China's BYD is crashing Japan's tiny kei car party with the Racco. It's a 112-mile-range, $16,500 electric shoebox. Will it ...

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Researchers at a Japanese university have developed a system that uses artificial intelligence to determine the possibility of encountering a bear within 1 sq km (0.4 square miles), a critical new ...

This humble rice paddle may look simple, but it’s surprisingly indispensable. Made in Japan from durable melamine, its textured surface keeps sticky rice from clinging, making scooping and serving ...

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The Ishigaki city assembly in Okinawa Prefecture recently passed a resolution to ascertain whether children of elementary and junior high school age were taught the “Kimigayo” national anthem in class ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines and left even more people missing as it moved on to slam Vietnam As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now ...

Hideo Hiraoka has not forgotten the barbs and sneers directed his way over his cautious stance toward ordering death penalties when he was justice minister. More than a decade after leaving that post, ...