Using a supercomputer, Meteorological Research Institute researchers have quantified the role of global warming in heat waves and other extreme weather events.
With a revolutionary design concept based on cost-efficiency, JAXA's H3 rocket aims to bring Japan to the forefront of the growing global space industry.
Four Chinese ships entered the area while the Senkaku Islands survey was in progress, forcing the Japan Coast Guard to surround and protect the research vessel.
A Japanese research team say a Nankai Trough megaquake is likely to be followed by other megaquakes. That means the public must be extra prepared.
What impact will the recent completion of China's space station Tiangong ("heavenly palace") have on the new space race?
Japanese researchers have discovered that a coffee compound boosts the conductivity of organic semiconductors. Could it be time for Japan to make a comeback?
A research team at Kindai University has produced 'super-female' sturgeons that only lay female eggs. We could soon be enjoying affordable caviar from Japan.
A team of researchers is using iPS cells to generate the reproductive cells of the northern white rhino, a species with only two females left on...
A new study showed that fish are not eating microplastics by accident, but are actively feeding on them, with implications for the marine plastic waste issue.
Japan's ispace aims for the moon with a radical concept: to establish a lunar courier service. Its spacecraft might become Japan's first to land on the...
OMOTENASHI failed, but the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has a history of turning initial failures into ultimate successes. Remember the Hayabusa2.
Masayuki Kurechi, only the third Japanese national to win the Ramsar Award, did not forget to credit his "beloved geese" in his acceptance speech.