Magazine Contents
Nikkei Computer
- July 9, 2026
- AI as “employee”
---OpenClaw and Claude Cowork point to the future---
- June 25, 2026
- Protein AI on the horizon
---Various sectors set their sights on 70-trillion yen pharmaceutical market---
- June 11, 2026
- Information Technology Engineers Examination undergoes dramatic change
---The truth about IT certifications---
- May 28, 2026
- Training new personnel for the AI era
---18 companies engage in trial-and-error on which areas to change---
- May 14, 2026
- Physical AI: Japanese companies compete in industrial machinery, IT fields
- April 30, 2026
- The truth about stablecoins
---Next-generation digital currency sparks a payment platform revolution---
- April 16, 2026
- Five examples of common sense eliminated by AI agents
---Cutting-edge examples from five different perspectives identified--
- April 2, 2026
- Verifying the 2025 digital cliff
---Meeting never-ending challenges---
- March 19, 2026
- Corporate back office operations
---The road to automation---
- March 5, 2026
- The ambition behind Lawson’s Real×Tech Convenience
---Company teams up with KDDI to launch a convenience store for the future---
- February 19, 2026
- The truth about Google DeepMind
---A business structure providing society with cutting-edge research on AI, humanoid robots---
- February 5, 2026
- APA Hotel Ltd.’s hidden IT
---An example of technical expertise in the hotel sector---
- January 22, 2026
- Bidding goodbye to the old Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
---The new NTT counterattacks---
- January 8, 2026
- The AI skills that we should all strive for
---Boosting the sum total power of the nation with AI---
- December 25, 2025
- Comprehensive predictions for FY2026
---AI serves as catalyst of structural change in IT field---
- December 11, 2025
- Digital Agency’s leadership capacity questioned under the Takaichi administration
- November 27, 2025
- Mizuho Financial Group, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd., and Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.
IT subsidiaries restructured to play a major role in DX development
- November 13, 2025
- Apple, Google vs. the Japanese government
---Competition engendered by the Mobile Software Competition Act--
- October 30, 2025
- Consulting by system integrators
---Big changes come to business and how money is made---
- October 16, 2025
- Growth strategies for the era of cloud computing and AI
---IBM ties the two together with a view to success---
- October 2, 2025
- Japan’s megabanks reinforce the nation’s digital retail business
- September 18, 2025
- 7-Eleven strives for next-generation retail systems
---The goal: a system resilient to change---
- September 4, 2025
- 30th Customer Satisfaction Survey
---A trustworthy presence for the past three decades, and the next three---
- August 21, 2025
- AI-ready data
---The key to utilizing generative AI---
- August 7, 2025
- Building a corporate culture conducive to DX
---The three changes required to facilitate a reform-oriented mindset---
- July 24, 2025
- A field report: five new common sense of Indian IT industry
---Drawing innovation hubs and quality human resources---
- July 10, 2025
- AI agents launched in 2025
The multi-agent system---a still more evolved model---emerges
- June 26, 2025
- The last remaining areas not overtaken by DX: government and the judiciary
---A superficial kind of DX that fails to lead to improvements---
- June 12, 2025
- Using checklists to inspect information leak prevention strategies
---Subcontractors pose serious risk---
- May 29, 2025
- Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary
---Research on the company: staying strong enough to grow in the AI era---
- May 15, 2025
- Support for internal system development: utilizing “sherpas” to achieve it
- May 1, 2025
- Development of human resources for DX restarted
---Stepping up implementation and better job assignments, not limited to human resources training---
- April 17, 2025
- Domestic AI’s counterattack
---The changing environment of competition---
- April 3, 2025
- The secret to using generative AI
---Learning from 20 companies that got a head start---
- March 20, 2025
- Falsifying credentials in the SES Industry
---Structural issues questioned at trial---
- March 6, 2025
- Riding the crest of the innovation wave
---Reading the dominant megatrends of 2030---
- February 20, 2025
- The 2027 problem: the complexity of the SAP cloud shift
- February 6, 2025
- 10 years of DX by Mitsui Fudosan
---Using digitalization to build communities and reform the internal corporate environment---
- January 23, 2025
- Will user companies move away from the mainframe?
---Modernization strategies to address issues and arrive at the answer---
- January 9,, 2025
- 2025 predictions for the IT sector
The government---along with AI---hold the keys
---The future lies with development of new systems---
- December 26, 2024
- Confusion caused by the personal identification number system
---A long-and-difficult road to medical DX or digital ID---
- December 12, 2024
- Coverage on Vietnam: new trends in offshore development
---Former strategy of cheap labor now outdated---
- November 28, 2024
- The power of the vector database
---Supporting generative AI from behind the scenes---
- November 14, 2024
- Noteworthy changes in AWS premier tier service partners
---Boosting competency for new customer acquisition---
- October 31, 2024
- The truth about AI data centers
---Our surveys reveal conditions of construction plan---
- October 17, 2024
- Competition between the three major clouds
---Stepping up system development through generative AI---
- October 3, 2024
- Companies take steps to dismantle old systems
---Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry indicates limitations in 2025---
- September 19, 2024
- ITOCHU implements thorough digital transformation
---Pushing ahead with a policy that prioritizes interaction with customers---
- September 5, 2024
- 29th Customer Service Survey
---The key point: level of satisfaction in relation to higher prices---
- August 22, 2024
- Generative AI is already here
---Five leading SaaS companies incorporate the technology---
- August 8, 2024
- Standardization of municipal government systems
---Dark clouds gather over government-led transition---
- July 25, 2024
- Java endures, securing and maintaining its position as the ideal successor to COBOL
- July 11, 2024
- Techniques for boosting time performance
- June 27, 2024
- Nissin Food Products
Digitalization: the full picture
- June 13, 2024
- Independent analysis
Strengths of generative AI companies from the perspective of intellectual property rights
---Open AI removes the veil of secrecy---
- May 30, 2024
- Sales of Otsuka Corporation---non conformer standout of SI corporations---reach 1 trillion yen
No technicians stationed at customers, SES, or multi-level subcontracting
- May 16, 2024
- Chugai Pharmaceutical: DX integrates offense and defense
Goal is to be the world’s top innovation
- May 2, 2024
- Logistics sector DX launched with a view to resolving Japan’s 2024 logistics problem
---From transport network development to shortening wait times---
- April 18, 2024
- Toyota and Renesas Electronics move to rapidly implement SBOM
---Companies around the globe strive to render software more transparent---
- April 4, 2024
- Digital transformation’s drive forward offers no answers
---Japanese CIOs and CDOs give away the secrets---
- March 21, 2024
- Systems rendered in-house by generative AI
---Challenges of six advanced user companies---
- March 7, 2024
- Digital transformation of Asahi Kasei: a result of the world of 40,000 employees
---Change observed in on-site operations after eight years of struggle---
- February 22, 2024
- Taking up GX and decarbonization with IT
---Overcoming the formidable Scope 3---
- February 8, 2024
- Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi move away from labor-intensive business models
---The truth about knowledge-intensive business---
- January 25, 2024
- Digital personnel education 2.0
---Getting the gears of learning going: from the top to on-site operations---
- January 11, 2024
- Big IT predictions in 2024
---Revisions in the post-generative AI era---
- December 21, 2023
- Taking a different route from ineffective data-driven management
- December 7, 2023
- A world based on generative AI
---A rapidly changing competitive edge: from enthusiasm to inevitability---
- November 23, 2023
- Japan faces personnel shortages
---Addressing a chronic lack of IT engineers---
- November 9, 2023
- A new era for ERP: Generative AI takes it from a tool to an essential
- October 26, 2023
- The new common sense rules on servers
---GPU changes balance of power in the sector---
- October 12, 2023
- A look at the first two years of the Digital Agency as it faces challenges
Has digitalization of government progressed?
- September 28, 2023
- Steps to take in response to the 2027 problem
---SAP users scramble ahead of deadline---
- September 14, 2023
- A new era for system integrators
---Second-tier firms make a big leap---
Goal is JPY 1 trillion in sales by 2030
- August 31, 2023
- Post-corona world impacted by higher prices
---28th Customer Satisfaction Survey---
- August 17, 2023
- User abilities put to the test
---Bolstering five key factors---
- August 3, 2023
- Weak security at Japanese corporations
---Security strategies and effective operations---
- July 20, 2023
- New strategies for foreign cloud vendors
A switch in business structure prompted by expansion of cloud services
- July 6, 2023
- Digital advertising put to the test
---Bankruptcy and new creation: both made possible by AI---
- June 22, 2023
- Latest trends in generative AI
- June 8, 2023
- The My Number system: thorough verification
---What’s next after the popularization of the My Number Card with people around the nation---
- May 25, 2023
- A new era for consulting services
---DX brings about big changes---
- May 11, 2023
- The “new normal” for new university graduates whose entire school careers spanned the coronavirus pandemic
—2024 graduate hiring process changed by generative AI—
- April 27, 2023
- Companies adopt SaaS on a large scale
—Experiences of Nissin Food, Japan Airlines, Nomura Real Estate Development in successful implementation—
- April 13, 2023
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Development of the world’s three biggest Clouds
- March 30, 2023
- The new common sense on client protection
—Lessons learned from damage caused by cyber attacks—
- March 16, 2023
- GAFAM approaches a turning point
—Dealing with tougher regulations and fluctuating performance—
- March 2, 2023
- Big changes to joint regional bank systems
Changing relationships of power
- February 16, 2023
- A look at tech startups expanding overseas
—The concept and strategy behind going for success overseas—
- February 2, 2023
- Knowledge of digital transformation
—Useful 75 advices for the road to success—
- January 19, 2023
- Cultivating DX-trained human capital
—Priming the ground for digital competitiveness—
- January 05, 2023
- Big-picture projections on IT for 2023
—Predicting the future amidst confusion—
- December 22, 2022
- DX score card amongst management personnel
—Stepping up learning, overcoming paradoxes—
- December 8, 2022
- Implementing reform to engender a more agile organization
—How to create a flexible structure—
- November 24, 2022
- Strategies for systems such as mainframes
—The final phase of the modernization process—
- November 10, 2022
- Verifying results one year after launch of Digital Agency
—System launched under Kono’s leadership—
- October 27, 2022
- IT fails to learn from past mistakes
—Can abuses such as ubiquitous subcontractor agreements and vendor lock-ins be corrected?—
- October 13, 2022
- No failures allowed for digital transformation personnel training
Seven steps to a successful outcome
- September 29, 2022
- Improving system subsidiaries
The key is “engineer first”
- September 15, 2022
- Remaking industry
The amazing timeline of AI
- September 1, 2022
- New systems, new challenges in the post-COVID world
Report on Customer Satisfaction Surveys 2022
- August 18, 2022
- Promoting Japanese start-ups after a late start
Reviving industry-government-academia collaboration
- August 4, 2022
- Microservices: secret to success
A realistic design solution observed with leading companies
- July 21, 2022
- Bic Camera’s Digital Transformation Pledge
IT personnel increased three-fold, meeting the challenges of building systems in-house
- July 7, 2022
- The shocking impact of the declining yen
Lowering rising IT costs
- June 23, 2022
- Don’t let your business come to a halt!
Key points to an effective ransomware strategy
- June 9, 2022
- Panasonic Corporation takes up the challenge of digitalization
Boosting monozukuri-style manufacturing—and revenues
- May 26, 2022
- Developing AI with MLOps
The need for reform in the improvement process
- May 12, 2022
- The never-ending pursuit of digital transformation:
—Addressing the technical debt—
- April 28, 2022
- Quantum computers posed to take the lead
Reasons behind greater expectations, greater risk
- April 14, 2022
- New common knowledge on system monitoring
Cloud, containers bring about dramatic changes
- March 31, 2022
- New IT education launched
Digitalization to become a part of the national fabric
- March 17, 2022
- Digital transformation of municipal systems: a challenge from 20 years back
Can the government succeed on its pledge of “no one left behind”?
- March 3, 2022
- The rise of the digital twin
Daikin Industries, Asahi Kasei, Takenaka Corporation
- February 17, 2022
- The new common sense of security
—Re-thinking VPN, malware strategies, passwords—
- February 3, 2022
- Rapidly-changing government systems
Can the Digital Agency achieve procurement reform?
- January 20, 2022
- The Beisia Group’s management style: rewarding originality
Three companies each implement their own style of digital transformation
- January 6, 2022
- Technology: big projections for 2022
20 topics on making the turnaround, going on the offensive
- December 23, 2021
- Uncertainty inhibits digital transformation
—The road to successful digital transformation observed in a survey of 1,000 people—
- December 9, 2021
- Open innovation systems: Misunderstandings on the part of large companies causes problems throughout the process
- November 25, 2021
- Low-code and no-code development platforms used by JAL and JR East
Ushering in an era where anyone can create systems
- November 11, 2021
- Re-skilling: the key to digital transformation
Opening the door to digitalization with employee education
- October 28, 2021
- The Digital Agency
Issues and ideals
- October 14, 2021
- Internal manufacturing secrets
Companies skilled in DX: creating the organization from the ground up
- September 30, 2021
- Regional banks turn the tables
More accounting system reforms implemented
- September 16, 2021
- MS&AD: three digital strategies
Digital preparation for life insurance risks
- September 2, 2021
- Winning or losing out during the coronavirus pandemic
Report on Customer Satisfaction Surveys 2021
- August 19, 2021
- Co-creation digital transformation extends beyond organizational boundaries
New trends in companies leading the way in DX Stocks 2021
- August 5, 2021
- Mizuho Bank 2021 system failures
—Ongoing organizational problems—
- July 22, 2021
- SOMPO’s 60,000 people tackle digital transformation
Moving away from insurance with technology and data
- July 8, 2021
- Forging a driving force for digital transformation
—The advanced IT foundations of nine leading companies—
- June 24, 2021
- Eliminating cookies in just one more year: it’s not someone else’s problem
The future led by Google and Apple
- June 10, 2021
- Eliminating paper
Taking efficiency to new levels
- May 27, 2021
- IT personnel acquired by way of job-specific hiring
Moving away from the Japanese model, trump card of digital transformation
- May 13, 2021
- A new era: the digital job search
“New normal” hiring of new graduates in 2022
- April 29, 2021
- A new vein in SI
Can the big players change?
- April 15, 2021
- The new common sense on backup
A sea change in a decade
- April 1, 2021
- Tokio Marine Group’s straightforward approach to digital transformation
Both global and agile: nonlife insurance forges ahead
- March 18, 2021
- Business continuity plans under review
Can companies be truly prepared for problems, accidents, natural disasters, and pandemics?
- March 4 , 2021
- The incredible progress of IT in anti-disaster strategy
A decade from the Great East Japan Earthquake
- February 18 , 2021
- The road to new work modes
Engendering dialogue, finding inroads to digitalization
- February 4, 2021
- Reinventing logistics
Yamato, Sagawa lead the industry in complete digitalization
- January 21, 2021
- New types of AI explode on the scene
A series of promising unique machine learning models
- January 7, 2021
- Big-picture technology forecasts for 2021
Technology brings on a new day
- December 24, 2020
- Barriers to digital transformation
Three issues observed in a survey of 1,200
- December 10, 2020
- Digital transformation at school
What’s next after one computer-per-person?
- November 26, 2020
- “Go To Container”
Banks and manufacturers adopt system full-scale
- November 12, 2020
- Robotic process automation (RPA) saves the day during the pandemic
—Systems prove indispensable in processing subsidy payments, unexpected workload—
- October 29, 2020
- Recovering from digital failures
Can the new administration apply lessons from the pandemic?
- October 15, 2020
- Fujitsu’s do-or-die reforms
—10% profit target is a must-reach—
- October 1, 2020
- Living with robots
Digital transformation of real space begins
- September 17, 2020
- The reforms spearheaded by eight companies awarded for “DX Stocks 2020”
—This is Japan’s digital transformation—
- September 3, 2020
- —Now for the new normal—
Customer satisfaction surveys 2020–2021
Preconditions vendors must meet to be seen as reliable in a crisis
- August 20, 2020
- Client security in times when full protection is impossible
- August 6, 2020
- Working at home during the coronavirus pandemic
The next step: more than a transition
- July 23, 2020
- The “low-code” development revolution
—Key to post-corona digital transformation—
- July 9, 2020
- Eliminating the personal seal
Breaking the digital wall for contracts, payments, administration
- June 25, 2020
- Moving on to the post-corona era
IT sector takes the lead in three digital transformation fields to withstand next crisis
- June 11, 2020
- The “new normal” of accounting
Farewell to conventional systems
- May 28, 2020
- Zero Trust Network
No VPN required, trump card for telework systems involving all employees
- May 14, 2020
- AgriTech advances on many fronts
AI, IoT, drones, and robots to rescue agriculture?
- April 30, 2020
- Hiring technique for a time when we can’t meet in person
Corona shock impacts job recruitment process
- April 16, 2020
- Japanese-language tech effective for DX
The impact of AI capable of “understanding” language
- April 2, 2020
- Implementation of RPA
19 examples of how to make it happen
- March 19, 2020
- Venture capital: a sure way to win
The goal is a synergistic effect rather than money, borrowing expertise to boost DX
- March 5, 2020
- Dark side of IT sector revisited
Circular transactions
- February 20, 2020
- Does AI personality profiling make people happy?
—The light and shadow of credit scoring—
- February 6, 2020
- Drone tech
A magical DX tool that flies in the sky: the power to change the future
- January 23, 2020
- SDG Tech
Social issues are business opportunities: going for a market worth 1 quadrillion-yen plus
- January 9, 2020
- Big predictions for the New Year
Twenty outlooks for the future, the look of Japan in 2020
- December 26, 2019
- DX characterized by differences in approach between management and workers on site
- December 12, 2019
- All-versatile AI surpasses the human
Google changes digital society’s future
- November 28, 2019
- Lives saved by AI
The cutting edge of the Smart Hospital concept
- November 14, 2019
- How to train AI personnel capable of working on the world stage
—Gleaning hints from Japan’s Rugby World Cup team—
- October 31, 2019
- Large survey on RPA
90 companies reveal results, implementation, planning
- October 17, 2019
- 5G launch and progress
Nation’s next dream “super express” to launch—55 years later
- October 3, 2019
- An approach based on the Doreamon concept
The day AI achieves singularity beyond human capacity
- September 19, 2019
- Target plants
Vital spots under threat: anti-cyber measures can wait no longer
- September 5, 2019
- Mizuho: a straightforward third try
Overcoming obstacles to full restructuring of accounting systems
- August 22, 2019
- Customer satisfaction survey 2019–2020
- August 8, 2019
- Performance rankings 2019
30 IT service companies, 10 Internet companies
- July 25, 2019
- Soul-shaking VR
Fear, danger, and inspiration: it all feels so real!
- July 11, 2019
- The order placing/receiving revolution
Approach of the 2023 problem
A great opportunity for system reform
- June 27, 2019
- Python
The COBOL generation should look to the new “standard language” of the AI era
- June 13, 2019
- Hitachi awakens
300,000 people take up digital reform
- May 30, 2019
- The three keys to RPA
Critical points in the implementation, development, and use of RPA: the experience of 14 of the first companies involved in the process
- May 16, 2019
- Issues with recruiting
Companies make the switch to year-round hiring, affecting even popular IT company rankings
- May 2, 2019
- The challenges of ANA
Digital technologies bring about reform of internal plane structures, airports, and company systems
- April 18, 2019
- Like the mythical yellow flying nimbus:
Three new technologies come together for a faster, lighter, more flexible Cloud
- April 4, 2019
- Rakuten: Technologies that make the impossible possible
- March 21, 2019
- The world post-GAFA
Can the platformers move forward?
- March 7, 2019
- Going home early
Revised laws enacted in April provide an excellent opportunity for updated work styles
- February 21, 2019
- Earthquakes during the Heisei period
Looking back on crisis response: are we fully prepared for next time?
- February 7, 2019
- Time to embark on the digital revolution
- January 24, 2019
- Goodbye to 31 of the Heisei period technologies
- January 10, 2019
- IT technologies to look for in 2020