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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
The latest news and top stories on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. A Japanese multinational engineering electrical equipment and electronics corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, MHI operates globally across diverse sectors including energy, logistics, infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defence. Its extensive product portfolio encompasses power systems, ships, aircraft, space launch vehicles and defence equipment.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the signing of their Joint Declaration on Economic Security Cooperation in Canberra on Monday. Photo: AAP/dpa
Japan

Bound by anxiety: Japan and Australia deepen ties for an uneasy age

Shared concerns about trade coercion and energy shocks are driving the two middle powers to ‘institutionalise’ their partnership.

Japan

Asian Angle | Why Japan-China ties can benefit from promoting people-to-people exchanges

Japan

As I see it | A remilitarised Japan threatens more than just China

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US military

Pentagon mulls plan to outsource warship design, building to South Korea, Japan

If the proposal goes ahead it will be the first time the US has bought a major surface combatant from a foreign partner since WWII.

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A feasibility study would look into having Japanese and South Korean shipbuilders supplement the US Navy’s overstretched production lines. Photo: Shutterstock
Australia

Australia signs US$7 billion Japan warship deal to boost firepower against China

The formalised deal offers Canberra a strategic alternative to uncertain US defence ties, analysts say.

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Japan

Japan, Australia finalise contracts to deliver first 3 of planned frigates

This comes as Japan is set to ease rules on defence equipment exports, which have strict limits on exporting weapons with lethal capability.

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China-Japan relations

Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear warheads, PLA Daily says

China’s military mouthpiece claims Tokyo has ‘astonishing’ stockpile of nuclear materials and the tech to produce weapons.

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China’s military mouthpiece claimed Japan had “crossed the red line”. Illustration: Shutterstock
China-Japan relations

‘Uncompromising’: Takaichi’s meeting with Trump seen as key to China-Japan ties

Neither Tokyo nor Beijing has enough incentive to compromise, observers say, signalling a new reality between Asian giants.

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China-Japan relations

Why Japan’s Type-12 missile deployment may complicate China’s regional strategy

Analysts say it could be interpreted as crossing a ‘strategic threshold’ and reinforce Beijing’s suspicions about Tokyo’s Taiwan intentions.

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Science

China beats US, Japan in carbon-fibre arms race with world’s first T1200 factory

‘Black gold’ fibre deemed transformative for energy and military purposes, EV innovations, medical devices and low-altitude economy.

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State media says China is the first country to mass produce the strongest carbon fibre available, a development with implications across a number of hi-tech sectors. Photo: CCTV
China-Japan relations

China adds Japanese entities to export control list, turning up heat on Tokyo

Beijing has also added 20 Japanese firms and institutions to a watch list for the export of goods with potential military applications.

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China has added 20 Japanese entities to an export control list amid heightened tensions with Tokyo. Photo: AFP
Japan

Can Japan’s space industry regain thrust after H3 rocket failure?

Failure is inevitable, aerospace experts say, so Japan needs to be less afraid of making mistakes and move on.

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Japan

Japan’s H3 rocket fails to deploy geolocation satellite after engine cuts out

The Michibiki satellite is the sixth in a seven-orbiter geolocation system aimed at giving Japan highly accurate positioning services.

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Technology

Opinion | Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story

Studies from Vietnam to South Korea show AI adoption has not cannibalised jobs. Instead of simple mechanisation, economies are synergising.

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The automated Seres Super Factory fpr electric vehicles in Liangjiang New Area, southwest China’s Chongqing, on September 19. Photo: Xinhua
Space

Japan to put hypersonic missile-tracking technology to the test in space

Japanese cargo spacecraft HTV-X is on a resupply mission at the ISS, and it will later be used to monitor an HGV with infrared sensors.

An H3 rocket carrying the first HTV-X unmanned cargo spacecraft bound for the ISS lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Minamitane, Japan on Sunday. Photo: Kyodo
Japan

Why Japan is investing in an arsenal of inflatable dummy weapons

The tactic is also rooted in Japan’s fighting history, where logistical and geographical challenges make decoys an ‘appealing’ prospect.

China-Japan relations

Mixed signals from US lead Japan to broaden defence ties to counter China

With navy drills and ship sales, Japan is strengthening security relations with Britain, Australia and other non-US allies, analysts note.

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New Zealand

Japanese warships return to Wellington after 90 years, boosting Pacific ties

The last time a Japanese naval vessel visited the New Zealand capital was in 1936.

Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force’s JS Ise and JS Suzunami tied up in the port of Wellington, New Zealand, on Friday. Photo: AP
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