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 directly …

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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 manufacturing housing equi…

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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 money …

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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 heard by mo…

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Five men accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl have been acquitted of sexual assault because the victim was in an “unconscious state”.
Sexual assault under Spanish law is the equivalent of rape a…

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Oki Sato explains how Nendo's chair for Fritz Hansen follows circular design principles, in this exclusive video filmed by Dezeen at the Japanese design studio's office in Milan.
The release of the c…

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With the Rugby World Cup taking place in Japan, players have been asked to wear long sleeve tops when they use public gyms or swimming pools as tattoos can be associated with organized crime in Japan…

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In Japan today, only a handful of artists still practice "ukiyo-e," the printing method used to produce Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
Source: CNN

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Marathon runners will swap sweltering Tokyo for the cooler climes of northern Japan in the 2020 Olympics, and the capital city’s governor isn’t happy about it.
The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were …

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For far, far too long people have been willfully blind to the moral costs of doing business in China.
Instead, globalization and economic integration have become tools of Chinese soft power; trade ha…

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