Seeking help for even minor mental health problems still carries a stigma in Japan. This is particularly unfortunate because clinical research shows that a significant portion of Japanese adults suffer from depression or other mental illnesses. -

Today we sit down with Dave McClure under the cherry blossoms and talk about startups, funding, failure - Dave has long been involved in Japan and in the startup community here, and in this episode, we talk about the progress Japan has made in the pas...

Growing our meat in a lab or factory has been a science fiction staple for decades, but much like jetpacks, it has never quite worked out in practice -- at least not at scale. Yuki Hanyu and his team at Shojinmeat, however, are changing that. -

Many VR startups are a solution is search of a problem, but Holoeyes is already in use at hospitals around Japan. Although the medical industry is one the most highly regulated, conservative and hard to disrupt,

It’s often surprising to discover which problems are hard for AI. We hear stories about artificial intelligence being better than the most skilled humans at go, chess, Jeopardy, and better than many at driving a car,

It’s hard to make money with music apps. The competition is intense, and most people simply are not willing to pay much for music apps; either because music is something they only do casually or because if it’s something they do professionally,

Soracom is one of those rare Japanese startups that has the potential to become a major global player and to change the way Internet of Things devices work. - The real deployment bottleneck in the Internet of Things is not the hardware or the software...

Miwa Tanaka, CEO of Waris, is working to make things better for working women in Japan. - Although things are slowly changing, most Japanese women still must leave the workforce when they have children. The Waris platform helps them get back on track,...

From the transistor radio to the Walkman to the Gameboy and the Playstation, Japan has always been both a leading force in hardware technology and a Mecca for gadget geeks. - Over the past ten years, however,

There are no shortage of startup accelerators, innovation spaces and startup community hubs, and sometimes it can be difficult to put your finger on what makes one a success and another a failure. - Today,