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NPB Enterprise Co said its NPB+ live-stats app crossed 890,000 registered accounts in the first week of the 2026 Pacific League season, validating a Hawk-Eye data partnership with Sony Corp and Konami Group Corp after a Japan Series pilot.
NEC Corp is supplying face-recognition boarding gates for New Chitose Airport's international departures wing, part of a Hokkaido hub upgrade that tests biometric throughput before winter charter traffic peaks.
Sony Semiconductor Solutions began sampling stacked CMOS sensors tuned for automotive LiDAR modules, targeting Tier-1 suppliers racing to meet 2027 model-year safety specs in Japan and Europe.
A ransomware hit on SoftBank cloud unit IDC Frontier forced JR East, JR Kyushu, Bookoff, Big Echo and Skyticket to warn that tens of millions of customer accounts may have been exposed.
KDDI switched on trailer-mounted 5G cells along the Osaka Marathon course Friday, giving spectators and safety crews dedicated bandwidth before Sunday’s race while permanent fiber repairs continue elsewhere in Kansai.
Town halls in northern Chiba switched to satellite backhaul after Typhoon Dujuan severed fiber links to disaster coordination systems.
IDC Frontier blamed a ransomware hit on its East Japan data center for knocking government and corporate sites offline from before dawn.
Nikkei Inc. said a compromised Microsoft 365 mailbox blasted thousands of phishing links to staff and outside interview contacts in September.
IDC Frontier’s IDCF Cloud suffered a ransomware attack at a Fukushima data center, cutting service for 495 corporate and municipal customers and forcing a wider management-console shutdown while engineers isolate East Japan Region 1.
GMO Research & AI said unauthorized access to its infoQ survey site exposed personal data on up to 948,498 members and allowed fraudsters to cash out ¥2.87 million in loyalty points as Amazon gift codes.
NTT East will disable legacy IPv4 kiosks at 42 regional service centers by March 2027, pushing municipal and SME customers toward dual-stack booking tools.
Kenjiro Tsuda wins Japan’s first court recognition that AI mimics of a performer’s voice can infringe publicity rights, after more than 180 unauthorised TikTok clips surfaced.
Rakuten Mobile expanded a domestic roaming arrangement with KDDI as autumn handset cycles push subscribers toward 5G upgrades ahead of year-end sales events.
Nintendo issued a Switch 2 system update that requires a parental PIN before children can spend prepaid eShop balances, after a spike in gift-card charge disputes in Kansai.
KDDI began shipping fixed-wireless 5G routers to Hokkaido fishing cooperatives on Wednesday, replacing aging copper voice circuits as the carrier sunsets legacy phone lines in coastal towns.
Police and the Self-Defense Forces gained statutory authority Thursday to neutralize hostile servers after oversight sign-off, while critical-infrastructure operators face new incident reporting duties.
Ricoh began shipping rugged thermal printers to 14 prefectural disaster offices after typhoon-season pilots showed inkjet receipts failed when humidity soaked paper stocks in evacuation centers.
The Tokyo materials supplier says its larger silicon carbide substrate could quadruple chip yield per wafer, joining U.S. and Chinese rivals in a race to commercialize the next size class.
Fujitsu Ltd. rolled out a MIL-STD-inspired rugged tablet for Hokkaido Electric Power field crews after a typhoon-season audit found consumer iPads failing in substations where gloves and condensation are routine.
Nintendo Co. scheduled an October Nintendo Direct and told retail partners to stress-test reservation systems as Switch 2 pre-order traffic overwhelms Kanto electronics chains.
Tokyo's expert panel is weighing a littering fine ordinance as Kabukicho's overnight trash outpaces cleanup capacity — the hard part is enforcement staffing and evidence handling, not the cameras.
MIC's version 1.3 template gives municipal procurement teams a shared baseline for chatbot logs, retention, and vendor access — before the next resident dispute.
Nintendo Co published a post-incident review of Nintendo Account login failures after Silver Week handheld sessions spiked, citing authentication load and maintenance sequencing rather than a security breach while promising capacity and status-page changes before year-end travel peaks.
Rakuten Mobile Inc restored the last macro cell sites in typhoon-hit Chiba coastal corridors, clearing Silver Week drive routes as bucket crews finished tower work left by Typhoon Dujuan’s wind and salt damage along Boso highways.