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19 Dec.”Bioplastic” which is painting-free, Roadster to adopt
Bioplastic resin, produced by Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. from bio materials, is being used for an increasing number of automobile parts. Though more expensive than the resin derived from oil, attention is being paid to bioplastic for its eco-friendliness and cost-saving effects due to no need for painting.
Comments: Bioplastic could be a breakthrough for ecological production.
20 Dec. NEC to establish a company for development of medicines for cancer treatment using AI
NEC announced that the company would enter an innovative drug development business using artificial intelligence (AI). By using AI, the company has already discovered a promising material which may be used to create “peptide vaccine” that is attracting attention as a new therapeutic drug of cancer. NEC has established a new company to push forward the drug development to put the new medicine into practical use around 2025.
Comments: What an interesting development it is to stretch its core competence of information technology to medical science!
21 Dec. Assessment of economic status raised for the first time since one year and nice months, “recovery continued”
The Cabinet Office raised an overall assessment of the domestic economy one year nine months since March, 2015, according to a monthly economic report of December. It is judged that movement of the improvement came out to export and individual consumption, saying, “the delay in the improvement was partly seen, but a gentle recovery tone continued”.
Comments: It’s a good news.
22 Dec. Honda, to partner with Google to develop automatic driving, starting a run experiment in the US
Honda announced that the company would start collaborative investigation of the “complete automatic driving” with the US net search major Google. Artificial intelligence (AI) of Google will be loaded in the car provided by Honda. The two companies will repeat run experiments in the United States and share know-how of the automatic driving.
Comments: A merger between the automobile manufacturing and information technology companies are taking place over the automatic driving, and the connected car.
23 Dec. Diplomatic documents related to Asia after the WWII to be open to the public on the web
The Asian history document center of the National Archives decided to extend the coverage of the documents related to international relations with Asian countries available to the public via its web site from those covering from Meiji era to the Second World War (WWII) to the era that include post WWII period. It is intended to fill the gap between different interpretations of historical incidents that sometimes cause disputes among different views by enabling to share the common documents between researchers and scholars. This change will start from 2017.
Comments: Better late than never — it is a good idea.
- All the news items are picked up from “Asahi Digital”, and summarized and translated by Europe-Japan Dynamics. The articles are not an official translation by the Asahi Newspaper.