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 basis from th…

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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 in Milton …

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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 temp…

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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.
"This i…

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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 CHALLENGING- MY FAKE…

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Stripe’s Japan market entry did not go according to plan.

Things worked out worked out well in the end, but they did not go according to plan. Stripe is one of the world’s largest payment processing …

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A good example of that is the software’s most recent update, which uses artificial intelligence to translate Japanese text to English with the press of a button.
Some months later, and here we are — …

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More recently, Toyota invested $500 million in Uber to jointly develop self-driving cars, deepening its existing partnership with the ride-sharing company.
And it worked with CALTY Design Research in…

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The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, pictured in 2009.
In the densely packed Tokyo neighborhood of Shinbashi, one building stands out from all the others: the 13-story Nakagin Capsule Tower, completed…

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So right about now I should be embarking upon a what appears to have become a traditional “My Thoughts on the Current Anime Season” article.
AdvertisementSo this season, I’m as usual following a bunc…

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