AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoChemistry Nobel: Japan’s Kenso Soai and France’s Henri Kagan won the 2026 prize for showing how chemical reactions can favor one mirror-image form of a molecule—a breakthrough with implications for making medicines. Cybersecurity: A wave of attacks and data leaks has hit Japanese companies, exposing information linked to millions of people; a cyberattack on a SoftBank unit also disrupted local-government and corporate websites. Hydrogen: Cosmo Energy and Iwatani approved a project at a Chiba refinery to restart hydrogen production and build a liquefaction plant, expanding domestic supply. AI Infrastructure: AirTrunk plans to invest $1 billion in a Japanese data-center campus as companies race to build capacity for AI. Semiconductors: Japan’s Rapidus chip venture faces a key test: securing customers for its costly advanced-chip effort, even as partner firms help develop its chip-design ecosystem.
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