The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm) wide and ...

Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending more than four decades on death row, ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

In an era of town-torching megablazes spewing smoke plumes visible from space, scientists say there is still a lot they don't ...

A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers ...

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ ...

(Mainichi/Yasuhiro Tanabe) NARA -- Nara Park in this western Japan city is enjoying a tourist ... the fact remains that they are wild animals, and the deer-human relationship has not been without ...

Unless you're an audio nerd, you might not be familiar with Technics, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the ...

Japan has a wealth of region-locked games that have pushed boundaries, but many of these titles never made it to the West. One major hurdle was translation and its inherent challenges. Japanese Kanji ...

Japan is running out of workers ... Each of the robots is being controlled by a human – or pilot, as they are referred to by creator Kentaro Yoshifuji. Using a phone, tablet or even just ...