Japan Stories for 2012

In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run 146
Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts 62
Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan? 292
Will Japan's New Government Restart the Nuclear Power Program? 177
Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker 63
The Secret To Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop 183
Real-Life Transformer Robot On Sale In Japan 54
Sharp Overwhelmed By Volunteers For Early Retirement 103
One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones 131
Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit 210
Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Inch Towards Reality 34
World's First 3D Printing Photo Booth 60
Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse 284
How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet 96
Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive 107
Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App 113
New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima 111
Japan's Softbank Buying Sprint, Creating Third-Largest Global Carrier 59
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
Sugar Batteries Could Store 20% More Energy Than Li-Ions 152
Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 150
NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber 59
Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s 214
Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting 269
Cash-Poor Sharp Mortgages Display Factories 111
Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents 221
Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks 116
The Panic Over Fukushima 536
"Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies 189
Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics, Say Physicists 222
Giant Mech Robots From Japan 104
Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure 439
Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools 252
A Build-It-Yourself Electric Vehicle 84
What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? 349
Social Networks, Suicide and Statistics 66
Japanese Parliament: Fukushima a Man-Made Disaster 134
Japanese 13-Year-Old Arrested For Virus Creation 150
China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention 227
A New Record For Scientific Retractions? 84
A Program Learns Oriental Ink Painting 53
Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time 225
Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard 99
Six Arrested Over Japanese Android Porn Virus 92
US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan 132
Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors 224
OpenRelief Project Launches Disaster Drone Project at LinuxCon Japan 30
Committee Offers Scenarios for Japan's Energy Future 131
Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan 133
Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor 78
Volunteers Use Annular Eclipse To Measure Sun More Accurately 75
Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity 201
Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies 134
Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose 86
Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down 452
Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Develop Skills 30
Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5 267
Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer 102
Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards 113
Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion 290
Sony Slashes 10,000 Jobs 92
World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima 328
NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe 267
Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast 145
Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami 148
JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation 49
Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water 282
Japanese Court Orders Google To Turn Off Auto-Complete Function 236
Red Wine and the Secret of Superconductivity 105
Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second 115
$1.5 Billion: the Cost of Cutting London-Tokyo Latency By 60ms 158
South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth 195
US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban 218
Nuclear Disaster In Japan Could Have Been Mitigated, Say Industry Insiders 204
Japan's Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown 267
Spider Silk Spun Into Violin Strings 49
World's Tallest Free-Standing Broadcast Tower Completed 65
Japan Creates Earthquake-Proof Levitating House System 243
Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters 62
NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster 56
Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 488
The Lack of Scientific Philanthropy In Japan 107
Japan Plans To Merge Major Science Bodies 107
NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use 160
Sea Water Could Cause Uranium Pollution From Nuclear Fuel Rods 97
2012 Japan Prize Honors Magnet Creator and Cancer Researchers 28
The High-Radiation Lives and Risks of Nuclear-Nomad Subcontractors 96
Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor 120
Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction 237
Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues 121
Where Were the Robots In Fukushima Crisis? 130
Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years 229
Controlled Quantum Levitation Used To Build Wipeout Track 162
Fujitsu To Develop Vigilante Computer Virus For Japan 129