#Japan

The World Ocean Plastic Planning Center, or “PlaPla,” is serving as a de facto educational hub for coming to grips with the severity of the plastics crisis.

Japan has 120,000 fire hydrant signs nationwide, and this trial took place near Tokyo.

Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.

For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.

Google will open its first flagship store outside the US in Tokyo's Omotesando district on June 1, 2026. The location will sell Pixel phones, Nest and Fitbit devices while offering on-site repairs, workshops and hands-on AI demonstrations.…

Japan’s plan to tighten the threshold for shareholder proposals would hurt retail investors while having little impact on institutional activist investors, said Seth Fischer, the founder of Oasis Management Co.

Japan’s 10-year government bond yield dropped after an auction of the tenor drew firm demand as investors were attracted to high yields despite the ongoing uncertainty in the Middle East.

I moved my family to Japan for a fresh start. Here are 5 ways our lives have improved in the past 3 years.

Mori Nishimura became fascinated with the Japanese countryside when he drove out to go surfing.

Finance Ministry data for the month from April 28 to Wednesday showed a total intervention of ¥11.73 trillion ($73.6 billion) over a period marked by several spikes in the yen.

A new device could allow computer processors to operate significantly faster, without generating waste heat.

Interactive visual map of Japans' railways ridership. by volume... https://anita.garden/japanrail/ submitted by /u/nomedeclure [link] [comments]

The beloved Hello Kitty shinkansen, in all its pink kawaii glory, went on its final run on May 17 after 8 years on the tracks. But after only 9 days, the shinkansen has been completely dismantled.…

Hey guys, We were in Japan last month and shipped a bunch of goods out of Japan to our home country UAE. The post office mentioned there won't be any issues with the shipment so we proceeded and paid the fee.…

Russia's U.N. ambassador had said that 'remilitarization' in Germany and Japan was a dangerous threat to global security and was undoing the results of World War II.

The government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is taking steps to improve that capability with passage of the National Intelligence Council Law.