Demon Slayer Infinity Castle will be released into China. The Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie is witnessing record-breaking pre-sale numbers in mainland China, with projections pointing to a massive $200 million opening weekend. It has already grossed $670 million in other markets. This is the second Demon Slayer anime movie. The first racked up $470 …
Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. …
Taiwan, South Korea and China have critically low fertility rates below 1.0. Japan is also very low (1.15) and has had low fertility for longer. By 2070, the countries could halve their current populations. A fertility rebound could avert 30-70% of projected population losses by 2100. This might stabilizing societies at near-current sizes—but only if …
Jujtusu Kaisen is the the peak of Shonen anime (superhero animated action). Season 3 will release Jan 2026. It is the best superhero show. It has the best pacing, characters, powers and innovative power interactions. Season 1 is on Netflix and season 2 is on Crunch roll streaming. The manga has completed and there about …
The world has one billion missing lives. The economic impact of those missing lives has a 25 year delayed effect. We can see this effect in Japan which is feeling its missing 25-30 million missing people. Childbearing and childraising has an upfront cost but there is decades of delay to the true gains or true …
Inserting a nanometer-thin spacer in ExUC-OLEDs improves energy transfer, enhances blue light emission 77-fold, paving way for lightweight, low-voltage, and more flexible OLEDs . The effect of spacer insertion depends on the dipole moment. Therefore, it is possible to extend the material selection tolerance for ExUC-OLEDs using appropriate spacer materials. ExUC-OLEDs can be driven at …
Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue astronomical bodies. In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered dozens of seemingly physics-breaking rogue objects floating through space in pairs. James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared survey …
The US, China and Japan are working on research and development in gallium oxide crystal growth and productionizing gallium oxide chips. The Gallium oxide chips can have a voltage resistance value 3 times higher and power consumption reduced by 60%. The power semiconductor market, sometimes called power electronics, is a large and important business that …
Renault is selling its 36% share of Nissan and without a new major investor Nissan will go bankrupt in 12-14 months. At its news conference, Nissan’s Chief Monozukuri Officer (Head of Manufacturing) Hideyuki Sakamoto described major cost cutting moves. Nissan’s current plan is to reduce the operational maximum capacity of these 25 production lines by …
There is a new type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below. Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography based …
Japan plans to spend about $761 million to build a Zettaflop supercomputer. It is called Fugaku Next. It will be built by Japanese companies RIKEN and Fujitsu, which were both involved in the construction of Fugaku. The AI training clusters with lots of GPUs can get to a peak of a Zettaflop but this is …