Japan has switched on its first osmotic power plant in Fukuoka, marking a new step in efforts to find reliable, low-carbon energy. The site, which began operating in early August, is only the second ...

A photographed journey in the land of the rising sun reveals how japan preserves centuries-old tradition, while at the same ...

As Japan's biggest defence exhibition kicked off this week, visitors got a close-up look at a model of its futuristic "railgun" that its makers hope will be able to shoot down hypersonic missiles.

In a quiet corner of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, a construction project is drawing global attention—not for its size or cost, but for what it doesn’t contain: concrete. The Lib Earth House, developed ...

Japan lives in a cyberpunk-styled future that twines tech in the most mundane of things. You can find robots performing repetitive tasks at restaurants, like peeling a banana or frying chips, while ...

Wesley Morgan is a research fellow with the Griffith Asia Institute and a fellow with the Climate Council of Australia. Japan has a very clear vision of what the Asia-Pacific’s clean energy future ...

When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with ...

Instead of gunpowder, railgun technology uses electromagnetic energy to fire a projectile along a set of rails at ultra-high velocity. Instead of using gunpowder to shoot an artillery shell, railgun ...