Taiwan just busted an alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling ring using Japan as a cover
Taiwan investigators are examining whether AI servers were quietly rerouted to China through a key US ally
Japan is using $4,000 animatronic wolves to scare off bears, and can't make them fast enough
Japan's answer to record bear attacks is a nightmare-inducing robotic Monster Wolves
Researchers built a switch 1,000 times faster than today's AI chips, and it barely generates any heat
University of Tokyo's antiferromagnetic spintronic switch operates at picosecond speeds
Game engines were built for video games, but Japan is finding more interesting things to do with them
Companies are using Unreal Engine and Unity to simulate floods, sell virtual kimonos, and redesign cities
This new material could make carbon capture dramatically cheaper by cutting the energy needed to run it
A Japanese team engineered carbon materials that release CO2 below 60°C – low enough to run entirely on industrial waste heat
Japan is building military drones out of cardboard, and they're faster and cheaper than you'd expect
Cardboard drones that cost $3,000 and take five minutes to assemble could change how wars are fought
Humanoid robots are coming to Japanese airports to help with luggage
In brief: It's not just the factory floor where humanoid robots are starting to appear next to flesh-and-blood employees. Air travelers in Japan will soon see the machines moving luggage and cargo – a response to the country's labor shortage and booming tourism.
Japan's bullet train to debut high-tech private cabins, for an added fee
The luxury cabins are meant to boost remote working conditions
Japan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteries
A step in the way of self-sustenance
Japan's Rapidus ramps up 2nm chip plans while eyeing factories on the Moon
With working prototypes, fresh funding, and IBM support, the company is aiming for mass production by 2027
This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected
Highly anticipated: A team in Japan has developed a Wi-Fi receiver capable of operating in the extreme radiation inside nuclear reactors, an advance that could help robotics teams safely decommission aging power plants. The receiver, developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, demonstrated resilience under radiation doses roughly 1,000 times higher than what typical electronics can withstand.
Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers
Ports and seawater cause fewer problems than onshore AI facilities
Scientists find all five genetic building blocks for life in asteroid Ryugu
Did life originate in space before seeding primordial Earth?
Panasonic exits TV manufacturing, hands production to Skyworth
The move effectively ends Japan's long history of television manufacturing
Low-noise microwave amplifiers bring quantum computers closer to scale
Cleaner signals need not come at the expense of accessibility
Suddenly Toto's most valuable business isn't toilets, but chipmaking ceramics
Japanese toilet maker's advanced ceramics have become a key piece of cryogenic etch in AI memory fabs
New ISO standard enables battery-free RFID sensors to stream continuous data
A novel approach for building a sustainable and reliable "ambient IoT"
Kawasaki unveils world's first gas engine fueled by a 30% hydrogen blend
Japan's engineers aim to decarbonize by blending hydrogen into existing natural gas systems
Legends of Tech: Nintendo Entertainment System
Before the NES, home consoles were a burned market in the US. Nintendo reversed that narrative with games that turned consoles into a global industry again.
Hiroshima scientists crack the code for 3D printing tungsten carbide
Novel "softening" method reshapes one of the world's hardest materials without melting it
As Roblox embraces text-to-world tools, Japanese creatives brace for fallout
The gulf between enthusiasm in Silicon Valley and anxiety in Tokyo is widening fast
This gaming PC uses smart glass to switch between transparent and opaque panels
From showroom to stealth mode
Pepper spray drones are Japan's newest tool against bear attacks
A response to rising encounters and record fatalities
Blu-ray turns 20 years old: The optical disc that refuses to fade away
Blu-ray was the future of home video, once
This open-source tool uses AI to translate Japanese retro games on the fly
Interpreter uses OCR and an LLM to offer offline AI translation