Japan Stories for 2019

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
How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan 43
Robot Squeezes Suspected Nuclear Fuel Debris in Fukushima Reactor 94
Japanese Government Plans To Hack Into Citizens' IoT Devices 96
World's First Robot Hotel Fires Half of Its Robot Staff 94
A Flexible Way To Convert Waste Heat To Electricity 134