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Articles Innovative Japanese Preschool is Built to Encourage Puddle-Jumping Rafi SchwartzJun 24, 2015
Articles Japan's Mixed-Heritage Beauty Queen Is on a Mission to End Racism Tasbeeh HerweesMay 14, 2015
Articles Japan Unveils A Pair Of Massive, High-Efficiency, Floating Solar Power Plants What’s big, “green,” and able to provide clean power for almost a thousand people?Rafi Schwartz24 Apr, 2015
Articles After Destroying the City Multiple Times, Godzilla Is Named Tokyo’s “Tourism Ambassador” The “King Of All Monsters” is given honorary residency in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward in exchange for bringing in the tourists.Rafi Schwartz10 Apr, 2015
Articles Artist Mariko Mori Uncovers Parallel Universes With New Show One of the biggest art stars in Japan brings her intergalactic sculptures to NYC’s Sean Kelly Gallery.Laura Feinstein26 Mar, 2015
Articles Japan’s Underemployed are Forced to Live in Internet Cafes Japan’s internet cafe refugees are a symptom of a larger labor issue.Isis Madrid13 Mar, 2015
Design How Over 90,000 Photos Were Salvaged From the 2011 Japan Tsunami Imaging and electronicS company Ricoh helped return 90,000 photos to their owners.Tasbeeh Herwees12 Mar, 2015
Articles Japanese City Will Pay for Women to Freeze Their Eggs Many in Japan are willing to try just about anything to reverse their nation’s tanking birth ratesMark Hay12 Mar, 2015
Articles Meet the Robot Bear Who Will Care for Japan’s Elderly “Robear” is three-hundred pounds of high-tech robotics, designed to help get people in and out of bed.Rafi Schwartz25 Feb, 2015
Articles This Japanese Robot Will Dispense Whole Tomatoes Into Your Mouth While You Run An 18 pound humanoid robot that perches on the shoulders of runners and feeds them.Isis Madrid25 Feb, 2015
Articles Tokyo Without The Advertisements Is Hauntingly Beautiful French Artist Nicolas Damiens created a series of GIFs that re-imagine a sign-less Japan.Laura Feinstein10 Feb, 2015
Articles Why I Can’t Wait for Japan’s 2020 Robolympics We may be on the verge of a robo-sports revolution.Mark Hay21 Jan, 2015
Articles Don’t Get Mad … But Your Anger May Not Have Much To Do With Your Health A new study shows that Asian societies do not experience the same anger-poor health link prevalent among Western populationsIsis Madrid13 Jan, 2015
Articles Japanese Artist Arrested for Her Vagina Art, Again Japanese authorities apparently aren’t as inspired by female genitalia as Megumi Igarashi.Caroline Pham05 Dec, 2014
Articles VIDEO: Japan's Underground Bicycle Garages Are Amazing Proving yet again that necessity is the mother of invention, Japan's lack of space has led to the implementation of vast underground bike parking.Pete(R) Karinen13 Jun, 2013
Articles Real Humans as Customer Service: Why Japan Has the Best Public Transportation If you've traveled at all, chances are you've had that uncomfortable moment of trying to navigate a foreign city's public transportation system.Yasha Wallin15 May, 2013
Articles Beer as Unifier: The Tipsy Portland-Sapporo Connection An entire ocean may separate them, but Portland and Japan have more in common than you’d think.oka_rebelmouse17 Apr, 2013