Japan is planning to cease its usage of swastikas on maps used by foreign tourists after receiving a large number of complaints that the symbols are offensive or difficult to understand. The country had used […]

Japan is planning to cease its usage of swastikas on maps used by foreign tourists after receiving a large number of complaints that the symbols are offensive or difficult to understand. The country had used […]
Iceland’s only fin whaling company, Hvalur, just reported that it has canceled its annual summer hunt of fin whales, an endangered species. The company’s primary market for fin whale meat is Japan, but due to […]
The total cost for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo is expected to be substantially higher than the organizing committee had originally expected. The committee is estimating that the highly anticipated event will cost […]
Japanese government officials are being slammed for their poor efforts at stopping the country’s illegal ivory trade. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) recently conducted an undercover probe which discovered that ivory traders in Japan were […]
According to two prominent American investment banks, the Japanese yen is set to turn around its poor fortunes and become the world’s best performing major currency in 2016. The investment banks of JPMorgan Chase and […]
In its latest attempt to curtail the horrific practice of whale hunting, Australia is currently threatening to take a legal fight straight to the Japanese government regarding the Asian country’s resumption of its annual whale […]
Robots are taking over Japan, as analysts have predicted that almost half of all jobs in the country could be conducted by robots sometime within the next 10 to 20 years. This could lead to […]
Japanese railroad companies are building special lanes at some of their train stations just for slow moving turtles. Although the move seems humane on the surface, it’s more to avoid travel delays caused by the […]
According to Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII), a Japanese artificial intelligence (AI) program scored greater than average on a national standardized college entry exam – for the first time ever. In fact, the AI […]
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has revealed that a brand new 780 meter long protective barrier designed to prevent contaminated groundwater from getting into the ocean is already falling over. The massive wall was […]
The Japanese government has become the first country to introduce laws to protect an individual’s genetic information. An individual’s genetic code is regarded as the ultimate form of personal information, containing one’s diathetic characteristics and […]
The Mie Prefectural Police have just launched a murder investigation following the grisly discovery of the body of a high-level member of the newly troubled Yamaguchi-gumi organized gang in Yokkaichi City, Japan. According to police […]
For the first time ever, researchers have been able to obtain images of infant giant squids, creatures that are known to grow more than ten meters long. The infant squids are roughly the same size […]
Reports indicate that Russia has plans to construct three new military bases on islands in the Arctic Ocean. These bases are located only about 300 miles from the mainland of the United States. In the […]
By 2050, Toyota says that it will produce almost zero vehicles powered by gasoline. Instead, Toyota will manufacture hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Interestingly, electric vehicles were not mentioned by the Japanese auto manufacturer. […]
Rice farmers can now breathe easily as new sensor technology has been developed to monitor their paddies for them, erasing hours of field work. With concepts from the Internet of Things, rice farming is set […]
A new personal identification system in Japan came into effect on Monday, stirring up controversy in the process. The “My Number ID” system will connect a person’s individual tax information, disaster relief benefits and social […]
The hottest car brand in America isn’t Tesla or one of Detroit’s big three: It’s quietly successful Japanese car maker Subaru, which reported a massive 28% increase in U.S. sales this September when compared to […]
Two Japanese men have been arrested in China on suspicions of spying. Japan has said that these men have been held in captivity since May, and Japanese diplomats are doing everything in their power to […]
In Japan, young children have been known to take public transportation on their own and without parental supervision. Some of the children are as young as six or seven years old, and they use the […]
Japan’s Mount Aso volcano, on the island of Kyushu, spontaneously erupted on Monday spewing a thick plume of black smoke two kilometers into the sky. According to reports inside the country the amazing spectacle did […]
In northeast Japan, more than 90,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes due to widespread flooding and landslides. Joso, a city north of Tokyo, was struck by a massive wall of water after […]
A rift has appeared in Japan’s “yakuza” organized crime group, with Japanese law enforcement officials warning that the division could lead to a wave of violence among rival groups of criminals. Just like the Chinese […]
Sony, once known for the Walkman and its iconic televisions, is now entering the rapidly growing commercial drone market. The company this week launched a camera drone, in the shape of an airplane, which can […]
North Korea has announced that it will switch to a new time zone to mark 70 years of liberation from the “imperialist” Japan. Though the time change has been welcomed by the country’s erratic leadership, […]
Japanese laser engineers from Osaka University leaped to the head of their field in laser power output recently, with the first firing of their 2 petawatt (2 x 1015 watts) laser. This power output is […]
Scientists and space enthusiasts around the world eagerly and cautiously watched as space travelers from the United States, Japan and Russia successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, […]
The new Henn-na hotel near Nagasaki, Japan offers guests a unique experience as most of the hotel staff consists of robots. The name of the hotel fittingly means “strange” in Japanese as the hotel is […]
Researchers have discovered the first known dinosaur nesting site in Japan after uncovering a tennis court sized patch of rock that has yielded 90 different pieces of fossilized dinosaur eggs from five separate dinosaur species. […]
Usually consumer gadgets that sell out in a minute carry a certain fruit logo but Japanese tech giant Softbank has a new type of hit product on its hands: Human-like robots. SoftBank’s newly launched Pepper […]