August 2026

02:18 JST

Bear Launcher Kintaro: Five Years to Build, and the Inventor Tested It on Himself

Society 02:18 JST

Aircraft-Washing Robot at Narita: JAL Calls Its Swedish AW3 a First for a Japanese Carrier

Technology 02:17 JST

DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite: CAVE's Bid to Widen Bullet Hell Runs Into Mostly Negative Steam Reviews

Entertainment & Culture 02:17 JST

Hormuz Bypass Routes: Seven Pipelines and Japan's Oil Supply, Six Months On

Society 02:16 JST

Fist of the North Star Basket Bug: Developer Explains the Gravity That Backfired

Entertainment & Culture 02:15 JST

Desalination Brine Mining: Japan's Molten Tin Route to Magnesium

Technology

15:21 JST

Esophageal Cancer Virus Therapy: Telomelysin Goes on Sale in Japan at $58,000

Technology 15:21 JST

Hafnium Production: Japan Targets 2028 in a 71-Tonne-a-Year World Market

Technology 15:19 JST

Dating App as a Company Benefit: Why Toyota and NTT Foot the Bill

Society 15:19 JST

Solar Panel Purchase Subsidy Ends in Japan: Tokyo Bets 2027 Budget on Perovskite

Society

01:34 JST

Surrogate Broodstock: Japan's 20-Year Push to Make a Mackerel Spawn Bluefin Tuna

Technology 01:32 JST

Rare Earth Squeeze: Japan's Comebacks, and the Industry That Never Came Back

Society 01:32 JST

Interceptor Drone Terra B1: Japan Went From Tender to Production Contract in Three Months

Society

05:05 JST

PFAS-Removing Bacteria in an Osaka River: Why 17.8% Matters More Than 97%

Technology 05:04 JST

Glasses in Japan: No Prescription Needed, Ready the Same Day

Society 05:04 JST

SUSHI BUS: Tokyo's Conveyor-Belt Sushi Double-Decker Debuts in October 2026

Life & Lifestyle 05:03 JST

Rakuten's Defense Drone Deal: Why Three Japanese Shops Left the Marketplace

Society 04:54 JST

Japan's Russia Sanctions Dilemma: Takaichi Backs Ukraine, Keeps Buying Russian LNG

Society 04:40 JST

One Piece Film BAAD: 5 Japanese Fan Theories on the Mystery Title

Entertainment & Culture

23:46 JST

Flehmen Face: 13 Fatty Acids May Be the Chemical Calling Card in Cat Urine

Life & Lifestyle 23:46 JST

Shinto Shrine vs Buddhist Temple: What Shrines Really Mean in Japan

Life & Lifestyle 23:46 JST

SNK Entertainment Dissolved: Why It Barely Touches Metal Slug or KOF

Entertainment & Culture 23:45 JST

Cool Japan Fund Set to Wind Down: Japan Sets a 20 Trillion Yen Content Export Target

Society 23:44 JST

Phobos Sample Return: Japan's MMX Launches October 20 on an H3 Rocket

Technology 23:43 JST

Underwater Acoustic AI: NEC and Japan's Defense Agency Are Building an LLM for the Ocean

Society 02:01 JST

Human Hibernation for Space Travel: How Far the Science Has Actually Come

Technology 01:58 JST

Mechanical Engineering Heritage 2026: Japan Picks Six Items Worth Keeping

Life & Lifestyle 01:57 JST

Sapphire Sand: Japan's Low-Cost Earthquake Fix for Warehouse Floors

Society 01:51 JST

Senolytics Replication: Japanese Labs Find No Effect, Original Team Pushes Back

Technology 01:50 JST

Anime Production Market Hits Record $2.56 Billion, and Could Peak in 2026

Entertainment & Culture 01:47 JST

Tekken 7's Leadership Trio Reunites: Kohei Ikeda Joins Harada's SNK-Backed VS Studio

Entertainment & Culture 01:46 JST

ispace and Mitsubishi Heavy Book a Whole H3 Rocket for the ULTRA Lunar Lander

Technology 01:45 JST

Pacific Bluefin Tuna Quota Rises 25%: What Japan Won, and What Conservationists Watch

Society 01:44 JST

Iwakuni White Snakes: 281 Deaths in a Year, the Most Since 2009

Life & Lifestyle

19:37 JST

Artificial Hibernation: Half the Synapses Vanish, the Memory Stays

Technology 19:37 JST

Japan Tax-Free Shopping: Refund Method Starts November 2026

Society 19:36 JST

Kingdom Hearts IV Will Not Be Delayed, Its Directors Promise at Disney's D23

Entertainment & Culture

17:46 JST

Meteorite Sword: Where Enomoto's Five Ryuseito Blades Ended Up

Life & Lifestyle 17:45 JST

Chiikawa Movie Box Office Hits 8.07 Billion Yen as Cinema Giveaways Drive Repeat Viewing

Entertainment & Culture 17:42 JST

Fecal Transplant Cures Toddler: Japan's First Pediatric C. diff Case

Technology 17:39 JST

Cats on Japan's Invasive Species List: Government Reverses Plan After Public Backlash

Society 17:37 JST

GaN Patent Lawsuit: Navitas Sues Renesas Over SuperGaN as AI Power Chip Fight Widens

Technology 16:52 JST

Japan's Cat Exam: 40,000 Have Taken the Neko Kentei, 10th Edition Set for 2027

Life & Lifestyle 16:49 JST

Metaplanet's 5,014 BTC Transfer: Why Japan's Biggest Corporate Bitcoin Holder Had to Deny Selling

Society 16:44 JST

Sony TSMC Image Sensor Venture: $4.7 Billion in Kumamoto, Two Weeks After a Quake

Technology

22:29 JST

Is Esports a Sport? Calories Barely Move, Heart Rate Hits 137 bpm

Technology 22:28 JST

Nishinoshima: DNA Points to Seabirds as the Carriers of the Island's Plants

Technology 22:28 JST

Japan's Fish Catch Hits Record Low as World Output Peaks: the Quota Problem

Society 22:27 JST

Kirin Buys Jamieson Wellness: Why a Japanese Brewer Bet C$2.5 Billion on Vitamins

Business & Economy 22:26 JST

H3 Rocket Puts Michibiki 7 in Orbit, but Japan's GPS Independence Slips to the 2030s

Society 22:25 JST

Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: 70% of Under-40 Cases Carry a Gut Toxin's Mark

Technology

21:22 JST

Asteroid Brine Found in the Meteorite That Crashed Through a New Jersey Roof

Technology 21:15 JST

Japan's Oldest Train in Regular Service: Hakone's 107-Year-Old Railcar, Windows Open

Travel 21:14 JST

Japanese Mayonnaise Goes Global. In India, the Egg Yolk Is the Problem

Life & Lifestyle 21:08 JST

Japan's Food Self-Sufficiency Falls to a Record-Low 37% Despite a Bigger Rice Harvest

Society 21:01 JST

Super Monkey Ball Scores Track Surgical Skill, but Splatoon 2 Does Not

Technology 20:55 JST

AI Content Licensing: Japan's Telecoms Pay Publishers Two Ways

Society 20:46 JST

Beetle Bounty: Japan Pays 300 Yen a Bug to Save Its Cherry Trees

Society 20:41 JST

Geothermal Turbine Droplets Filmed at 430 m/s: The Lab Rules Did Not Hold

Technology

20:00 JST

Magnetic Aerobraking: Japan Reaches 1.58 Tesla in a 7 km/s Wind Tunnel Test

Technology 19:59 JST

Japan Design Bankruptcies Hit 14-Year High: AI Is One of Three Causes

Society 19:58 JST

Sauna Train SADEN: Japan's First Sauna in a Retired Rail Car, and the Blue Train That Stays

Life & Lifestyle 19:58 JST

Japan FSA Launches Crypto and Stablecoin Division: Blockchain Did Not Make the Name

Society 19:56 JST

Kioxia XL1: Flash Memory Over CXL to Ease the AI DRAM Shortage

Technology 19:56 JST

Semi-Domestic Humanoid Robot D1: Japan's ZEALS Opens Orders at $32,000

Technology 00:55 JST

Gyaru Tomie x Hello Kitty: Junji Ito Figure Caps First Preorders, Second Round Open

Entertainment & Culture 00:54 JST

Einstein Tile in the Lab: Japan Etches the 'Hat' Monotile and Gets a Pinwheel of Light

Technology 00:54 JST

Why Japan Revives Old Car Names: Trademarks, EVs and a 1988 US Law

Technology 00:53 JST

Late-Onset Psychosis: Tau Found in Two-Thirds of Patients in Japanese PET Study

Technology 00:49 JST

Japan's Food Exports Hit a Record $5.7 Billion in H1 2026, and Nearly Half the Growth Is the Weak Yen

Society

23:58 JST

Photonic Quantum Computer MoQuren Goes Live in Japan: No Refrigerator, No Vacuum Chamber

Technology 23:57 JST

Vim Sengoku Strategy Game: 41 Provinces and 256 Generals Inside a Text Editor

Technology 23:56 JST

Japan's Humid Heat: Why Three Lions Died at a Tokyo Zoo

Society 23:56 JST

Fukushima's Cesium Balls: Earthworms May Be Carrying Them Underground

Technology

01:11 JST

Wasabi for Sensitive Teeth: Tokyo Researchers Get Cells to Rebuild Dentin

Technology 01:05 JST

Surprise Yen Intervention: BOJ Holds at 1% as Ueda Warns of Inflation Overshoot

Society 01:04 JST

Japan's First Tomahawk Launch: What the Chokai Test Actually Changed

Society 01:01 JST

GCAP Engine Demonstrator Nears Ground Testing: The Flying Power Station Japan Helped Design

Society 01:00 JST

Parkinson's iPS Cell Therapy: First Commercial Transplant Set for October in Kyoto

Technology 00:58 JST

Japan AI Privacy Law: Consent Waived for AI Training, in a Design No One Else Uses

Society 00:47 JST

Donkey Kong Bananza QA: How Nintendo Turned Its Best Bugs Into Features

Entertainment & Culture 00:46 JST

Rabbit Island Boars Hunt Live Rabbits: Okunoshima Study Points to Tourist Feeding

Travel

21:07 JST

Four Colors From One Material: A Terbium LED That Could Skip Micro LED's Hardest Step

Technology 21:06 JST

Crystalline OLED: Lining Up Molecules Raised Current 1,000-Fold

Technology 21:06 JST

Hospital Drain Biofilm: Japanese Study Finds Resistance Genes Switched On

Technology 20:07 JST

Skeletal Editing: Chemists Cut Inside a Molecule to Build New Chiral Nanocarbons

Technology