Stories tagged "japan"

What happens when there’s no suitable land to build a new major airport? Here are Japan’s four floating airports.

When the Japanese get their hands on anything Western they are notorious for going all Dracula-Frankenstein on it, trans-morphing it into something new and freaky and often hilarious. Music is no different. Check out some of Japan's most creative musical

Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses. The move comes during a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS hurled acid onto a whaling ship off Antarctica, injuring four crew members, the Japanese Government says.

China and Japan are close to a deal that would ease a long-running dispute over offshore gas fields, reports from Japan say.

Testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy

The author of a bizarre virus which threatened to kill file-sharers has been arrested in Japan. Has he been arrested for making death threats? No! For writing the virus? No! This is the 21st century. He'€™s been arrested for copyright infringement!

Leave it to Japanese designers to bring superb engineering and creativity to even the most everyday products. This time it's mechanical pencils.

Japan's famous Harajuku, is famous for the extreme and weird fashions and cultures it is home to. From Yamambas to ...

As the whaling season get underway, schoolchildren in Wada, 50 miles southeast of Tokyo, have been on field trips to see the first Baird's beaked whales of the year winched up the concrete slipway and carved up with razor-sharp flensing knives.