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While many people in the world are worrying that robots will take over human jobs once artificial intelligence (AI) is fully developed, it's a safe bet that no one put "author…
TOKYO -- Japan's Hitachi plans to raise its annual research and development budget to around 500 billion yen ($4.17 billion) starting in fiscal 2016, a level comparable with rival indu…
There's a good change you might just see your favorite Nintendo characters on the big screen. Nintendo is eyeing ways to get into the film business at some point within the next five years, said…
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Edward Snowden, a fugitive and former U.S. National Security Agency contractor who leaked information from the agency in 2013, warned Saturday that all people in Japan are subjected to mass surveilla…
The Kurobe Gorge Railway runs along the full 20.1km of Kurobe Gorge, Japan's deepest V-shaped gorge, from Unazuki Station to Keyakidaira Station. The trip takes around 1 hour 20 minutes eac…
Himeji Castle (photo by Bernard Gagnon) Himeji Castle dates back almost 700 years and is the largest and most visited castle in Japan. The central tower is a monumental 5…
Ego Wrappin’ has been around for a long time. I discovered them in college in the early 2000s but they go back to 1996, which means that this year they’re celebrating their 20th anniversa…
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. has been forced to cancel a sales campaign offering customers the chance to travel with "beautiful girls" from the University of Tokyo aft…
On Friday I finally got to do something I had been wanting to do for a long time: to visit the Toyota Museum, located on the edge of Toyota (the city), near Nagoya, the 3rd biggest city in Japan. So …