Known also as "R128," the shop will be based on the first floor of the Shinjuku Marui Main Building, a department store not far from Shinjuku Station and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. I…

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Singapore remains the world’s most expensive city for the fifth consecutive year, with Paris, Zurich and Hong Kong following closely behind, according to the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey published…

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I began by asking Annesley why March historically sees such a high number of suicides in Japan. “In Japan, March comes right before the start of the new fiscal and academic year. Anxiety and fear pea…

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Atmoph is a programmable window which can display the sights and sounds of hundreds of scenic places from all over the world. It’s an exciting project, and the team attracted a great deal of early in…

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Japan is launching a Cray XC50 supercomputer for advanced nuclear fusion research, which will begin production this year. While the Cray XC50 supercomputer is far from the most powerful on the planet…

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The episodes, calm as Quaker meetings, drift along at a naturalistic pace. Three men and three women move into an elegant pad for a spell, while otherwise conducting their lives as usual. The members…

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The iconic tower of the 1970 Osaka World Expo has reopened to the public for the first time in almost 50 years, following reinforcement work.

The 70-meter-tall "Tower of the Sun" was designed by the …

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According to the Google Japan Blog (as translated by Google), by attaching a small camera to a harness on the back of three Akita dogs, Asuka, Ako and Puko, Google employees mapped out Odate City wit…

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Japan has unveiled a ‘Supreme’ prototype version of its 186 mph Shinkansen bullet train which features a sharper nose profile, power sockets for every seat, and light-up luggage racks. According to J…

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If the thought of sitting through yet another meeting fills you with dread, you’ll be happy to hear that you could pay a ‘surrogate’ to sit through it for you.

Researchers from the University of Toky…

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