Japan's Go, the taxi-hailing app, just pulled off the country's biggest IPO of 2026, raising eighty-eight point six billion yen. According to TechCrunch, the capital will fuel an ambitious pivot: Go plans to deploy robotaxis and pursue acquisitions to tackle Japan's critical shortage of drivers. The move signals how mobility companies are betting on autonomous vehicles to solve a persistent labor crunch.

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