Codenamed the "NX," Nintendo said the new video game console will be a "brand-new concept." Nintendo plans to launch the NX globally in March 2017. And that's pretty much all Nint…

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La Malle de Bois is, in fact, the name of a new Japanese train that began traversing the rails of the Setouchi region this April. French for “wooden suitcase,” the travel-themed train connects Okayam…

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AUSTRALIA may be developing a lead in the field of agricultural robots - or 'agbots' as they are becoming known through the work of companies such as Swarm Farm in Queensland - but Japan has an advan…

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Since around 2000, cafes called "maid cafe" have opened in Akihabara and more recently a few in Shinjuku plus others in major Japanese cities like Osaka and some others around the world. In…

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TOKYO -- In a bid to nurture new businesses, the government plans to allow the use of drones for home delivery services within three years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. According to sources, the …

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??????????(??) Walking from Kyushu to Honshu. At the closest point, the islands of Kyushu and Honshu are a mere 700 meters apart. The narrow channel called Kanmon Straits is a very busy waterway with…

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From today, April 4, the new bus terminal close the Shinjuku station’s south exit is open for travelers!

People preferring high way buses to go through Japan, can access the new bus terminal in a

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Right now, robots are perfectly capable of speech through electronic loudspeakers, but somehow we're instinctively able to tell wether speech is genuine, or pre-recorded. So, the next step in human-r…

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Right now, the New Economic Summit (NEST) 2016 conference is going on in Tokyo, Japan. One of the keynote speakers is Andy Rubin. Rubin was in charge of Google's robotics program in 2013, when the co…

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More than 2-million foreign travelers visited Japan in March, the highest number ever for a single month. The amount of money they spend in the country is also increasing.

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