Japan's telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will launch a business-use generative artificial intelligence platform in March, in an effort to catch up with foreign rivals in the fast-expanding market.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.'s regional subsidiaries said their internet and landline telephone services experienced disruptions Monday across Japan.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will in July begin remote work as its new norm for around 30,000 of its domestic employees, treating attendance as a business trip and allowing for work and commute from anywhere in Japan, even by air, according to a source familiar with the matter
Disgraced ministry officials also dined with NTT president
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Wednesday that its president dined with communications ministry officials mired in an ethics scandal involving Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga s eldest son.
Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported online earlier in the day that NTT President Jun Sawada had treated Makiko Yamada, Yasuhiko Taniwaki and another official to expensive meals.
The ministry said it is looking into the matter.
From left: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada, Yasuhiko Taniwaki, vice minister for policy coordination at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and former Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Makiko Yamada. (Kyodo)