Financial Times (March 16)
“Some look at surging domestic mergers and a record Y10tn of outbound deals in 2015 and are convinced that the ministry, now known as Meti (the ministry of economy, trade and industry), has indeed recaptured some of its old magic. To them, recent talks to merge the PC units of Fujitsu and Toshiba, and Osaka Steel’s takeover of rival Tokyo Kohtetsu, show the ministry is running Japan Inc once again.”
Tags: Domestic mergers, Fujitsu, Japan Inc., METI, Osaka Steel, Outbound deals, Surging, Tokyo Kohtetsu, Toshiba
The Wall Street Journal (June 20)
After seven years, Japan is again at “the top of the computer arms race.” Installed at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken), the K Computer “performs more than eight quadrillion (8,000 trillion) calculations per second” and is scheduled to hit 10 quadrillion in 2012 when installation is complete. Already, the K Computer “is more powerful than the next five fastest computer systems combined, and can perform three times as many calculations per second as the No. 2 super computer.”
Tags: Fujitsu, Japan, K Computer, Riken, Supercomputer
