Japan Stories for 2017

Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 133
Japan Opens First Drive-through Funeral Service 96
Former Uber Employees Have Gone Into Debt To Hang Onto Shares They Can't Sell 72
The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture 77
After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile 245
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel 220
Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early 215
The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business 276
Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? 153
Virtual Singer Uses Crowdsourced Songs To Become a Star In Japan 96
Toshiba Forecasts $1 Billion Loss 38
The Factory Where Robots Build Robots 59
First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled 123
Tokyo Preparing For Floods 'Beyond Anything We've Seen' 98
Japan Trials Driverless Cars In Bid To Keep Rural Elderly On the Move 59
Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday 116
Nintendo Faces Supply Issues Ahead of Holiday Season 100
Google Takes Blame For Internet Disruption Across Japan 59
Australia Joins China and Japan in Trying To Regulate Digital Currency Exchanges 63
MegaBots Is Finally Going To Take On Japan In the World's First Giant Robot Duel 38
Football-Playing Robots Compete At RoboCup 2017 38
Elderly Drivers In Japan Could Be Limited To Vehicles With Automatic Braking 148
Japan's Population Falls At Fastest Rate Since 1968 295
Japan Wants To Put a Man On the Moon, Accelerating Asian Space Race 74
New 'Lupin III' Commentary Track Celebrates The Glories Of Ignoring Copyrights 71
Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill 93
Konami Reportedly Blacklisting Ex-Employees Across Japanese Video Game Industry 120
Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' 78
Google Has Finally Found a Buyer For Its Scary Robot Companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank 50
Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes. 107
Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan 64
The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis: Panic Buying, $12 Bags 110
Apple May Invest Billions of Dollars In Toshiba's Memory Chip Business 27
Japan Automakers Look To Robots To Keep Elderly On the Move 40
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Payment Option In Japan, Prices Spike 77
US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots 285
Japanese Company Develops a Solar Cell With Record-Breaking 26%+ Efficiency 133
America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution 297
An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App 60
Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours 153
Japan Unveils Next-Generation, Pascal-Based AI Supercomputer 121
Delays, Confusion as Toshiba Reports $6 Billion Nuclear Hit and Slides To Loss 88
Space Junk-Fighting Cable Fails To Deploy 55
TeraHertz Transmitter Can Push 100Gbps+ Wireless Speeds Via a Single Channel 53
Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot 307
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones 56
Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 81
Scientists Cure Mice of Diabetes Using Cells Grown Inside Rats 72
Japan is Testing USB Phone Charging Stations in Public Transport Buses 71
Japan To End Tourists' Toilet Trouble With Standardised Buttons 187
Japanese Spacecraft Spots Massive Gravity Wave In Venus' Atmosphere 84
Nintendo Switch Will Launch On March 3rd For $299, Won't Feature Region-Locking Software 167
Japan Researchers Warn of Fingerprint Theft From 'Peace' Sign 119
Tesla Gigafactory Begins Production 201
Google's AlphaGo AI Secretively Won More Than 50 Straight Games Against World's Top Go Players 139
Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence 370
Verizon and AT&T Prepare to Bring 5G To (Select) Markets In 2017 53