125: How Japan’s Unique Relationship with Robots is About to Make it #1 Again
Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese...
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Category: Hardware Startups
117: Japan’s Secret Strategy for Global Drone Domination
Blue Innovation attracted a lot of international attention last year when they announced the...
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115: A Successful Kickstarter Campaign Almost Bankrupted This Startup
Hardware is hard. In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be...
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113: Japan Announces Plans to Land on The Moon by 2020
We startup founders and investors like to talk about “moonshots”. It points out startups that have...
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103: The Hard Thing about Hardware Startups in Japan – Logbar
There’s a very good reason most Japanese hardware startups fail. Today we sit down with Takuro...
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102: Live & Unleashed – Japan’s New Wave of Hardware Innovation
Disrupting Japan is three years old, so we decided to invite a few hundred movers and shakers from...
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90: How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before the...
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89: How One Good Idea Emerged from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster – Safecast
After the March 2011 earthquake and the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO and...
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81: Japan’s Laundry Folding Robot Is Taking Over Your Closet – Seven Dreamers
It’s often surprising to discover which problems are hard for AI. We hear stories about artificial...
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79: The Missing Link in The Internet of Things Ecosystem – Soracom
Soracom is one of those rare Japanese startups that has the potential to become a major global...
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77: The Real Reason Japan Can’t Innovate & What to Do About It – Xenoma
From the transistor radio to the Walkman to the Gameboy and the Playstation, Japan has always been...
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75: Foreign Tourism is Reinventing Hiking in Japan – Yamap
Hiking, back-country skiing and mountain climbing are not usually the first things associated with...
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