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Nissan's ProPilot 2.0 will follow a navigation route while allowing the driver to take his hands completely off the steering wheel in some situations. Like Tesla's Navigate on Autopilo…
In the background are a handful of sunflowers and, woven through them, a spatter of morning glories. In a wave of nostalgic, nationalistic sentiment, social clubs devoted to raising mutant morni…
So we were surprised when we found a hotel in Japan that offers a room for just 130 yen (US$1.20) a night! ▼ Business Ryokan AsahiOK, so there’s got to be some sort of catch, right? In any …
Nagano Prefecture has won praise for providing foreign residents with disaster information related to powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which tore through the prefecture last month, in multiple languages and…
Death Stranding officially launched two days ago on PlayStation 4, with a PC version scheduled for next Summer. Kojima attributed this to their preference for first-person shooter games, wh…
In addition to introducing the small Honda E in Europe next year, Honda is working on a second EV for about 2022. Unfortunately, the $33,000 small EV with a 35.5-kWh pack (offering about 12…
Maybe you’re prepping for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) this December, or you have trouble picking up Japanese with coworkers and friends? If you’re not familiar, Let’s Plays are…
Tokyo events for Monday, November 11 to Sunday, November 17, 2019A magical week where Tokyo celebrates just about anything—autumn leaves, Christmas lights, vegan food, fisherman, design and dance.…
TOKYO -- Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, is looking to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, Nikkei ha…
Japanese website Iris Pet recently completed its annual survey of Japan’s top cat names, in which 839 respondents gave the names of the collective 1,694 cats they own. Yuki (meaning “Snow”)No do…
