The Tottori Sand Dunes share similarities with some areas of the moon, making them an ideal testing site for lunar rovers and other technologies.
Autonomous robots could play a crucial role in constructing a lunar base, which would be indispensable for sustaining human activity.
ispace failed in its bid to become the first private company to land a craft on the moon, but it gained crucial data for future explorations.
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...
The last time a planetary eclipse lined up with a lunar eclipse was in 1580, when the legendary Oda Nobunaga was vying with samurai rivals for...
On November 8, Tokyoites gathered on the Roppongi Hills Sky Deck to observe the moon in a rare type of lunar eclipse the country hadn't seen...
The private sector can harness the technology for intercontinental high-speed passenger transportation by around 2040.
The total eclipse of the supermoon on May 26 will be visible throughout Japan, weather permitting, and around much of the Pacific region, including Australia and...
The Japanese and United States governments announced in July a joint declaration for cooperation in the U.S.-led Artemis manned lunar probe project, bringing closer to...
You might have heard of ohanami, the wonderfully decadent practice of admiring cherry blossoms in the spring. But have you heard of otsukimi? Japan, in...
Toyota Motor Corporation will undertake a program aimed at developing a fuel cell-powered vehicle capable of traveling more than 10,000 kilometers sequentially on the moon’s...
