September 2026

21:32 JST

Optical Satellite Constellation: NEC's Plan for Hundreds of Laser-Linked Satellites Isn't About Catching Starlink

Technology 21:32 JST

Japan's Oriental Storks Reach 728 in the Wild, Only 49 of Them Released. Rice Paddies Made It Possible

Business & Economy 21:31 JST

Japanese Snacks Reviewed From a Ukrainian Trench: How a Soldier's Notes Became a Zine

Life & Lifestyle 03:10 JST

El Niño's $5.7 Trillion Loss Is a 1997–98 Number, and the World Bank's Estimate Was 100 Times Smaller

Technology 03:10 JST

Niigata's Abandoned Oil Wells Still Leak, and Japan's Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill

Society

05:06 JST

Little Red Dots: Simulations on Japan's ATERUI III Back the Black Hole Theory, With Caveats

Technology 05:06 JST

Double-Lambda Hypernucleus: AI Sifted the Film, Researchers Identified Only the Second One Ever

Technology 05:05 JST

Blakiston's Line: The Tree Frog That Crossed Japan's Wildlife Divide

Technology 05:04 JST

Mizuno Hyperwarp 96: The 96-Gram Super Shoe and What One Gram Really Buys

Entertainment & Culture 05:03 JST

Abenomics-Style Reflation Is Over, Says Japan's Economy Minister. The Numbers Got There First

Society 05:02 JST

Japan's CRISPR Tomato Opens Its Field: First CRISPR Food Sold to Shoppers, Not the First Gene-Edited One

Technology 05:00 JST

Japan's Ban on Under-18 Campaigning Ruled Unconstitutional, but the Plaintiffs Still Lost

Society

20:06 JST

Optical Camouflage: The Ghost in the Shell Word Behind Japan's 'Invisibility Cloak'

Technology 20:06 JST

Petabit Subsea Cable Petal: Why Meta Chose Two-Core Fiber From Japan

Technology 20:05 JST

OLED Without Iridium: Kyushu's Chihaya Adachi, Citation Laureate for Phosphorescent OLEDs and TADF

Technology 20:05 JST

Japan's Self-Driving Math: How ¥8.2 Trillion Becomes a ¥187.3 Trillion 'Economic Effect'

Technology 20:04 JST

Fox Leaves a Mole at a Japanese Doorstep: The Internet Saw a Folktale, a Mole Expert Suspects Sun-Drying

Life & Lifestyle

10:56 JST

Base Editing Fixes the One DNA Letter Behind a Disease Found in Okinawa

Technology 10:52 JST

Zero Mass, Infinite Mass? Japan's Molecular Kagome Sheet and the Bamboo Basket Behind Its Name

Technology 10:47 JST

Doggy Bags in Japan: Why the Country of 'Mottainai' Often Says No

Society 10:44 JST

Japan's Sento Bathhouses: Over 80% Gone, and Prefectures Still Cap What They Can Charge

Life & Lifestyle 10:41 JST

Wakasagi Die-Off in Hiroshima: 10,000 Fish That Were Never Supposed to Be There

Nature & Environment 10:39 JST

Tokyo's Genji Fireflies: Western Lineages in Over 70% of Populations, Likely From Releases

Technology

17:43 JST

Arctic Dinosaurs: A Japanese Climate Model Reproduces the Warm Cretaceous Pole

Technology 17:31 JST

Retinal Implant: Carbon Electrodes Shrink the Pixel to 40 Micrometers

Technology 17:30 JST

Cage-Free Eggs Taste Different: Japanese Study Maps Umami Against Creaminess

Technology 17:30 JST

Weather Control: Japan Seeds Snow Clouds to Change Where the Rain Falls

Society 17:29 JST

Japan Bookstore Profits Jump 4.6x: The Rebound Adds Up to $25.6 Million

Business & Economy 17:28 JST

Kikkoman Opens Third US Soy Sauce Plant, a $560 Million Bet on Wisconsin

Life & Lifestyle 17:27 JST

Tokyo's Population Grew by 75,018. Foreign Residents Were 83% of It

Society 06:14 JST

Tokyo Robotaxi: Japan's Driverless Law Asks for a Route and a Timetable

Society 06:13 JST

Japan's Automatic Ticket Gates Turn 60: the Short-Distance Ticket Stops Carrying Data

Technology

00:42 JST

Fields Medalists' AI Declaration: No One Said AI Should Stop Doing Math

Technology 00:42 JST

Killer T Cells Surge After Age 100: Why the Study Came Out of Japan

Society 00:41 JST

Japan's University Startups Doubled in Five Years. The Money Did Not.

Technology 00:38 JST

Mount Fuji Off-Season Rescue Fee: Who Pays for a Reckless Climb?

Society 00:38 JST

Crazy Taxi Movie and a Sonic Preschool Series: Sega and Netflix Adapt Three Games Three Ways

Entertainment & Culture

12:03 JST

Ransomware Decryption Tool Built by Japan's Police Restored 20 Million Files

Society 12:03 JST

Ig Nobel 2026: A 1977 Japanese Study on How to Blow Your Nose, 49 Years Later

Technology 12:03 JST

Rock-Paper-Scissors Caps Out at Nine Players, One Estimate Says. Thirty Need 64,201 Rounds.

Life & Lifestyle 12:01 JST

Mud Crab Breeding in Japan: Cannibalism Wasn't the Hard Part

Technology

14:36 JST

White Without Pigment: Kyoto's Foam Printing Skips Titanium Dioxide and PFAS

Technology 14:35 JST

Mercury Shrank 11.6 km: The Blind Spot in 50 Years of Measurements

Technology 14:35 JST

Koyasan Shukubo: Why a 200,000-Yen Room and a Tax Finding Landed the Same Week

Society 14:35 JST

Orexin Wins the 2026 Lasker: Why the Narcolepsy Drug Took 28 Years

Technology 14:34 JST

Deep Mantle Water: SPring-8 Traces It to the Sinking Crust

Technology 14:34 JST

Physint Moves to Xbox: Japan's Forums Questioned Kojima, Not Sony

Entertainment & Culture

18:40 JST

Suica Penguin Successor: Japan's 58% Backlash and Why It May Flip

Society 18:40 JST

Japan's Pet Market Hits $12.7 Billion as Dog Numbers Fall 1.9 Million

Business & Economy 18:38 JST

Ghost in the Shell Glitch Witch: Shirow Wrote the Script, No English Version Yet

Entertainment & Culture 17:03 JST

Culled Wildlife Disposal: Japan's 50,000-Tonne Exit Problem

Society 17:01 JST

KADOKAWA Merges 5 Anime Studios: What Studio One Base Changes for Overseas Fans

Entertainment & Culture 15:45 JST

KADOKAWA Proxy Fight: Natsuno Survives on 59.68% Support

Entertainment & Culture

02:16 JST

Magnetic Tape Is Selling Again: Fujifilm's Overlooked AI-Era Business

Technology

19:32 JST

Ryugu Nitrogen Sits Next to Salt: Why Bennu Looked 75 Times Richer

Technology 19:31 JST

CBT-I in Japan: The 20-Minute Rule, and a Door That Barely Opened

Society 19:30 JST

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Sold 1 Million on Day One, 20 Years After the Last Game

Entertainment & Culture 18:16 JST

Female Clones From Male Mice: Japan's Answer to Cloning's 58-Generation Dead End

Technology 18:15 JST

Baroque Pipe Organ in Japan: 50 Stops and Five People to Make It Sound

Society

23:08 JST

Immortal Jellyfish and iPS Cells: The Fight Over the Yamanaka Comparison

Technology 23:07 JST

Jurassic Insect Songs Reconstructed: 5 kHz, the Band Japan Has Listened to for 1,000 Years

Life & Lifestyle 23:05 JST

Sabae Megane Fes 2026: Japan's Eyewear Town Opens Its Workshops

Business & Economy 23:04 JST

Sushi Shop Bankruptcies Up 45.5% in Japan: The Middle Tier Is Vanishing

Society 23:03 JST

Vaccine Durability: Why IgG Antibodies Outlast IgM

Technology 23:03 JST

New Ammonite Genus Heterocarinella Rewrites a Cretaceous Extinction Date

Technology 23:02 JST

Pajero Revival: Why a Nameplate Moves Mitsubishi's Share Price

Technology

22:49 JST

Bird Flu and the Okinawa Rail: Japan Grows iPS Cell Mini-Brains

Technology 22:47 JST

Trump Drug Pricing: Astellas and Kyowa Kirin Sign Japan's First MFN Deals

Society 22:46 JST

Kombu DNA Study: Four Japanese Kelp Names, One Gene Pool

Technology 22:45 JST

IVF Births in Japan Hit Record 86,473: 1 in 8 Babies, Fewer Treatments

Society 22:44 JST

Jumping Genes: UTokyo Solves the Chicken-and-Egg Paradox of Bridge RNA

Technology 22:42 JST

Japanese Game News: Three Release Dates in One Night, All Pointing to 2027

Entertainment & Culture 22:42 JST

Switch 2 Price Increase Takes Effect at $499.99. Japan Went First, and the Sales Data Is In

Society 22:41 JST

The Apothecary Diaries Live-Action: Mana Ashida Calmed Japan, Jinshi Is the Open Question

Entertainment & Culture 22:40 JST

Japan's Ski Resorts: Only 7 of 349 Survive 4°C on Natural Snow, Study Finds

Society 16:32 JST

Dragon Ball Theme Park in France: Toei Says It Granted No License

Entertainment & Culture 16:31 JST

Dollar Stablecoin: 21 Banks and Asset Managers Form One Company to Enter a Market Tether Dominates

Society 16:31 JST

Watercress Is an Invasive Species in Japan: The Salad Green Choking a Matsuyama River

Society 16:31 JST

Pufferfish Can Close Their Eyes. A Japanese Aquarium Traced the Muscle to Puffing Up

Technology

12:01 JST

Saint Seiya Creator Masami Kurumada Sues Ex-Manager Over $29 Million Embezzlement

Society

21:13 JST

Tomb of Christ in Japan: The Aomori Village That Doesn't Believe Its Own Legend

Life & Lifestyle 21:07 JST

Japan Youth Survey: 35% of Singles Say They Won't Marry, but Only Half Don't Want To

Life & Lifestyle 20:40 JST

Japan's Cremation Rate Is 99.98%. In 1915 It Was 36%.

Life & Lifestyle 20:35 JST

Japanese Manufacturing Builds Failure In: Toyota's Speed Bet and Murata's $220 Million Lab

Technology 20:27 JST

Hybrid Pufferfish: How Warming Seas Rewrote Japan's Rules on Which Parts Are Edible

Society 20:06 JST

Godot's Japan Push: The CRI Middleware Deal, and What Unity, Unreal and Open Source Really Cost

Technology 18:38 JST

Land-Based Salmon Farming: Japan's Murakami Chases a World First on $32,000

Society 18:08 JST

Battery-Free Sensors: How ABLIC's CLEAN-Boost Runs on Leaking Water Alone

Technology