The Japanese government is set to green-light robot delivery services using public roads, with the aim of starting operations in 2021. This was revealed...
On July 5, Yuriko Koike, the first female governor of Tokyo, won re-election by a wide margin. As widely reported, she received 3,661,371 votes, compared...
(Feature Photo: Baseball: the 2020 Nippon pro baseball season has started.) The clock is ticking. MLB owners and the Major League Baseball...
Having succeeded in curbing the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country, Taiwan lifted its limits on large-scale gatherings, such as concerts...
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...
Toyota Motors and NTT Communications have agreed to join hands in developing the infrastructure for a next-generation, highly energy-efficient “smart city,” using information technology (IT)...
In robot-loving Japan, automation is changing the landscape of everyday life. Robot shop clerks greet perusing customers, and automatons take latte orders. Lonely residents, on the other hand, are looking...
Tokyo’s newest train station, the Takanawa Gateway Station, will open on Saturday, March 14, promising to showcase an abundance of futuristic technology. Sited on...
Recently there has been much debate on the pros and cons of accepting a large number of foreign workers to accommodate growing labor shortages attributed...
The Japanese space agency announced on Friday morning, February 22, that its spacecraft Hayabusa2 — whose mission is to help unlock the secrets of...
Governor Yuriko Koike is set on her plans for a prosperous Tokyo leading up to and beyond the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. ...