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Suzuki said Tuesday it has agreed to jointly start producing “flying cars” with Japanese start-up SkyDrive around the spring of 2024 as it aims to take the lead in the growing industry. From a report: Flying cars are a type of aircraft with the ability… Continue reading Suzuki and SkyDrive To Jointly Start Producing ‘Flying Cars’ in 2024
A government panel in Japan drew up a set of regulations aimed at opening up the smartphone app stores of U.S. technology giants Apple and Google to competition. From a report: The two companies dominating the smartphone operating system market will be… Continue reading Japan To Open Up Apple and Google App Stores To Competition
Japan’s government on Tuesday adopted a revision to the country’s plans to use more hydrogen as fuel as part of the effort to reduce carbon emissions. From a report: The plan sets an ambitious target to increase the annual supply by six times from the … Continue reading Japan Earmarks $107 Billion for Developing Hydrogen Energy To Cut Emissions, Stabilize Supplies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Japan has extended its natural disaster preparations to vending machines, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major earthquake or typhoon. Two machines have been installed in the… Continue reading Japan Vending Machines To Automatically Offer Free Food If Earthquakes Hit
Japanese company PowerX is moving ahead with its strange plan to build a “mobile power station” in the form of a 140-meter (460-ft) electric “battery tanker,” which will carry 241 megawatt-hours of renewable energy across the sea over short distances.C… Continue reading Bizarre 460-foot “battery tanker” set to ship electrons by 2026
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wre… Continue reading IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge
Beer from a can just ain’t the same as beer from a tap, and a lot of it’s about the foam. The Japanese take their beer foam pretty seriously, it would seem, and a design team reckons it’s worked out how to deliver the perfect pour using an extra tab.Co… Continue reading Dual-tab beer can targets the perfect pour
Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining for gold, fungi are craftier than we give them credit for. Now researchers in Japan have studied how forest mushrooms communicate with each other, and found that they’re mostly chatty when it rains.C… Continue reading Forest fungi overheard talking to each other after rain showers
Japan’s attempt to put a privately-owned spacecraft on the Moon appears to have ended in failure. Scheduled to land in the Mare Frigoris region at 16:40 GMT, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander lost contact with Mission Control in Nihonbashi, Tokyo shortly b… Continue reading Japan’s Hakuto-R Moon landing ends in silence
Japanese startup ispace assumed failure in its attempt to make the first private moon landing on Tuesday as engineers struggled to regain contact with the company’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander long after it was due for a lunar touchdown. From a repo… Continue reading Japan’s Ispace Assumes Failure in Bid To Make First Commercial Moon Landing