Yuki Tanaka

The S&P 500 hit a record high and the Nasdaq cleared its 50-day line, lifting sentiment for Tokyo trading. Dow futures rose early Wednesday, with SpaceX, AMD, and Arista among the biggest earnings movers.

A new analysis shows younger adults are caring for both children and aging parents, a role that is straining finances and delaying retirement planning.

Shares rose 22 percent in June as investors repriced Arm Holdings stakes and Vision Fund positions in OpenAI and Anthropic.

SK Hynix and Samsung each fell more than 12 percent, triggering the market's first circuit breaker in years as memory stocks led a global tech rout.

The $15 billion campus will host 200,000 GPUs for Asian enterprise and sovereign AI workloads, with power supplied partly by restarted nuclear units in Fukui Prefecture.

The Helios-3 demonstrator fully unfurls its 150-square-meter polymer sail, registering clear changes in propulsion from solar radiation pressure.

In a mission that drew live viewership exceeding 47 million, Starship successfully transferred 100 metric tons of liquid oxygen between two vehicles in low Earth orbit, validating a technology that is essential for NASA's Artemis lunar base construction and eventual Mars missions.

The crew includes astronauts from Japan, Canada, and ESA for the lunar South Pole mission scheduled for late 2027, marking the first international crew to land on the Moon since Apollo 17 and the first commercial lunar lander to carry humans.