A Moon clock gains about 56 microseconds a day on Earth clocks, about 17 km of navigation error per day if uncorrected. The CGPM's lunar time draft seeks one reference scale and never mentions optical clocks.
After a suspected core member was sent from Osaka to Germany, Qilin called Japan's security among the world's worst, without evidence. Japan's new reporting law is narrower than the EU's NIS2.
Uniqlo's owner hit 3.9633 trillion yen ($25.1 billion) and passed H&M. The weak yen inflated its growth, not its rank. The risks now: China, tariffs, wages, succession, and a Zara owner still 1.8 times bigger.
Hong Kong's SCMP reports that Trump asked Xi to lift China's export curbs on Japan, citing a threat to US industry. In July, China's magnet exports to Japan fell 52.2% while US shipments rose 4.6%.
A guide dog user in Japan was turned down by more than 100 rentals. The law bans refusals in public housing but only asks private landlords to try. How the US and UK handle the same case.
MARVEL | KADOKAWA plans a Shibuya-set Spider-Man manga for 2026, detailed the day Shueisha's 14 Marvel volumes left e-book stores. The story goes back to a 1978 giant robot.
Niitsu in Niigata was Japan's top oil field a century ago. Oil still seeps from old wells whose pipes no one can find, and taxpayers fund the cleanup, unlike in Alberta, where the industry pays.
Minoru Kiuchi, Japan's economy minister and long seen as a reflationist, says Abenomics-style reflation is over. The BOJ was already at 1.25%. Yet Japan still hasn't declared deflation over.
Meta's 7,000 km US-France cable Petal targets 1 petabit per second in 2029, built by NEC and Sumitomo. Labs reach 19 cores, so why two? Repeater power.
About 10,400 wakasagi, a cold-water smelt never native to Haizuka Dam, died amid heat and drought in Hiroshima. Nobody knows who brought them, and Japan's invasive species law does not cover fish moved within Japan.
Seven in ten Japanese bookstore companies were profitable in fiscal 2025, but only 13.4% grew both sales and profit, on a 0.6% margin. What lifted the numbers, and why bookshops are multiplying in the US and Britain.
Kikkoman's third US soy sauce plant has opened in Jefferson, Wisconsin, a $560 million investment. Fifty-five years after a village voted 54 to 14 on the first one, North America now supplies two-thirds of group profit.
GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu want driverless taxis in Tokyo in 2027. Japan has had a permit regime since 2023, but the permits granted so far cover fixed lines: a 2 km cart route, a 700 m shuttle, a busway.
A 1977 paper by two Japanese ENT doctors, from airflow readings on 15 men, said to blow one nostril at a time. It won the 2026 Ig Nobel medicine prize 49 years later, at a ceremony that had left the US for Zurich.
A new Ghost in the Shell manga launched on Yanmaga Web on September 9, and Kodansha credits Masamune Shirow with the script and character design, not just the concept. No English version has been announced.
A team from Osaka, Okayama and Tokyo has found why IgG antibodies outlast IgM. After mRNA vaccination, spike-specific cells were 0.14% of the long-lived bone marrow compartment, against 7.3% for influenza.
Japan's NIES has made iPS cells from four endangered birds. The flightless Okinawa rail has lost one of the two genes birds use to spot a virus. Inside the minus-160°C cell bank and the brain organoids grown from it.
Astellas and Kyowa Kirin are the first Japanese drugmakers to sign most-favored-nation pricing deals with Washington. A September 29 tariff deadline explains the timing, and Japanese prices sit inside the U.S. formula.
A University of Tokyo and Arc Institute team has shown how the IS621 jumping gene cuts itself out of an E. coli genome, resolving a chicken-and-egg puzzle that had stood since 2024.
The Switch 2 hit $499.99 in the US on September 1. Japan raised its price three months earlier, and Famitsu's numbers show a rush to 712,000 units in May, then 100,166 in June, with July still under April.