Japanese condom makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Japan’s economy, trade and industry minister has resigned over his comments about radiation contamination in crisis-hit Fukushima.
Workers at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant on Wednesday plugged a hole spewing highly radioactive water into the ocean.
Militant environmentalists hurled stinging acid for more than an hour onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members, officials said. Both Japan and Australia, the leading opponent of whaling, condemned the latest attack by the Sea Shepherd group.
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/ 22 February 2008
Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world’s wars. The only problem is finding a way to measure it. And so the expert on communications has invented a machine to chart out laughter — and a new unit of "aH" to calculate it.
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/ 29 September 2006
Japan’s Sony, scrambling to contain the fall-out from widening defective battery problems, launched a global replacement programme after China’s Lenovo became the latest computer maker to mount a recall. Sony will offer to replace certain battery packs for notebook computers in response to concerns at recent overheating incidents, it said late on Thursday.