No Place Like Japan for Wind Power
TOKYO – There is no place like Japan for wind power makers. Thanks to a highly incentivized tariff system and abundant air currents, the country is fast becoming an industry mecca. Some might call it...
View ArticleSoapless Bathing Coming to a Tub Near You
TOKYO – Advances in the art of getting clean could mean that picking the right bar soap may soon no longer be a problem. In fact, there won’t be any need for soap at all. Such are the hopes of...
View ArticleJapanese Consumers Are ‘High’ on Cannabis Oil
TOKYO – Despite living in a country with tough marijuana laws, Japanese consumers are nevertheless getting increasingly ‘high’ on cannabis oil. Researchers at Arthur Corporation are hoping that the...
View ArticleDoctors Prescribe the Wearable Chair
TOKYO – Sitting down on the job may actually be the best way to get things done after all. And who’s to argue if the doctor prescribes it? For designers at Yokohama-based machinery firm Nitto, hopes...
View Article‘Old School’ Coolers Catching On in Japan
TOKYO – ‘Old school’ cooling technology has gotten a reboot in Japan, and proving that the best way to help the masses survive the heat may mean simply scaling up a tried-and-true idea. Portacool Japan...
View ArticleOne Listing Site to Rule Them All…
TOKYO – While the explosion in e-commerce has made buying and selling goods online remarkably relatively easy in recent years, it has also created a dilemma: how to register a product with more than...
View ArticleHydrogen for Health: the Next Fountain of Youth?
TOKYO – Japan is going crazy over hydrogen, and it’s not just for fueling futuristic cars. A growing number of people think it may be the next fountain of youth. The smallest and most fundamental...
View ArticleTaming the African Wild Watermelon
TOKYO – In his 1894 novel Pudd’nhead Wilson, American author Mark Twain wrote of the watermelon: “When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat.” More than a century later, researchers at...
View ArticleIs Japan at Risk Losing the Drone War?
TOKYO – Japan may be at serious risk of losing out in the international competition for the booming commercial drone market. The main reason? Experts blame the country’s archaic laws that restrict...
View ArticleLEDs Help to Reinvent the Sun Dial
TOKYO (JPN) – If LED technology can reinvent the incandescent light bulb, should it be a surprise if it reinvents the clock, too? Inventors at Japanese consumer tech product maker Epora think the...
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