Excellence and innovation fuel the Japanese economy. Every day, a diverse range of companies spur growth producing high-quality products that are sought after ...

An adage holds that rules are meant to be broken. Yet when rules are designed to simplify, streamline and facilitate, they feel less like roadblocks and more like guardrails ...

In 2011, the Tohoku region in northern Japan was devastated by one of the most powerful ...

From drug discovery to weather forecasting, big data analytics and artificial intelligence have been changing the way we understand our increasingly complex world. Japanese companies are ...

In October 2020, Japan gave the world a clear view of a carbon-free future.
Declaring the nation’s bold ambitions to become fully decarbonized within 30 years by ...

In November 2020, a SpaceX craft delivered a crew including Japanese astronaut Noguchi Soichi to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first ISS mission under NASA’s ...

Faced with the most elderly population in the world, Japan is applying its technological know-how to coping with the problems that arise from this social phenomenon, particularly in ...

To get a clear view of our planet’s carbon-neutral future, it helps if you’re in Japan.
As renewable-energy efforts to combat climate change ramp up around the globe, Japan’s ...

Financial technology, or fintech, may seem like an abstract force shaping the world in intangible ways. In developing countries, however, it’s changing people’s daily lives. ...

“It's already been scientifically proven that we could live up to 120 years old and our research shows that our muscles can grow beyond the age of 90 if we exercise properly,” says ...

Imagine getting medical checkups, drugs and other therapies tailored to your own genetic makeup. The concept of personalized medicine ...