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First Buildings Open at Tokyo's Tsukiji Redevelopment Site
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.5 yearsMitsui Fudosan's[1] release gives "Scheduled opening: First half of 2030s or later (advance opening of facility in fiscal 2029)", so the pin sits on 1 April 2029, the first day of that fiscal year.Mitsui Fudosan's consortium is rebuilding the 190,000 sq m former Tsukiji fish market site in Chuo City as nine buildings totalling about 1,170,000 sq m, including an all-weather multifunctional venue for roughly 50,000 people, a theatre hall, a culinary centre and a waterbus terminal. The whole scheme is costed at about 900 billion yen.0.64TSMC 2026 North America Technology Symposium in Santa Clara
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE154 days agoTSMC's[1] release is datelined "SANTA CLARA, CA, Apr. 22, 2026" and says it "today debuted" A13 at the symposium; GUC's event page gives "8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (PDT, UTC-7)" at the Santa Clara Convention Center.TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.0.61Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicles Premieres
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE77%2 episodes17.5 years agoRelease date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicles premieres, a two-part OVA bundled with the Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC manga's limited editions, continuing Sakura and Syaoran's dimension-hopping search for her lost memories.0.60Tokyo Unveils $109BN Resilience Project
CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "In December 2022, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government unveiled the Tokyo Resilience Project."Tokyo's Metropolitan Government unveiled an 18-year, ¥17 trillion ($109BN) Resilience Project to fortify the city of 40 million against earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis and volcanic activity.$109B0.60Microsoft's Fairwater AI Datacenter in Wisconsin Becomes Fully Operational
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE92 days agoMicrosoft's[1][4][5] press release dated June 23, 2026 says the company "on Tuesday announced that it has completed construction of its first datacenter facility in the Village of Mount Pleasant, after bringing equipment online and conducting startup activities in April. The facility is now fully operational."Microsoft's first datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a single cluster of NVIDIA GB200 servers it calls the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, is fully operational after its equipment came online in April.$3.3B0.59Chuo Shinkansen Maglev Tokyo to Nagoya
Nagoya, Japan
DELAYED6.5 years late65% CONFIDENCEin 7.7 yearsDate has moved, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…suke Niwa said that due to construction delays a 2027 opening was now impossible and it is not expec…"A 505 km/h superconducting maglev intended to link Tokyo and Nagoya in 40 minutes, delayed by a water-diversion dispute in Shizuoka. Estimated date.¥9T0.59TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC's[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.0.59Lesotho Delivers Its First Water to South Africa
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE28.7 years agoWikipedia[2] gives an exact date: "Water delivery officially began on 22 January 1998," after the Katse Dam was completed in 1996 and its reservoir filled by 1997.Water begins flowing from the newly completed Katse Dam through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Johannesburg, the first payment on a 1986 treaty that turns Lesotho’s rainfall into its biggest export.ZAR 9.3B0.59In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process
CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE6.5 years agoHappened as dated, per hexus.net[1]: "…progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests th…"In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process. In the following January we heard from the firm's CEO about the progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests that TSMC is confident of reaching its previously publicised goals, as it has started to allocate between 300 and 400 R&D staff to work on developing its 3nm process.0.59OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini Released
CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCE2.0 years agoOpenAI's[1] own model release notes date this entry September 12, 2024OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.0.59Hyper-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Cavern Completed
Kamioka, Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the University of Tokyo completed excavation of the colossal cavern that will house the main detector volume of Hyper-Kamiokande" on July 31, 2025.Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.$600M0.59Hetao Tech Park's Remaining First-Batch Buildings Start Completing
Lok Ma Chau Loop, New Territories, Hong KongHong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park Limited
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysThe Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau's LegCo reply says "The remaining five buildings of the first batch will be completed progressively starting from 2027", a year rather than a day.[1]The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.0.58
Mitsui Fudosan
Lesotho Highlands Development Authority
