Japan Stories for 2021

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

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