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Japan's space agency, JAXA, stated that their space probe, Hayabusa2, left the Ryugu asteroid on Wednesday. Hayabusa2 has been observing and gathering samples from the asteroid, and it is p…
TOKYO -- The Japanese operators of the Yahoo search engine and popular messaging app Line are set to merge, creating an e-commerce giant spanning finance, retail and other internet ser…
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(CNN) For a little over a year, a tiny unmanned Japanese spacecraft has been sampling the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, capturing images, blasting a little crater in it, and firing a…
By this point, it’s become pretty common knowledge that people in the anime industry work incredibly long hours. That’s a reputation the industry has even in Japan, a country that’s already famo…
▼ There was a lot to hate in the first trailer’s design, but Sonic’s extremely human-looking teeth were especially unsettling. “So this is the new Sonic trailer. Still, I’m looking for…
KYODO NEWS - 42 minutes ago - 23:42 | Japan, AllSoftBank Corp. is considering a broad tie-up with messaging app provider Line Corp., with their talks including a possible acquisition, …
While the numbers represent a more than 10-fold increase from the 20 visa holders recorded by June, they fall short of the maximum 47,550 foreigners expected to acquire the visa by March 2020.…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 is saying goodbye to asteroid Ryugu: After a year-and-a-half of analysis, the spacecraft and its asteroid samples are heading back to our planet. Hayabusa2 depar…
Image copyright Jaxa/AFP Image caption The Ryugu asteroid is 900m (2,950ft) wideJapan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed from a faraway asteroid and begun its yearlong journey back to Ear…
