{"id":258683,"date":"2016-10-16T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=258683"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:01:49","slug":"apple-to-open-another-rd-center-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=258683","title":{"rendered":"Apple to open another R&#038;D center in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is on a research &amp; development spree! The company has announced a bunch of new R&amp;D centers over the past few months, and R&amp;D spendings have <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/07\/26\/apple-rd\/\" target=\"_blank\">skyrocketed<\/a>. This time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to open a new center in Japan during a visit in Tokyo, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2016-10\/14\/c_135754991.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019re hearing about a new R&amp;D center in Japan. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macotakara.jp\/blog\/news\/entry-29688.html\" target=\"_blank\">Previous reports<\/a>have indicated that Apple was building a new R&amp;D center for 2016 or 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Cook met with Japan\u2019s prime minister Shinzo Abe to discuss all things Apple and Japan. Later at a press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reported that Apple would complete its R&amp;D center in December.<\/p>\n<p>So what is this R&amp;D center anyway? Located in Yokohama, the building used to be a Panasonic factory. Apple has taken over the building and transformed it into an R&amp;D center.<\/p>\n<div>This way, Apple can more easily hire talented Japanese engineers. It\u2019s unclear what the Japanese team is going to work on.<\/div>\n<p>Overall, in addition to existing R&amp;D centers, Apple will soon have R&amp;D centers in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/16\/apple-plans-to-build-a-new-rd-center-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shenzhen<\/a>, Israel,\u00a0the U.K., France, Japan and Sweden. Maybe it\u2019s time to rethink Apple\u2019s tagline on all of its products \u2014 \u201cdesigned by Apple in Cupertino and many other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Techcrunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is on a research &amp; development spree! The company has announced a bunch of new R&amp;D centers over the past few months, and R&amp;D spendings have skyrocketed. This time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to open a new center in Japan during a visit in Tokyo, according to Xinhua. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":258684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[12706,12707,12708,3020],"class_list":["post-258683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-appl-research-department","tag-apple-research","tag-apple-research-centre","tag-technology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}