Japan's space agency says its probe Hayabusa-2 has successfully captured images of asteroid Ryugu for the first time. The asteroid, located between Earth and Mars, is the probe's destination.

Officia…

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A stone that a man stumbled across near his home in central Japan has turned out to be a meteorite believed to date back 4.6 billion years.

It is the first meteorite identified in Japan in 15 years.

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Nissan is preparing to launch its own self-driving taxi service, a sign that the Japanese auto giant is interested in challenging Uber in the race to deploy a fleet of money-making autonomous vehicle…

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Sony says it’s partnering with Daiwa Motor Transportation and five other local taxi companies in Japan to build a new taxi-hailing system to match drivers with riders via a mobile app, similar to how…

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A group of Japanese researchers has developed a thin, elastic display that can be pasted directly on human skin.

The display is about one millimeter thick and consists of micro LEDs embedded in a rub…

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Timber tower construction is the current obsession of architects, with new projects claiming to be the world’s next tallest popping up all over the globe. But this latest proposal from Japanese compa…

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Police are questioning a Japanese man who accepted a cryptocurrency called NEM in exchange for another virtual currency.

Sources close to the investigation say that Tokyo Metropolitan Police investig…

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With Japan’s ageing society facing a predicted shortfall of 370,000 caregivers by 2025, the government wants to increase community acceptance of technology that could help fill the gap in the nursing…

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A year after its tiny, experimental rocket failed to reach orbit a year ago, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched (via Engadget) an experimental rocket into orbit th…

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Researchers in Japan say they have developed a simple technique to detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear.

The National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, or NCGG, and precision machin…

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