Japan Stories

Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
'Social Order Could Collapse' in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say 116
To Combat Space Pollution, Japan Plans Launch of World's First Wooden Satellite 59
F-Zero Courses From a Dead Nintendo Satellite Service Restored Using VHS and AI 15
TSMC To Build Second Japan Chip Factory, Raising Investment To $20 Billion 44
Japan's Moon Lander Snaps Final Photo, Goes Dormant Before 354-Hour Lunar Night 12
Fans Preserve and Emulate Sega's Extremely Rare '80s 'AI Computer' 15
Japan To Introduce Six-Month Residency Visa For 'Digital Nomads' 50
Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents 45
Japan's Moon Lander Overcomes Power Crisis, Starts Scientific Operations 35
Photo Shows Japan's Moon Lander Arrived Upside-Down 22
Japan's Successful Moon Landing Was the Most Precise Ever 32
Japan's SLIM Probe Lands On Moon, But Suffers Power Problem 17
Japan Startup Eyes Fusion Laser To Shoot Down Space Junk From Ground 48
Japan To Test Datacenter Powered By Reused Hydrogen Fuel Cells 9
Japan's 18-Year-Olds at Record-Low 1.06 Million on Falling Births 218
Japan Lifts Operational Ban on World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 19
Japan To Crack Down on Apple and Google App Store Monopolies 51
Toshiba To Be Delisted After 74 Years 61
Could 'Godzilla Minus One' Win an Oscar? 70
Wasabi Linked To 'Substantial' Boost In Memory, Japanese Study Finds 78
World's Biggest Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor Launched In Japan 119
Japan To Create $6.6 Billion Fund To Develop Outer Space Industry 22
Japanese Research is 'No Longer World Class' 35
Japan Investigates Google Over Alleged Antitrust Violations 6
As Fukushima Releases Treated Radioactive Water, Inspections Started by Atomic Energy Agency 68
Japan Startup Develops 'Gundam'-Like Robot With $3 Million Price Tag 36
Japan To Provide $1.3 Billion In Extra Aid To US Chipmaker Micron 12
Robot 'Monster Wolves' Try to Scare Off Japan's Bears 44
Freelancers Aren't Happy With Japan's New Invoice System 33
Can Japan's H2-A Rocket Deliver a Precision-Lander to the Moon? 9
Toyota Says Filled Disk Storage Halted Japan-Based Factories 67
China Accused of 'Coordinated Disinformation Campaign' About Fukushima Waste Water in Multiple Countries 114
Japan is Preparing For a Massive Earthquake 15
Japan Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Limits Near Fukushima 113
Wastewater From Ruined Fukushima Nuclear Plant To Be Released From Thursday, Japan Says 86
Scientists in Japan Develop Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine Showing Promise in Mice 33
Japan's Population Drops by Nearly 800,000 With Falls in Every Prefecture For the First Time 175
Japan To Boost Training for Digital Workers To Stave Off Shortage 24
Cash is No Longer King in Japan as Use of Coins Drops Sharply 100
Why South Koreans Are Rushing To Stockpile Sea Salt 89
Japan May Start Controversial Fukushima Water Release Next Month 60
EU and Japan Look To Partner On AI and Chips 7
Suzuki and SkyDrive To Jointly Start Producing 'Flying Cars' in 2024 46
Japan To Open Up Apple and Google App Stores To Competition 38
Japan Earmarks $107 Billion for Developing Hydrogen Energy To Cut Emissions, Stabilize Supplies 63
Japan Vending Machines To Automatically Offer Free Food If Earthquakes Hit 45
Japan To Launch Satellite Made of Wood In 2024 55
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge 94
Japan Will Try to Beam Solar Power from Space by 2025 111
Tokyo Has 20x As Much Wi-Fi As It Needs 39
Japan's Ispace Assumes Failure in Bid To Make First Commercial Moon Landing 23
GlobalFoundries Sues IBM, Says Trade Secrets Were Unlawfully Given To Japan's Rapidus 4
Cybersecurity Nightmare in Japan Is Everyone Else's Problem Too 23
Japan Government To Use ChatGPT for First Time on Red Tape 14
Scientists Film Deepest Ever Fish on Seabed Off Japan 18
Japan Restricts Chipmaking Equipment Exports as It Aligns With US China Curbs 12
China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint From Japan 12
Japan Lawmakers Eye Ban on TikTok, Others If Used Improperly 22
Teenage Pranks at Japan's Restaurants Lead to AI-Powered Sushi Monitors, Arrests 69
12 Years After Fukushima, Removal of Melted Nuclear Fuel Hasn't Started 49
After Nearly a Decade in Development, Japan's New Rocket Fails in Debut 32
A Recount Could Mean Japan Has 7,000 More Islands 24
Japan Formally Adopts Policy of Using Nuclear Reactors Beyond 60 Years 115
Japan's Sushi Chains Rush To Ensure Food Safety After Viral Stunts 61
Japan Plans New Government Unit To Deal With Disinformation Campaigns 89
Japan, Netherlands To Join US in Chip Controls on China 43
Japan PM Says Country On the Brink Over Falling Birth Rate 298
Japan Bets Big on Bringing Semiconductor Manufacturing Home 24
Japan Lacks the Expertise For Renewed Nuclear Power After Fukushima 141
Panasonic To Stop Making Rice Cookers in Japan After Six Decades 101
Tim Cook Relayed Concern Over App Store Curbs To Japan Prime Minister 50
In the Pacific, Outcry Over Japan's Plan To Release Fukushima Wastewater 141
Japan Adopts Plan To Maximize Nuclear Energy, in Major Shift 111
'Avatar' Sequel Crashes Movie Theater Equipment in Japan 75
Tokyo To Require New Homes Be Fitted With Solar Panels From 2025 54
Japan To Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports To China 23
Japanese Billionaire Unveils the 8 Artists He'll Fly To the Moon On SpaceX's Starship dearMoon Flight 76
FTX Subsidiary Plans Restarting Withdrawals in Japan, as US Requests Review of Fraud Allegations 17
Japanese Researchers Faked Data In Spaceflight Simulation 41
Tokyo Residents Urged To Wear Turtlenecks To Save on Energy Bills 61
Japan's Inflation Hits 40-Year High as Weak Yen Fans Import Costs 13
Japan To Invest Up To $500 Million To Manufacture Advanced Chips 20
Studio Ghibli Is Teaming Up With Lucasfilm 16
Japan Seeks Power To Turn Down Private Home Air Conditioners Remotely, Report Says 146
US Pushes Japan and Other Allies To Join China Chip Curbs 58
Japan Steps Up Push To Get Public Buy-in To Digital IDs 56
Japan To Further Relax Crypto Rules by Easing Listings of Tokens 7
Google To Open First Japan Data Center To Accelerate Asia Push 2
Canon Is Building Its First Lithography Plant In 21 Years 13
Japan Should Consider Allowing Medical Cannabis, Health Panel Says 49
Japan To Allow Visa-Free Travel After 2 1/2 Years of Mostly Closed Borders 90
'It Felt Like Star Wars': Flying Hoverbike Makes Its US Debut 117
New Submersion Method Being Considered for Fukushima Debris Cleanup 70
US Environmental Lead Says Advanced Nuclear Technology Critical to Decarbonize US and Japan 265
Japan Declares 'War' on the Humble Floppy Disk in New Digitization Push 85
Tesla Unveils New Virtual Power Plant In Japan 34
A Decade After Fukushima Disaster, Foes of Nuclear Power Reconsider 257
World's Largest Japanese Anime Database 'Anime Taizen' Opens To the Public 23
Japan Signals Return To Nuclear Power To Stabilize Energy Supply 229
Japan Wants Young People To Drink More Alcohol 196
Japan To Foster Startups By Sending 1,000 People To Silicon Valley 30
Japan Wants To Bring Artificial Gravity To the Moon 104
Japan's KDDI Mobile Service Criticized After 86-Hour Failure Last Weekend 14
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Dies After Being Shot 364
Japan Introduces Jail Time, Tougher Penalties For Online Insults 84
Japanese Court Ruling Poised To Make Big Tech Open Up on Algorithms 16
Tokyo Warned of Power Crunch as Japan Endures Heat Wave 74
Japanese City Worker Loses Flash Drive Containing Personal Details of Every Resident 38
Japan Makes 'Online Insults' Punishable By One Year 302
Japan Tries To Revitalize Its Research 29
US Retakes First Place From Japan on Top500 Supercomputer Ranking 29
Classic Japanese Audio Brand Onkyo Files For Bankruptcy 70
The Life and Death of the Original Micro-Apartments 105
Japan Invents 'Electric' Chopsticks That Make Food Seem More Salty 48
Majority in Japan Backs Nuclear Power for First Time Since Fukushima 68
Toshiba To Double Power Chip Production With New Plant in Japan 14
After 56 years, SEGA Officially Sells Off All Its Arcades 21
Yahoo Tells Japan Employees They Can Work Anywhere, Commute By Plane When Necessary 19
Panasonic To Offer Four-Day Workweek in Japan 29
University Loses 77TB of Research Data Due To Backup Error 74
Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants 101
Japan Aims To Put a Person on the Moon by Late 2020s 34
Japan To Pay Companies To Keep Sensitive Patents Secret 28
Telecom Data Storage Locations Will Soon Be Public In Japan 4
Masayuki Uemura, Designer of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Dies At 78 18
Japanese Scientists Develop Glowing Masks To Detect Coronavirus 89
Japan To Implement Bank-deposit-backed Digital Currency in 2022 32
Japan Allocates $5.2 Billion To Fund Chip Plants By TSMC and Others 16
Japan's Fugaku Retains Title As World's Fastest Supercomputer 13
Japan To Create Scheme To Subsidize Domestic Chip Output 24
Japan's Space Agency May Retrieve the First Samples From Mars - Sort of 19
After 76 Years, Japan Has Aircraft Carriers Again 184
Toyota Unveils Its First All-Electric Car 103
Man Arrested For Uncensoring Japanese Porn With AI In First Deepfake Case 73
Sony To Join TSMC On New $7 Billion Chip Plant In Japan 18
Apple and Google Under Antitrust Scrutiny in Japan for Mobile OS 9
Japan Successfully Tests Possible Deep-Space Rocket Technology 40
$97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange 44
A New Volcanic Island Has Appeared Near Japan 54
Japan Pitches 'Society 5.0' To Keep Its Edge In Tech and Science 21
Iconic Japanese Videogame Music Incorporated Into Olympic Opening Ceremony 23
US Needs Japan and Korea To Counter China Tech, Says Google ex-CEO 32
Japan Has Shattered the Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second 32
TSMC Looking Into Expanding Chip Manufacturing In US, Building Fab In Japan 14
Japanese Fax Fans Rally To Defence of Much-Maligned Machine 99
A Digital Cat Is Melting Hearts (and Napping a Lot) in Japan 34
Regulators Crack Down on Crypto Exchange Binance in UK, Japan, Germany, and Ontario, Canada 41
Police Arrest Three For Posting 10 Minute Movie Summaries On YouTube 125
Japan is Opening Its First Ever Esports Gym 34
Japan Declares 3rd State Of Emergency, 3 Months Ahead Of Olympics 96
Japan Scraps Mascot Promoting Fukushima Wastewater Dump 66
Japan To Start Releasing Fukushima Water Into Sea In 2 Years 161
Japan Poised to Approve Release of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Into the Ocean 99
Cosmic Rays Causing 30,000 Network Malfunctions in Japan Each Year 71
Isamu Akasaki, Inventor of First Efficient Blue LED, Dies At 92 22
Japan's Cherry Blossom 'Earliest Peak Since 812' 163
New Soba Noodle-Making Robot at Japan Train Station Eatery Can Cook 150 Servings an Hour 66
Japan's Fugaku Supercomputer Goes Fully Live To Aid COVID-19 Research 19
Japan Billionaire Seeks 'Crew' For Moon Trip 44
Myopia Correcting 'Smart Glasses' From Japan To Be Sold in Asia 66
Japan's NEC Corp Says New Facial Recognition System Isn't Stopped By Masks 36
Forgotten PS1 Game 'Magic Castle' Finally Emerges Two Decades Later 10
Japan's Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live 39
Japan Developing Wooden Satellites To Cut Space Junk 165
Japan To Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars, Bucking Toyota Chief 209
'Super Nintendo World' Amusement Park Previewed By Mario's 68-Year-Old Creator 13
Dust From Japan's Asteroid-Blasting Probe Returns to Earth 29
Japan To Begin Experiments Issuing Digital Yen 20
Japan's ARM-Based Supercomputer Leads World In Top500 List; Exascale Expected In 2021 25
The World Is Watching More Anime -- and Streaming Services Are Buying 65
15 Asia-Pacific Countries Form World's Largest Trade Bloc, Exclude the US 295
Honda Says Will Be First To Mass Produce Level 3 Autonomous Cars 106
Japan's New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050 48
Greenpeace Claims Fukushima Water Release Could Change Human DNA 200
Japan To Join Forces With US, Europe in Regulating Big Tech Firms 55
Japan Decides To Release Treated Fukushima Water Into the Sea 96
Five Eyes Governments, India, and Japan Make New Call For Encryption Backdoors 129
How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market 26
Giant Gundam Robot In Japan Makes Its First Moves 68
Japan's NTT Docomo Admits Thieves Breeched Its e-Money Service 21
Will Japan Have Flying Taxis by 2023? 52
Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan, Epicenter of Gaming 34
Manned Flying Car Successfully Tested for the First Time 110
Japan's Longest-Serving PM, Shinzo Abe, Resigns For Health Reasons 22
Japan Is Running Diagnostic Tests On Its First Real Gundam 108
'Wakaresaseya': Private Agents Hired To End Relationships 52
Japan Acted Like the Virus Had Gone. Now It's Spread Everywhere. 313
Twenty Years On, Japan Government's Digital Ambitions Still Stuck In Piles of Paper 49
Fujitsu Announces Permanent Work-From-Home Plan 47
ARM-Based Japanese Supercomputer is Now the Fastest in the World 72
Japan Enacts High-Tech 'Super City' Bill Where AI, Big Data and Other Technologies Are Utilized To Resolve Social Problems 35
'Japan Model' Has Beaten Coronavirus, Shinzo Abe Declares 246
Japan's Asteroid-Smashing Probe Reveals a Surprisingly Young Space Rock 7
PlayStation 2 Is Now Officially 20 Years Old 42
A Japanese Smartphone Uses AI To Keep Users From Taking Nude Photos 75
Konami Code Creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto Dies At 61 16
Japan Urges Telecommuting, Staggered Shifts To Curb Coronavirus 44
Japanese Robot Could Call Last Orders on Human Bartenders 91
Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For the First Time 38
Toyota Will Transform a 175-Acre Site In Japan Into a 'Prototype City of the Future' 37
Sony's Robot Dogs Are Helping Japanese People Find Companionship 26
Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation 93
Why So Many Japanese Children Refuse To Go To School 199
Fukushima Melted Fuel Removal Begins 2021, End State Unknown 113
Japanese Hotel Room Costs $1 a Night -- If You'll Livestream Yourself 46
What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week 253
Neonicotinoids Disrupt Aquatic Food Webs and Decrease Fishery Yields, Says Study 22
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
Stalker Found Victim's Home By Looking At Reflection In Her Pupil From High-Res Photo 99
Pager Services To End Tuesday In Japan After 50 Years 37
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Targets Final Asteroid Landing 11
Fukushima To Possibly Dump Radioactive Water Back Into Ocean 314
Tiny Japan Firm Helps to Crack Code for Next-Gen Computer Chips 25
Japan's Digital Pop Stars Blur Line Between Virtual and Reality 56
Anime Studio, Khara, Is Planning To Use Open-Source Blender Software 20
Japanese Researchers Build Robotic Tail To Keep Elderly Upright 27
Tokyo Offers $1 Billion Research Grant For Human Augmentation, Cyborg Tech 60
The Beauty of Japan's Lonely Vending Machines 128
Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments 81
SoftBank Rolls Out Second Tech Megafund, With Apple Among Top Investors 32
Apparent Arson Attack Devastates Kyoto Animation Anime Studio With Dozens Confirmed Dead 179
Japan To Lead Development of SWIFT Network For Cryptocurrency 42
A Feud Between Japan and South Korea Is Threatening Global Supplies of Memory Chips 47
Japan's Hayabusa2 Probe Makes Second Touchdown On Distant Asteroid 50
International Crime Ring Suspected in 7-Eleven App Breach 37
7-Eleven Japanese Customers Lose $500,000 Due To Mobile App Flaw 67
Small Slug Blamed For Power Failure On Japan's High-Speed Rail Network 65
In Japan, It's a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home On Time? 170
Yahoo Japan Is Under Fire for Its China-Like Rating System 41
Japan Outlaws Flying Drones While Drunk 44
Sony Scraps Japanese-style Egalitarian Salaries in Battle For AI Expertise 43
Japan To Limit Foreign Ownership of Firms in Its IT, Telecom Sectors 64
'I Oversaw America's Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think It Should Be Banned.' 583
Japan Prepares To Ban Flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Under the Influence of Alcohol 48
Japan Plans To Create 10 Billion 14-Digit Phone Numbers as 5G Era Nears 91
Japanese Railway Company Starts Testing 249mph Bullet Train Speeds 86
First Private Japanese Rocket Reaches Space 41
Toyota Establishes Research Institute In China To Study Hydrogen, Green Tech 82
First Japan-Built Airliner In 50 Years Takes On Boeing and Airbus 75
Fukushima: the Removal of Nuclear Fuel Rods From Damaged Reactor Building Begins 154
Sony Creates Colossal 16K Screen In Japan 56
Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free 163
Japanese Spacecraft Drops Explosive On Asteroid To Make Crater 34
Toyota Security Breach Exposes Personal Info of 3.1 Million Clients 19
Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait 75
Fukushima's Radiation Is Contained By a Mile-Long Wall of Ice 121
Japanese Police Charge 13-Year-Old Girl For Sharing 'Unclosable Popup' Code Online 132
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Successfully Touches Down On Ryugu Asteroid, Fires Bullet Into Its Surface 54
Japan Wants To Boost the Use of Electric Vehicles as a Power Source During Natural Disasters 74

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