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BEIJING -- China leads the world in self-driving technology, arousing interest in whether its technology is authentic. A Nikkei reporter took a ride in a commercially operated, completely driverless taxi in Beijing, noting the details of its ride quality and safety.
TOKYO -- Efforts are underway between Japan and other Asian countries to allow mutual access and use of QR code payment services that are popular in their own countries. Japan has started talks with Southeast Asian countries and India to enable joint use of the digital payment services by 2025.
Hello from Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is visiting the U.S. this week, and the cover of the latest issue of our magazine shows Kishida during an exclusive interview at the prime minister's office ahead of his trip. The cover image is the face of the publication, and our magazine team always spends a lot of time deciding on the final design.
HO CHI MINH CITY -- TikTok Vietnam said the number of merchants on its app tripled last year, as did average sales, fueling its optimism in the tightly censored country after setbacks in markets from the U.S. to Indonesia.
Hi everyone, This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your #techAsia host for the week saying hello from Taipei!
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion in data centers in Japan by 2025, its biggest investment in the country, President Brad Smith told Nikkei in an exclusive interview, in response to Tokyo's push for more computing power for artificial intelligence.
TOKYO -- Indian Ambassador to Japan Sibi George will contact more small and medium-size Japanese companies this year in hopes of raising the number of Japanese companies doing business in India tenfold in the next few years.