Snow festival opens in Sapporo
The annual snow festival has opened in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. The 69th Sapporo Snow Festival began in the capital city of Hokkaido on Monday at the main site in Odori Park and an…
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Tokyo hosts forum on free-meal program for kids
About 200 people gathered on Sunday in Tokyo to discuss better ways of feeding children from low-income and other disadvantaged families. The subject of discussion was a free-meal prog…
A little corner of Brazil that is forever Okinawa
Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan? BBC Brasil's Leticia Mori has this report from Sao Paulo.
Japan’s space agency just launched the tiniest rocket to carry a satellite into orbit
A year after its tiny, experimental rocket failed to reach orbit a year ago, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched (via Engadget) an experimental rocket into orbit th…
New technique for early detection of Alzheimer's
Researchers in Japan say they have developed a simple technique to detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear. The National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, or NCGG, and precis…
Court: Ex-US base worker must pay damages
A court has decided that a former civilian worker at a US base in Okinawa must compensate the family of a Japanese woman he has been convicted of killing. The Naha district court on Wednesday ap…
Coincheck to be sued over digital currency theft
A group of lawyers says it is preparing a lawsuit against virtual currency exchange Coincheck in connection with the computer hack that stole a massive amount of digital currency last week. The …
Mecha Samurai Empire imagines that America lost WWII — also there are giant robots
In 2016, Peter Tieryas published his debut novel United States of Japan which ended up on our best books of the year list for 2016. Tieryas has described the influence that Philip K. Dick’s The Man i…
Xerox Is No More, Will Now Merge Into Japan's Fujifilm
Xerox, the brand that dominated the printing hardware market for decades to the point that it became a verb, has lost its independence and will now be managed by Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp.
Radioactive soil disposal method to be tested
Japan's Environment Ministry will carry out tests at 2 sites where soil generated in decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident is buried. Outside Fukushima Prefectu…