Takashi Mochizuki

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The Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd. head office in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) officially opened its Kumamoto fab on Feb. 24, putting it on track to begin mass production later this year. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

TSMC secrets leak puts Japan’s Tokyo Electron on hot seat

By Takashi Mochizuki, Debby Wu, and others

Customers purchase Nintendo Co. Switch 2 game consoles at a Bic Camera Inc. electronics store in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Nintendo Co. fans from Tokyo to Manhattan stood in line for hours to be among the first to get a Switch 2, fueling one of the biggest global gadget debuts since the iPhone launches of yesteryear. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nintendo Switch 2 sets sales record in boon for games sector

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

Signage is pictured outside the headquarters of Japanese automaker Toyota in Tokyo on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

China promises retaliation if Japan expands its chip export controls, and Toyota worries it’ll get caught in the crossfire

By Jenny Leonard, MacKenzie Hawkins, and others

Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Japan’s video game company Nintendo, delivers a speech during a briefing of the company’s financial results at a hotel in Tokyo on January 31, 2020. – Japanese gaming giant Nintendo reported a leap in sales and profit for the nine months to December, upgrading its full-year profit forecast on strong demand for its popular Switch console. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

Nintendo teases the Switch’s long-awaited successor as investors stress about bigger-than-expected profit slide

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

Rapidus Corp.’s semiconductor foundry construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions. Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Japan’s chip companies are fighting with ski resorts for construction workers as they try to build a new plant in chilly Hokkaido

By Takashi Mochizuki, Yuki Furukawa, and others

C.C. Wei, chief executive officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), left, shakes hands with Kenichiro Yoshida, chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Group Corp., during the opening ceremony for TSMC’s new factory in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. The chipmaker, Taiwan’s largest company, plans to start shipping logic chips for CMOS camera sensors and automobiles from the facility in Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu by the end of this year through its venture with iconic local companies including Sony Group Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Japan kicks in another $4.8 billion for TSMC plant, calls cutting-edge chips ‘extremely essential for the future of industries’

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

Futuristic digital design in Tokyo city with Smart City and AI innovation technology concept, Metaverse Concept in the actual city

Video game studios are so scared of A.I. they’re forcing managers to study machine learning and offering employees $7,000 bounties for A.I. ideas

By Takashi Mochizuki, Jane Zhang, and others

‘Avatar’ sequel is so high tech it’s crashing movie theater equipment in Japan

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

Ken Kutaragi, chief executive officer of Ascent Robotics Inc., poses for a photograph at the company’s office in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Kutaragi, the legendary inventor of the PlayStation gaming console, wants to make affordable robots that can safely move around and do physical work alongside humans in factories and logistics centers, and aims to have a working prototype in about a year. Photographer: Kentaro Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The inventor of Sony’s PlayStation has no time for the metaverse or VR headsets

By Takashi Mochizuki, Yuki Furukawa, and others

Like GE, Toshiba will split into 3, signaling the end of another giant conglomerate

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

YICHANG, CHINA – MAY 14, 2021 – Citizens show the chips inside mobile phones in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province, May 14, 2021. The chip shortage has spread from cars to smartphones and home appliances.
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Shares of this obscure chip component supplier have surged by over 1200% in the past three years

By Debby Wu, Takashi Mochizuki, and others

Preview of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Universal Studios’ long-awaited Super Nintendo World finally gets an opening date

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg

Apple is facing antitrust scrutiny in Japan.

Apple’s App Store draws scrutiny in yet another country

By Takashi Mochizuki and Bloomberg