About Daily Azalea

Daily Azalea started in the spring of 2019 as a personal reading list. The founder, who had spent several years covering technology policy for a regional newspaper in Nagoya, noticed that English-language coverage of Japanese technology tended to cluster around consumer electronics launches and the occasional factory tour. The deeper story. Procurement policy, materials science, the slow grind of regulatory change. Was mostly left to Japanese-language trade press that international readers couldn't access. The site began as a curated digest, five links a week with short annotations.

By late 2020, the digest had grown into something more structured. The semiconductor shortage had pushed Japan's supply-chain role into the global conversation, and readers were asking for more context than a link could provide. We started writing original summaries, then short analyses, then longer pieces that tried to explain not just what had happened but why the Japanese government or a particular company had made the choice it did. The six topic areas we use today were settled on in early 2021, after a few months of experimenting with broader and narrower categories. Eight stories per topic per week is the number we landed on. Enough to be useful, not so many that the signal gets lost.

Edited by a small team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

• No sponsored content, ever. Revenue is subscriptions and licensing only
• Six fixed topic areas, each updated with eight stories per week
• Original summaries written by editors who read the Japanese-language source material
• Published every weekday morning, Japan Standard Time, plus a Saturday long read
• Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Not a remote-first operation with no fixed location
• Founded by a former regional newspaper technology reporter, not a VC-backed media startup
• Corrections policy: any factual error flagged by a reader or publisher is reviewed within one business day

How we work

We follow Japanese-language primary sources. Ministry announcements, company filings, academic papers, and regional press. And write original English summaries and analyses. The reporting and original facts belong to the publishers and institutions we link to. Our summaries, framing, and analysis are our own. We link to the source in every piece so readers can check our reading of it.

Stories within each topic area are ordered by publication date, newest first. We do not rank stories by engagement metrics or adjust ordering based on advertiser interest. There are no advertisers. The six topic areas and the eight-stories-per-week cadence are editorial decisions, reviewed annually.

If a publisher believes we have misrepresented their reporting, or a reader believes a factual claim in our summary is wrong, email desk@daily-azalea.com. We review every request within one business day. Confirmed errors are corrected with a visible note showing the original text and the date of correction. We do not delete corrections silently.

We do not accept sponsored content, native advertising, or payment for coverage placement. If that changes, we will say so explicitly on this page with a date.

Selection rules

Items are selected from publicly available publisher feeds based on relevance to modern technology developments connected to Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

Every item links directly to the original publisher's page; Daily Azalea does not host, reproduce, or claim authorship of any reported content. All editorial rights remain with the original publisher.