Wave energy has long promised steady clean power, but real-world devices have struggled to turn chaotic swells into reliable ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Japan is seeking to reassert itself at the technological frontier with Rapidus, a government-backed ...

Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group reports it swung back to profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as ...

Japan’s OHISAMA demonstration satellite is scheduled to be launched in fiscal 2026 on a mission that could revolutionize ...

The US Department of Energy and private Japanese fusion technology company Kyoto Fusioneering have established a landmark ...

Japan’s METI and JAMSTEC have successfully retrieved rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres below the Pacific Ocean. This world-first mission could strengthen Japan’s technology and energy ...

Japan is one of the most volcanically active nations. Its world-leading research on volcanic disasters has led to new ...

Unsurprisingly, it was also in Japan that neocognitron, the architectural ancestor of the neural networks that power systems like ChatGPT, was developed by computer scientist Kunihiko Fukushima. Yet, ...

Japan Daily suggests that the success of drones in Japan, a land with a history of overcoming natural disasters such as earthquakes, will enable it to lead the world in reforestation technology, with ...

In “The Islands and the Stars,” Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo’s space program has changed over the past century.