Japan started collecting a ¥1,000 departure tax Monday from each traveler leaving the country in an effort to fund measures to attract more foreign visitor | Continue reading
Just days into the new year, Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his country's military to improve its combat readiness and prepare for the possibilit | Continue reading
Deep in the bedrock 15 stories below the famous Grand Central Terminal, a cavernous construction site is slowly — and expensively — taking shap | Continue reading
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The copyright period on works such as novels and paintings in Japan is set to be extended to 70 years after the authors' deaths, from the current 50 years, | Continue reading
Houseflies, the Soviet space program and manned missions to Mars — these aren't plot devices for a Cold War space thriller, but key terms to understand the | Continue reading
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Superrealistic plastic face masks produced by a firm in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, have recently attracted attention at home and abroad, from facial-recogniti | Continue reading
Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and 100 yūrei-moji — literally, "ghost characters" — haunting the Japanese kanji lexicon. | Continue reading
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, awoke on the morning of July 18, 1940, to a disturbing sight. He peered through the curtains of his | Continue reading
Astronomers peering billions of light-years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of galaxies ever registered in the early days o | Continue reading
Road traffic in Japan is a complicated affair. Apart from those narrow, crooked streets that sometimes end without warning, you have to get used to unclear right-of-way rules and the national fetish for backward parking. | Continue reading
The Chinese military has sent fighter planes and bombers to conduct live-fire exercises at a range in the disputed South China Sea, state broadcaster CCTV | Continue reading
The United States sailed a warship near two of China's man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, the latest in a series of recent moves b | Continue reading
A pair of tiny robots released by the Hayabusa2 space probe touched down Saturday on an asteroid 300 million km from Earth, JAXA said. The cylinder-shaped | Continue reading
The National Police Agency plans to conduct experiments in fiscal 2019 on the use of artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of investigations, i | Continue reading
California lawmakers on Friday sent to the governor for final approval strict "net neutrality" laws that would defy sweeping Federal Communications Commiss | Continue reading
Americans enjoy the dubious distinction of having a high degree of linguistic diversity it comes to mocking the smart and the educated. | Continue reading
Americans enjoy the dubious distinction of having a high degree of linguistic diversity it comes to mocking the smart and the educated. | Continue reading
Americans enjoy the dubious distinction of having a high degree of linguistic diversity it comes to mocking the smart and the educated. | Continue reading
There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn't reach her quota. Then there's the exhausted designer who c | Continue reading
China's military will for the first time participate with Russia in massive joint exercises that are expected to be the largest war games since the fall of | Continue reading
A unit of Hitachi Ltd. will launch a new venture that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the leftovers of carefully planned hospital meals to ensure p | Continue reading
Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, offic | Continue reading
'Is solitude an illness?" The Asahi Shimbun raised the question in an op-ed feature last month. Or is it an intensified form of health — a view that | Continue reading
'Is solitude an illness?" The Asahi Shimbun raised the question in an op-ed feature last month. Or is it an intensified form of health — a view that | Continue reading
'Is solitude an illness?" The Asahi Shimbun raised the question in an op-ed feature last month. Or is it an intensified form of health — a view that | Continue reading
Few corners of the tech industry are as tantalizing or complex as quantum computing. For years its evangelists have promised machines capable of breaking t | Continue reading
With thousands of Airbnb reservations scrapped and Uber reduced to delivering food, life is hard in Japan for the giants of the sharing economy: They're st | Continue reading
Sony Corp. started accepting advance orders Thursday in Japan for its new artificial intelligence-equipped Aibo robot dog, making it possible for every wou | Continue reading
Japan Display Inc. said Wednesday it will expand its business portfolio by launching new products for consumers, aiming to maximize the advantage of its te | Continue reading
The city of Iga, in Mie Prefecture, has been left fighting off wannabe ninja after a news report on local labor shortages that suggested it wanted to hire | Continue reading
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At the heart of the spread of fake news are the algorithms used by search engines, websites and social media, which are often accused of pushing false or m | Continue reading
In the first known case of its kind, U.S. drug agents supplied unwitting cocaine-trafficking suspects in California with smartphones they thought were encr | Continue reading
Dear Alice, I was a bit of a car nut when I was a boy, and while I've moved on to other interests, my eyes still tend to be drawn to automobiles. This is w | Continue reading
California utility PG&E Corp. has proposed using giant lithium-ion batteries, including packs supplied by Tesla Inc., to supply power to Silicon Valley | Continue reading
A Chinese firm has developed a laser gun designed for police use that can set fire to protesters' hair or banners from a range of almost one kilometer. The | Continue reading
It is not an uncommon fate for a pioneering scientist: languishing unrecognized during his time and then dying in obscurity. But on his 200th birthday, the | Continue reading
The World Health Organization says compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition — a move that some critics warn ma | Continue reading
On May 3, 1946, the indictments were read at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Among the defendants was a gangly, bespectacled, 59-year-old civilian named Shumei Okawa, who happened to be seated directly behind the former prime minister, army Gen. Hideki Tojo. | Continue reading
California officials bucked a recent court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee drinkers that their fix won't give them cancer. The un | Continue reading
Suicide rates inched up in nearly every U.S. state from 1999 through 2016, according to a new government report released Thursday. More than half of suicid | Continue reading
Workers will benefit from a guaranteed interval between each day’s work and the next, but the plan did not specify how long the break must be. | Continue reading
A couple's private conversation was mysteriously recorded by their Amazon Echo device and sent to one of their contacts, igniting privacy concerns about th | Continue reading
Keio University opened a research hub Thursday that can access IBM Corp.'s cutting-edge quantum computer system through the internet, with the aim of study | Continue reading
Keio University opened a research hub Thursday that can access IBM Corp.'s cutting-edge quantum computer system through the internet, with the aim of study | Continue reading
Keio University opened a research hub Thursday that can access IBM Corp.'s cutting-edge quantum computer system through the internet, with the aim of study | Continue reading