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Nikkei - Nov 10
Japan could face a new peak in COVID-19 cases as the northernmost main island Hokkaido, where winter hits earliest, sets daily records.

NHK - Nov 09
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has rocked Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo. It hit at around 5:40 pm on Wednesday.

Japanese Comedian Meshida - Nov 09
Nowadays Japanese toilets are famous all over the world for being high-tech.

NHK - Nov 09
Sky watchers across much of Japan have enjoyed an enormously rare celestial spectacle -- Uranus hidden by a totally eclipsed moon.

newsonjapan.com - Nov 07
Frequent travelers might have numerous questions regarding the safety of public Wi-Fi connections.

CNA Insider - Nov 06
A nurse on night duty at a rural hospital 670km away from Tokyo realises something is amiss when multiple office printers begin spewing out strange printouts.

NHK - Nov 03
Honda Motor says it is developing an AI self-driving system that uses cameras to help the vehicle better recognize its surroundings. This is the company's latest step toward putting autonomous driving technology into commercial use.

NHK - Nov 01
The number of syphilis cases in Japan this year has exceeded 10,000 for the first time since comparable data became available in 1999.

mining.com - Nov 01
Japan is looking 6,000 meters under the sea for rare earths to counter China’s dominance of the critical minerals that are used in everything from smartphones to weapons, according to the Yomiuri newspaper.

NHK - Oct 29
The Tokyo Metropolitan government has announced the capital's first cases of the new coronavirus Omicron subvariant XBB.

Japan Today - Oct 27
Japan is planning to start allowing companies to pay wages to digital payment apps like PayPay and Rakuten Pay from April, the labor ministry said Wednesday, in a bid to promote cashless payments as a way to stimulate the economy.

CNA Insider - Oct 27
How Japan is using tech to transform elderly care?

cointelegraph.com - Oct 25
In Japan, the city of Fukuoka is looking toward the future of Web3 in its latest partnership with Astar Japan Labs, the company behind Japan’s leading blockchain, the Astar network.

newsonjapan.com - Oct 24
SASE got its first recognition after Gartner introduced it to describe the fusion of core network and security features delivered via a single cloud service.

NHK - Oct 21
A group of researchers says it has found traces of noble gases on sand and other asteroid samples brought back by a Japanese space probe.

NHK - Oct 18
One of Asia's largest high-tech trade shows kicked off on Tuesday.