Based on preprogrammed map information and using high performance sensors and advanced collision-avoidance algorithm, the robot can move about while staying aware of its surroundings, enabling it to …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

One of Apple's main screen suppliers, Japan Display Inc. (JDI), has revealed a 5.5-inch LCD smartphone screen that can be bent like OLED displays from Samsung and LG. While not quite as flexible and …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

Citizen science usually isn’t this personal. In 2011, roughly 65,000 Japanese citizens living near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant started measuring their own radiation exposure in…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

The new main menu features characters and recreates eating scenes from nine different series including Mobile Suit Gundam, the very first series, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, and the currently ongoing…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

Are you excited to be planning an epic tour across Japan in the coming months? Or perhaps you’re already an expert in one region of the country and are thinking of exploring some new areas. Either wa…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

Sumo is generally considered Japan’s national sport. There are currently three other yokozuna-ranked wrestlers active in sumo — Kakuryu, Harumafuji and Hakuho — all of whom were born in Mongolia. Hak…

posted by  Sergey | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

Your Name is a wonderful motion picture, and one of the best anime films I’ve ever seen. It’s also the highest grossing anime ever, which doesn’t validate it as a great film but, at least, will be so…

posted by  Sergey | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

Scott Strichart has worked on localizing and marketing fan-favorite franchises like Persona, Ni no Kuni and Final Fantasy. These days he’s heading localization efforts for the Yakuza series. We talke…

posted by  Sergey | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

I grew up eating bugs. When I would visit my grandparents in Yokohama, they used to offer me inago no tsukudani いなごの佃煮　　　　つくだに, rice grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce, as an afternoon snack. At first,…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

In 1950, Japan’s scientific community, chastened by the complicity of researchers in their nation’s disastrous military adventurism, took an extraordinary vow. “To preserve our integrity as scientist…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments