Close on the heels of struggling Japanese chipmaker Renesas' last-week statement that it will decide whether it should sell its mobile chip division in fiscal 2013, the company's new president Tetsuya Tsurumaru recently told reporters in Tokyo that the company is currently in talks with foreign companies about the sale of the mobile chip business which it acquired from Nokia three years back.

On Monday, March 18, Japanese tech giant Fujitsu unveiled a smartphone can take the pulse of the users just by looking at their faces; and said that it has plans underway to put the inventive device to practical use within one year.

The 2013 Pritzker jury has awarded this year's prestigious Architecture Prize to 71-year-old Japanese architect Toyo Ito, who has four decades of built work to his credit; and has been a presumed Pritzker front-runner for more than ten years.

In its Wednesday ruling in a patent-infringement lawsuit involving Nintendo, a New York federal jury said that Nintendo had infringed on the `glasses-free 3D technology' which has been patented by Japanese inventor Seijiro Tomita.