Japan Stories for 2011

Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines 81
Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident 267
Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers 377
Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow 123
Sony's Next-Generation Portable Is Out, In Japan 134
Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown 201
Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head 112
'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50
Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years 302
Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable 42
4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt 41
Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius 282
Fukushima Soil Contamination Probed 95
New, More Autonomous Asimo Robot Unveiled By Honda 62
Fujitsu Announces 16-core SPARC64 IXfx (and the Supercomputer It Powers) 68
Japanese Supercomputer K Hits 10.51 Petaflops 125
Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 266
Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident 259
'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems 216
Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought 308
Why Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant Survived March 193
Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? 371
Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under 313
Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits 414
Company Offers Creepily-Realistic Masks of Clients 82
Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels 186
Could Electron Counts Detect Major Earthquakes? 106
Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima 178
Panasonic To Unveil New Helper Robots 41
Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails 61
ACTA To Be Signed This Weekend 277
Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today 366
6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan 69
Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan 224
Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side 284
Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo 108
Fukushima Robot Operator Tells His Story 57
Early Earthquake Warning System In iOS 5 129
How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game 425
Japanese Man Arrested For Storing Malware 84
Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) 74
Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere 156
Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors 280
Realistic Robot Designed For Dental Students 59
Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements 215
How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake 37
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth 179
Japan Criminalizes Virus Creation 79
Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed 128
Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage 417
Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste 138
Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate 251
Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan 91
Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima 242
Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 822
Japan's MagLev Gets Go Ahead 159
Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo 102
Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump? 255
TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors 209
Testing Geiger Counters 277
Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake 202
Fukushima Meltdown Might Have Come With Earthquake, Not Tsunami 172
Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart 146
Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima 483
Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store 450
This Robot Needs a Hug 38
Square Enix Facing Big Losses For 2010 210
Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant 664
Japanese Lingerie Maker Unveils Affirmation Bra 5
Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains 221
Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima 234
Crowdsourcing Radiation Monitoring In Japan 66
TEPCO Readies Plan To Bring Reactor Under Control 116
Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis 40
Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 180
Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" 411
Japanese Robots Await Call To Action 50
Mitigating Fukushima's Dangers, 42 Days In 245
TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis 238
Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building 244
Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 673
Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done 370
30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi 342
7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued 313
Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged 322
China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital 150
Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation 280
Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking 500
After Japan's Quake, Taiwan Helps Fill iPad 2 Supply-Chain Gaps 98
US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan 183
Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan 188
Things Get Worse at Fukushima 1122
The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes 374
Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings 442
Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors 964
Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels 537
Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US 99
Carriers Delay Paying Japan's Texting Donations 235
Japanese Chip Shutdown Causing Shortages 121
A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD 392
Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant 335
Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? 562
Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark 322
Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job 349
Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan 369
The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan 265
US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis 580
Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis 253
Undersea Cables Damaged By Earthquake 91
Physicists Develop Quantum Public Key Encryption 45
US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth 164
Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants 430
Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It 177
Japanese Tsunami Survivor Found On Roof 10 Miles Out At Sea 3
Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant 691
Solar Powered Table That Wirelessly Charges Your Gadgets 56
Electricity Rationing Starting Monday In Tokyo 286
Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown 769
Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan 752
Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams 158
8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast 431
Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled 147
Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid 81
Researchers Turn Mice Into Wine Snobs 80
Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera 163
Japanese Town Holds Ninja Festival 3
Japanese Build Robot Toddlers 81
Japan Crowns New Hole-Digging Champ 0
Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study 199
Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers 200