For some years now China has held the top spot in global automotive exports. A new model is coming to the fore in the Chinese market, with tech giant Huawei at the top of the value chain, designing and directing the manufacture of rapidly growing fleets of EVs and other new energy vehicles.

Top stories in Japan for October 2026 included the Japanese scientist Soai Kensō’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The latest quarterly survey on generative AI use in Japan finds it to be more popular than ever, even among older users, although the main uses seem to be shifting over time.

A recent survey in Japan found that home subscription rates to daily newspapers fell below 50% for the first time, even while newspapers ranked second for overall media trustworthiness.

By modeling patients’ diseases in the laboratory and evaluating candidate drugs directly in human-derived cells, researchers like Okano Hideyuki of Keiō University are using iPS cells to open a new era in drug discovery. With Japan’s February 2026 announcement of a manufacturing system for an iPS cell-based therapy for spinal cord injury, the field is now entering a new phase of real-world implementation.