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TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota, the world's top automaker, and Suzuki, a Japanese rival that specializes in tiny vehicles, are tying up in a partnership. Both sides announced in a joint statement Wednesday they will study areas where they can work together in developing technology for the environment...

Children can easily recite multiplication tables when it comes to one figure multiplied by the same figure, while it takes longer for them to say tables containing the figures 4, 7, or 8, a Japanese researcher has found. So Goto, professor at Hokkai-Gakuen University in Hokkaido, discovered the...

So this story at first comes off as childrens tale but don't be fooled by early apearances, preteens and up would be my rating. Although only evenly paced the story takes on a life of its'own and I found this thoroughly engrossing, well told as well as imagintave. I did not find any real...

A fairly interesting anime. Like the majority of anime this mixes action, humor and dramatic elements in order to tell its' story. I found the pace of the story a bit uneven and the mixture of elements within it not to cohere well on the average. So the story seems to drag a bit at times and be...

The second season of Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. Like most sequels I thought it struggled to live up to the first season but sequels can be like that. It was still good enough for me to reccomend and to share. There is also a movie but it hasn't been released internationally as of yet. I think...

Kim Dotcom's request for his extradition hearing to be live streamed on the Internet has been granted by a New Zealand High Court judge. Beginning tomorrow, proceedings will be broadcast live on YouTube, despite protests from the United States that the stream could prejudice Dotcom's criminal...

Japanese weather forecasters are warning that a very powerful typhoon is bringing heavy rain and strong winds to islands in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo. The Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Lionrock was moving northeast at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour over waters near the Izu Island...

Since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines two months ago, the country has waged a vicious war against the drug trade. The number of victims will soon reach 2,000, a horrific number. The mounting death toll should come as no surprise. Duterte campaigned on a law and order...

What goes on below the waterline stays below the waterline when ships are not maintained properly. But now a Japanese company has developed a special barnacle-busting paint that dramatically affects a ship's performance at sea. When barnacles, green mussels and other organisms adhere to the...

A silly mecha anime almost entirely based on fanservice. What is not to like? Not sure how they got this past the censors to be honest. This is the cleanest smut I have ever seen but no matter how you shine it, smut is still smut. What is not to like about that though? There really isn't that...

MOSCOW – Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has sought the Self-Defense Forces’ participation in humanitarian operations being conducted by Moscow and others in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where fierce ongoing battles have left the area decimated. During a meeting with Japanese...

Gives the term "Mutant Ninjas" new life. Not a bad story actually, it has "Romeo & Juliet" overtones but plenty of interesting and imaginative fight scenes. It is not without fanservice but that seems mostly incidental to the story, there is more gore than nudity. The pace of this story is...

SAITAMA -- The Saitama Prefectural Police force arrested four more youths in the early hours of Aug. 26 on suspicion of murdering a 16-year-old boy who was found partly buried by a river in the city of Higashimatsuyama. The dead boy has been identified as Tsubasa Inoue, of the Saitama...

How long will it be before we see truly autonomous artificial intelligence (AI)-driven weapon systems on the battlefield? The current focus on developing robotic weapons has its genesis in the September 2001 terror attacks on the United States, which prompted the U.S. to make "asymmetrical...

The Boso Peninsula has the largest haul of anchovies in Japan. To fully enjoy the huge catches of anchovies, ways to preserve the fish have been passed down through the generations and include dishes such as salted fish guts, maburizushi (a type of sushi dish) and pickled anchovy with sesame...

Ambassador Solomon Maina speaks during an interview A major global platform to support Africa’s development, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, will be held in Nairobi on Aug. 27 and 28, the first such event to take place in Africa. Kenyan Ambassador Solomon Maina, who...

In preparation for the spread of the internet of things (IoT; see below), the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will develop a “protective wall” to safeguard home electronics connected to the internet from cyber-attacks, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. There has been an increasing...

Giant watermelons are lined up at the watermelon growing contest in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 20. (Takuya Kawasaki) OKEGAWA, Saitama Prefecture--If they awarded Olympic medals for watermelons, then Japan could quite possibly have won another gold. A 66.3-kilogram monster took the...

The first columbarium in the Chubu region to use an automated cinerary box conveyor system opened last month in Nagoya as the popularity of tombs that do not require much maintenance grows. In Tokyo, the number of such columbaria, where many sets of remains can be housed in one place, is rising...

A nice continuation of the series so if you liked the first season you should be pleased with this, as I was. Plot Summary: Nanami continues being a 'Land God/Earth Deity' and as well being in love with her familiar, Tomoe. Still with Onikiri, Kotetsu and Tomoe, she is living with her new...

Russian authorities have blocked a Japanese man's departure from the Northern Territories. He was with a group on a visa-free visit program. Japan's foreign ministry is asking Russia for his quick release. Ministry officials say the Japanese man is an interpreter who was visiting Kunashiri, one...

The Self-Defense Forces will begin training for new missions abroad under the revised security laws that took effect this spring, a government source said Friday. Training will begin as soon as Thursday. It will focus on preparing troops for two new missions: rescuing U.N. staffers and other...

SAKAI, Fukui Prefecture--As a small business operator, Kazu Nakagawa knows the importance of repeat customers. In his case, four grey herons "patronize" his fish shop on a near-daily basis, to the delight of neighbors. The fish shop is in this city's Maruoka district, a residential area, but...

YAMAGA, Kumamoto Prefecture--Even a series of massive earthquakes this spring could not put out the lights on a centuries-old Yamaga lantern festival here and the fantastical scenes that lift the spirits of spectators. About 1,000 women danced to a local folk ballad on Aug. 16 amid the yellow...

The Defense Ministry plans to seek a record-high budget of ¥5.17 trillion ($51.7 billion) for fiscal 2017, and aims to boost production of advanced missile interceptors to respond to increasing threats by North Korea, a government source said Thursday. For the first time ever, the ministry is...

Typhoon Chanthu is expected to come close to the Kanto region around Tokyo and northern Japan between the evening of Aug. 16 and Aug. 17, bringing heavy rain to these areas, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The JMA also warns of floods, landslides, swollen rivers and high waves in...

Colabo representative Yumeno Nito explains the aim of the exhibition at the Kagurazaka Session House theater in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, on Aug. 10, 2016. An exhibition featuring works created by teen girls and other women who have been exploited in the sex industry including through "enjo...

This is just a cute story. Acceptable for all ages and enjoyable for them as well. Important to note that this is a Shojo anime, an anime whose target audience is teenage girls. I have seen and shared a few Shojo anime here before but this is the first anime I remember that actually appears...

FUKUOKA--A test run is planned for what would be the first large-scale tidal power station in Japan. The facility, off Goto city in Nagasaki Prefecture, has a 2-megawatt output capacity and is scheduled to go online in fiscal 2019, Kyuden Mirai Energy Co., a subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power...

Japanese travelers are crowding highways, train stations and airports as they head to their hometowns and leisure spots for the annual "bon" holidays. The Japan Road Traffic Information Center says at 11 AM on Saturday, outbound traffic on the Tohoku Expressway was backed up for 36 kilometers...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reportedly expressed his wish to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to his home prefecture of Yamaguchi. Abe was speaking at a meeting of his supporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture on Saturday. The Japanese government is trying to arrange a Putin...

A monument commemorating a settlers group is seen at the Zenkoji temple charnel house in the city of Nagano. NAGANO -- Many of over 50 memorials built in Nagano Prefecture to commemorate those who died in the wartime Japanese emigration to Manchuria have been neglected as their bereaved...

The government plans to increase the number of defense attaches stationed in the Philippines and Vietnam in fiscal 2017, it was learned Thursday. Japan hopes to promote defense cooperation further with the two Southeast Asian nations as China flexes its military muscle in the East China Sea and...

CHICAGO (Kyodo) -- Through experiments in Japan, a team of researchers has detected the possibility that a subatomic particle, called neutrinos, and its corresponding antimatter element may be slightly asymmetric in nature, a finding that could shed light on the birth of the universe. The team...

TOKYO — Contrary to some early expectations, 2012 anime “Sword Art Online” didn’t achieve quite the same breakout popularity among mainstream western audiences as “Dragon Ball,” “Ghost in the Shell” or “Cowboy Bebop.” Still, “Sword Art Online” proved to be a massive hit among the demographics...

The Japanese government is set to issue a standing order for the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to intercept incoming missiles and other objects in response to North Korea's recent launch of a ballistic missile into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), government sources said on Aug. 5. The...

A China Coast Guard vessel is seen in waters near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands on Saturday morning. | JAPAN COAST GUARD / VIA KYODO Kyodo Aug 6, 2016 Tokyo lodged a protest with China on Saturday after spotting 230 Chinese vessels swarming waters near the Japan-controlled...

Sometimes it is difficult not to try to trash an anime even when I liked it. For starters the fanservice would have been more better if it wasn't censored but it was still pretty great. The protaganist wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer but this being a harem anime it was a nice plus that...

There is a difference between a ghost story and a horror story. While a ghost story can become a horror story it is always a story of the dead that have passed from the world of the living yet seek to influence those who still dwell in the world they left behind. Ghost stories are creepy...

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese lawyer was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday in the third in a series of subversion trials demonstrating the ruling Communist Party's determination to silence independent human rights activists and government critics. The sentence given to Zhou Shifeng...

Muslims can still be monitored in Japan solely based on their religion, while in the United States courts are cracking down on granting such approval. An appeal by 17 Muslim plaintiffs accusing police of snooping on them was dismissed by the Japanese Supreme Court in late May, which upheld...

The education ministry's report on a proposed update to the curriculum guidelines for elementary, junior high and high schools aims to improve the quality of education at those institutions, with the introduction of "active learning" that encourages children to develop inquisitive minds through...

I wasn't crazy about the first episode of this one but like many anime it was setting the prologue for a much more interesting story. The main characters are well done and the journey that you take with them is entertaining. One thing that you can't stress enough in a good anime are the...

A hair loss therapy that involves taking hair “seeds” from the scalp and multiplying them in a laboratory before planting them back into the patient is being developed in Japan. Kyocera Corp., the government-affiliated Riken research institute and Organ Technologies Inc., a Tokyo-based medical...

The completed replacement site for Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market was unveiled in the Toyosu district of Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 30, 100 days before it opens. A countdown event was held, and two members of the Japanese pop group TOKIO -- leader Shigeru Joshima and Masahiro Matsuoka -- were...

TOYOHASHI, Aichi Prefecture--A face mask designed to protect against Zika fever has been developed in time for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil, where a viral outbreak is raging. The company behind the product is Clever, a manufacturer of mesh products based in this central Japan...

The Supreme Court has joined the chorus of complaints about the hit smartphone game “Pokemon Go,” saying the nation’s 486 courts should be excluded from areas where its characters — and players — can be found, it was learned Wednesday. The top court issued a request to U.S. game maker Niantic...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage at a residential care facility for the disabled in Kanagawa Prefecture west of Tokyo early Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 26 others, 20 of them seriously, police and firefighters said. Kanagawa prefectural police...

HIGASHI, Okinawa -- Chaos erupted in this northern Okinawa Prefecture village on the early morning of July 22 when hundreds of riot police officers and protesters clashed as the construction of U.S. military helipads resumed. "Don't stomp over Okinawans' will!" shouted local residents who...

The U.S. Government has arrested the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, the world's largest torrent site. The 30-year-old Ukrainian was arrested in Poland today and is charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. In addition, a federal court in Chicago has ordered the...