Foreign direct investment to Japan for fiscal 2016 topped 3 trillion yen ($26.9 billion) for the first time ever, thanks mainly to an increasing number of takeovers of domestic businesses by overseas investment funds.
NASA has further opened up its software vault. The U.S. space agency will allow the private sector more access to some of its programming in an effort to tap often underutilized resources for the development of new businesses outside the space industry.