Japan Stories for 2013

The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima 90
Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge 51
Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building 296
Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed 58
Tesla Would Be Proud: Wireless Charging For Electric Cars Gets Closer To Reality 176
The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up 136
Nissan Leaf Prototype Becomes First Autonomous Car On Japanese Highways 140
Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii 123
China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat 519
Japan Aims To Win Exascale Race 51
ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' 52
Toyota Announces Plans For Fuel Cell Car By 2015 115
Fuel Rod Removal Operation Begins At Tsunami-hit Fukushima 101
Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge 274
Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power 181
World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast 211
Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time 114
River City Ransom: How an NES Classic Returned 20 Years On 39
Thanks to Neutrino Detector, We Might Get a Good Look At the Next Supernova 85
Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet 375
Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues 164
TEPCO Workers Remove Wrong Pipe Get Splashed With Radioactive Water 214
Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics 106
Fukushima Nuclear Worker Accidentally Toggles Off Cooling Pumps 190
Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope 76
Japan's Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck In Limbo 78
Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan 205
Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies 201
Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops 94
Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem 111
Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials 174
Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks 225
More Bad News From Fukushima 268
Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant 211
Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish 105
Fukushima Daiichi Water Leak Raised To Level 3 Severity 92
How To Monitor Leaky Radioactive Water Tanks 111
Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts 274
Can a Japanese AI Get Into University? 91
New Radioactive Water Leak At Fukushima: 300 Tons and Growing 198
AquaTop Immersive Display System: Get Your Hands Wet to Sink Some Files 52
Fukishima Springs Water Leak 163
Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 282
Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space 87
The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet 211
Japan's Military 'Needs Marines and Drones' 159
Fukushima Decontamination Cost Estimated $50bn, With Questionable Effectiveness 221
Around 2,000 Fukushima Workers At Risk of Thyroid Cancer 124
Muon Neutrino To Electron Neutrino Oscillation Conclusively Shown 46
Japanese Gov't Accidentally Shares Internal Email Over Google Groups 25
Mount Fuji Gets 4G Wireless 18
Masao Yoshida, Director of Fukushima Daichii Nuclear Plant, Has Died 119
24,000 Nintendo Site Accounts Compromised 36
Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? 770
How Old Is the Average Country? 375
Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access 69
Google Maps Updated With Skyfall Island Japan Terrain 107
Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood 111
Cute Japanese Robots To Be Launched Into Space 90
Pinholes and Plastic Wrap Make Solid Walls "Transparent" To Sound 127
Robot Dominates Air Hockey, Adapts To Opponents' Playing Style 49
International Linear Collider Design Ready To Go 71
Japan's Radiation Disaster Toll: None Dead, None Sick 319
With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength 311
GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. 679
Monju Nuclear Plant Operator Ordered To Stop Restart Preparation 72
Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen 28
Japan Planning Exascale Computer For 2020 38
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years 218
Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor 242
Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan 158
Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber 268
U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks 185
Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound 131
Leak Found In Fukushima Tank Holding Radioactive Water 189
Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63
Major Find By Japanese Scientists May Threaten Chinese Rare Earth Hegemony 189
Hitachi's Tiny Robo-Taxi Carries 1 Passenger and No Driver 86
Fukushima Cooling Knocked Offline By... a Rat 123
Users Flock To Firewall-Busting Thesis Project 91
Japan Extracts Natural Gas From Frozen Methane Hydrate 154
Japan Plans to Restart Most of Their Nuclear Reactors 255
High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block More Torrent Sites 133
Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons 156
Japanese Probe Finds Miswiring of Boeing 787 Battery 201
Update — Sensors Do Not Pick Up North Korean Radioactivity 132
Amazing Video of a Brain Perceiving the External World 25
Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites 76
Fukushima's Fallout of Fear 124
Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing 180
Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat 83