The surprising experience of a Tokyo baseball game
(CNN) The World Series is one of sport's hot tickets, but match day at a baseball game in Japan outdoes anything the MLB has to offer. On one wet summer evening in Tokyo, we saw Yakult Swal…
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Japanese startup plans to test an experimental battery on the Moon
Japanese startup ispace plans to be the first to test a solid-state battery on the Moon’s surface, in hopes that this emerging technology can help solve the challenge of off-world energy st…
Robot squeezes suspected nuclear fuel debris in Fukushima reactor
A robot outfitted with remotely controlled pinchers poked at debris that’s suspected to contain molten nuclear fuel at the bottom of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, World Nuclear News reports.…
Use of neonicotinoids on rice paddies linked to fishery collapse in Japan
In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their study of fishery water quality data over two decades and what they learned from it. Much more difficult is nailing down …
Takashi Murakami, Japan's rock star artist, unveils 10-metre 'stupid cat painting'
Made of 502 silkscreens, the new work is the largest piece to ever enter the Art Gallery of NSW’s international collection. In my head [it] is stupid, stupid thing.”He lets out a big laugh.…
How YouTube autoplay gave a lost Japanese classic new life
However, in the years that followed, Through The Looking Glass began to find a small but ever-growing audience, and with time it came to be considered one of the rarest artefacts of early 1980s …
Neonicotinoids disrupt aquatic food webs and decrease fishery yields
Cascading effects of pesticide useIt is now well known that neonicotinoids negatively affect pollinators. As research has expanded, it has become clear that these globally used insecticides dire…
Lixil AI-based Toilet Analyzes Shape & Size of Feces with Camera and LEDs
Earlier this year, we wrote about machine learning & image processing in embedded systems using pasta type classification as an example. Lixil Group, a Japanese company manufacturi…
Gold And Platinum Monster Hunter Sculptures For Only $81,000 Each
East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. If you are in the market for Monster Hunter sculpture and have lots of m…
Metal Gear Singer's Other Gig? The Voice Of The Bullet Train
You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice. If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too. In Japan, her versatile voice is h…