Japan Stories for 2018

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Prosecutors Request Prison Time For Executives 138
Artist Proposes Small Robots with 3D-Printed Faces of Dead Relatives 55
Japan Announces Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission, To Resume Commercial Whaling 274
Tokyo Wants People To Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator 161
The GPS Wars Have Begun 210
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami 131
Japan is Giving Away Free Houses 224
Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 45
The World's First 8K TV Channel Launches With '2001: A Space Odyssey' 146
Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 193
'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' 293
Japan Researchers Develop Automated Technique For Anime Colorization Using Deep Learning 77
Apple To Drop iPhone XR Price in Japan Amid Weak Sales 74
Minister in Charge of Japan's Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer 199
Japan Grants Cryptocurrency Industry Self-Regulatory Status 10
Spacecraft BepiColombo Poised For Mission To Mercury 29
Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful 175
Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries 121
GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down 48
Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever 154
Japanese Company Announces Long-Term Plan To Develop the Moon 148
Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu 76
Japan Has Attempted To Land Two Tiny Rovers On a Distant Asteroid 51
Zaif Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $60 Million Hack 32
Sony To Source All Its Energy From Renewables By 2040 44
Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima 179
Japan To Test Mini 'Space Elevator' 114
Sony Ends Its Repair Service For the PlayStation 2 More Than 18 Years After the Console Went On Sale 69
Some Workers in Japan Who Want To Leave Their Jobs Are Paying a Startup To Tell Their Bosses That They Won't Be Back 103
Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan 172
Japan Wants To Bring Flying Cars To Its Skies 52
Did Apple Secretly Crush An App Store Competitor In Japan? 89
Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Reaches 'Spinning-Top' Space Rock Ryugu 43
NEC Unveils Facial Recognition System For 2020 Tokyo Olympics 25
Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication 211
Fukushima's Nuclear Signature Found In California Wine 140
EFF To Japan: Reject Website Blocking 41
Nissan Workers In Japan Falsified Emissions Tests, Review Says 88
Japan's Fujitsu and RIKEN Have Dropped the SPARC Processor in Favor of an ARM Design Chip Scaled Up For Supercomputer Performance 40
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Reaches Cosmic 'Diamond' 15
Japanese Writing After Murakami 66
Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact 52
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered In a 67GB Folder of ROMs On a Private Forum 158
Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars 71
Japan Moves To Ease Aging Drivers Out of Their Cars 135
Mobile Gaming Cements Its Dominance, Takes Majority of Worldwide Sales 94
Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements 162
Japan Could Have More Than 3 Million Cryptocurrency Traders 35
Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 51
Japanese Scientists Invent Floating 'Firefly' Light 28
Sony May Launch an AI-powered Taxi Hailing System 32
Tokyo To Build 350m Tower Made of Wood 108
New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos 52
Japan Wants To Increase Acceptance of Technology That Could Help Fill the Gap in the Nursing Workforce 57
Japan Launches the World's Smallest Satellite-Carrying Rocket 64
Xerox Cedes Control To Fujifilm, Ending Its Independence 60
$500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange 104
Walmart Teams Up With Kobo To Sell EBooks and Audiobooks 35
Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan 67
Japan's Latest Sensation is a Cryptocurrency Pop Group 57
Japanese Console Market Grows For the First Time In 11 Years 34