Asia News Desk

TOKYO, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it has been named a winner at the Newsweek AI Impact Awards 2026 (*1). NEC was recognized for its Management Dashboard initiative targeted at accelerating decision-making with AI in the category of AI Workplace: Best Outcomes, Leadership and […]

Daisuke Okanohara, Co-Founder and CEO of PFN and Eisaku Ito, President and CEO of MHI TOKYO, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) have entered into a business alliance agreement to jointly develop cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance the intelligence and autonomy of […]

TOKYO, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – JAL Engineering Co., Ltd. (JALEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL), and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have concluded discussions and jointly established a new company, Aero Breath Co., Ltd., dedicated to the aircraft aftermarket business, effective today, June 1, 2026. […]

TOKYO, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), to contribute to the realization of a resource-circulating society, is working to develop and commercialize AdBio® (Biomass High-Efficiency Recovery and Recycling System),(1) a system to efficiently sort and recover biomass such as food waste and paper from municipal waste and […]

Kobe, Kawasaki, Japan, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – DUNLOP (Company name: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. [1] ) and Fujitsu Limited [2] today announced that they have jointly developed a technology, an AI surrogate model, to predict tire performance with high accuracy and in a short time using AI, confirming its effectiveness […]

TOKYO, June 3, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions Corporation (MEBS, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Iwao Oda) today announced that Taiwan Mitsubishi Elevator Co., Ltd. (TMEC), an MEBS group company that manufactures, sells, installs, and maintains elevators and escalators in Taiwan, has delivered 153 elevators and escalators for the first […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 29, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu Limited today announced the launch of “Fujitsu Sustainability Disclosure Navigator,” a new service under its Sustainable Finance offering within “Uvance for Finance”. This service leverages AI to analyze non-financial information disclosure, helping companies organize and manage disclosure content based on ESG evaluation criteria […]

SHANGHAI, May 29, 2026 – (ACN Newswire) – Sigenergy today introduced SigenAgent, the energy industry’s first all-domain AI agent, fundamentally changing how households and businesses interact with renewable energy. Unveiled during the company’s “AI in All” event, SigenAgent elevates solar-and-storage hardware from basic, reactive equipment into autonomous, goal-driven systems. As global energy dynamics transition from […]

TOKYO, Japan, May 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that wheelchair racer Catherine Debrunner, supported with Honda racing wheelchairs, shaved 1.03 seconds off her previous world record to set a new world record time of 26.44 in the Women’s 200m T53 at the 2026 World Para Athletics Grand […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu Limited today announced that it entered into a strategic partnership with Anthropic PBC. Through this strategic partnership, entered into on May 27th, Fujitsu will combine Anthropic’s advanced AI technologies with Fujitsu’s long-established industry and business expertise, as well as its capabilities in building […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu Limited today announced a collaboration with OpenAI commencing on the same day. Through this collaboration, Fujitsu will position OpenAI’s advanced AI technologies within its AI service lineup and accelerate AI transformation in Japan’s enterprise sector. By combining OpenAI’s advanced AI technologies with Fujitsu’s […]

Zurich, May 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) –  Hitachi Energy, a global leader in electrification, and Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), a leading manufacturer of construction equipment machinery, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on developing end-to-end approaches that support the deployment of zero-emission construction sites. The collaboration brings together electric […]

TOKYO, May 27, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), in partnership with New York University (NYU), has evaluated the broader economic impacts of a flood protection project implemented on the Island of Manhattan in New York City. This was achieved by constructing value analysis models for five themes: transportation […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 26, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) –  Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed and begun providing a core system capable of real-time management of information management related to the supply of parts for vessels and aircraft, and the procurement and maintenance of ammunition, medical supplies, and food, utilized by […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 26, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu today announced that its invention for improving the performance of scientific and technical computing has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize at the 2026 National Commendation for Invention, presented by the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII) [1] on May 26, […]

News Highlights: Stable communications for robotic agricultural machinery supporting future farming operations were achieved within and between fields in mountainous areas by combining mobile and satellite communications. Continuous video transmission for remote operation and remote monitoring was achieved by compressing video according to available bandwidth while maintaining image quality in areas critical for vehicle operation. […]

TOKYO, Japan, May 25, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – NTT DOCOMO, INC. (“DOCOMO”) and NEC Corporation (“NEC”), in collaboration with NTT, Inc. (“NTT”), have developed a technology (the “Technology”) that enables multiple vehicles traveling at high speed to simultaneously maintain stable communications using high-capacity millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications in the 40 GHz band, which is […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 25, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of a self-evolving multi-AI agent technology[1] that enables multiple AI agents to perform tasks as a team, continuously and safely learning from daily execution results, human feedback, policy revisions, and specification changes. In corporate operations, legal revisions, system […]

TOKYO, May 21, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) announced today the presentation of clinical research across its oncology portfolio and pipeline during the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (#ASCO26), which is taking place in Chicago, Illinois and online from May […]

TOKYO, Japan, May 21, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) will begin sales in Japan tomorrow (April 22, 2026) of the Honda Super-ONE, a new compact EV model. Under the grand concept defined as “e: Dash BOOSTER,” the Super-ONE was developed as a compact EV designed to transform everyday […]

KAWASAKI, Japan, May 21, 2026 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Fujitsu Limited announced today that it has begun building a Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) calculation platform across the Panasonic Group. This was achieved by introducing Fujitsu’s “Sustainability Value Accelerator” [1] CFP calculation solution to Panasonic Digital Co., Ltd., an IT business company of the […]