Happy New Year from JAPAN Forward! One week into 2019, we are sharing with you in a series the 25 most-read articles of the past 12...
It is something my wife and I look forward to: every morning we walk along the glimmering waterfront at the north end of Tokyo Bay and inspect...
By JAPAN Forward Achieving a first in international space exploration efforts, Japan landed two robots on Ryugu, a moving asteroid, on Saturday,...
By Earl Kinmonth, PhD (Part 1 of 2) Read Part 2 here Early in May, several major British newspapers carried articles summed up by...
By The Sankei Shimbun On July 24, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the creation of new foreign worker recruitment policy for Japan, set...
The Sankei Shimbun The Sony Group homes for senior citizens is now offering robot therapy using the robotic dog aibo. It hopes that...
I saw a monkey in there roaming around once and it didn’t seem out of place. That’s the only way I can effectively introduce the...
Galileo Ferrari - Tokyo On January 11--just in time for the Year of the Dog--Sony released the new AI-equipped domestic robot dog, “aibo.”...
China, a state-led economy, is making full use of structural and policy advantages over market-based economies, like the United States. As a political...
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko,54, is known as the “key person” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration. He is considered as...
At Utsuomiya University in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan’s leading producer of strawberries, a harvesting robot is being developed to pick and package strawberries without human hands...
Japan’s population decline is accelerating. Preliminary figures indicate the number of births last year will be less than one million, a sure sign that the declining...