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Lockheed Martin was contracted on Tuesday for a regional maintenance, repair and upgrade facility for F-35s in Japan. Photo courtesy of JASDFAug. 28 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin Co. w…
Detroit — Toyota is recalling 191,000 cars in North America and Japan because the air bags may not inflate properly in a crash. Toyota says the front passenger air bags in the cars were installe…
Construction has begun on Japan's tallest building, a 330-metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Planned to be approximately 330 metres high, th…
In their conceptual manifesto, "Metabolism 1960: Proposals for a New Urbanism," the Metabolist founders used biological metaphors to call for buildings capable of regeneration. The gro…
Image: JAXAFollowing a pair of successful touchdowns onto the surface of Ryugu, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe is packing its precious cargo as it prepares to bring samples of the asteroid back to Earth.…
KYODO NEWS - 9 hours ago - 18:32 | All, JapanUber Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it will start delivering food and daily items of major convenience store operator Lawson Inc. on a trial bas…
Overseas companies have begun testing and operating delivery robots as well. In Britain, U.S.-based Starship Technologies is providing an unlimited delivery service using autonomous robots …
This may be what event organizers the Tokyo Photogenic Team thought when they announced the opening of Tokyo Tapioca Land in Harajuku in a press release on July 16. The same group was behind the…
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed the Laview commuter train with huge passenger windows and a curved glass nose, which is now in operation between Tokyo and Saitama.…
AdvertisementConsider fake trips an extension of the YouTube’s partiality to prank videos. These numbers reflect the prank videos’ propensity to go viral. Titled, “48 HOURS LYING CHALLENGIN…
