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By Chris Meyers TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - For some elderly survivors of [More]
Read More »Japan vows to skirt nuclear shutdown, watchdog embarassed
By Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will strive to avoid a complete shutdown of its 54 nuclear reactors and avert crippling power shortages in the near term while charting plans to reduce the nation's dependence on nuclear power, the government said on Friday.
Read More »250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party’s Mind-Bending, Strobe-Animated Music Video
The creative collective made a video for the Japanese band Androp using 250 Canon still cameras. Their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. Individually, the founders of Tokyo- and New York-based Party have created some of the most interesting music-driven videos of the last few years
Read More »IAEA Chief Sees More Nuclear Power Use Despite Fukushima Crisis
TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.
Read More »Japan Utilities Push to Extend Life of Nuclear Plants
By Kaori Kaneko and Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Japanese utilities moved on Friday to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastal nuclear plants, fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy in the wake of the Fukushima radiation crisis. [More]
Read More »Japan cites Fukushima progress but sees long road ahead
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO, July 19 (Reuters) - Japan's government said on [More]
Read More »Fossil fuels can’t save Japan from power shortage
By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, Jul 15 (Reuters) - Japan would face a serious electricity shortage if all its 54 [More]
Read More »Flying Sphere Goes Where Humans Fear to Tread
TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters Life!) - Its Japanese developerscall it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's [More]
Read More »Japan to Check Beef from Fukushima for Radiation
TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - Beef from areas around Japan'scrippled nuclear plant will be inspected after meat with [More]
Read More »Blame It on My Blood, Disgraced Japan Politician Says
TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forced to quit after barelya week as Japan's reconstruction minister for remarks deemed [More]
Read More »Divorce ceremonies pick up in Japan after disaster
TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters Life!) - Ceremonies to celebratedivorces have gained momentum in Japan after the massive March [More]
Read More »Japanese material scientists develop new superelastic alloy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Working out of Tokyo University, scientists in the Department of Materials Science, have developed a new metal alloy that unlike other superelastic alloys can resume its original shape in temperatures ranging from -196 to 249 degrees Celsius. Prior to this discovery, such alloys were only able to revert to their original form in the much narrower range of -20 to 80 degrees Celsius.
Read More »What Happens When Japanese Creatives Form A Supergroup? Party
Party is a creative lab that marries entertainment, product development, technology, and advertising. The partners plan to work with brands, and on entertainment and self-driven projects across platforms and borders. Call it a creative supergroup if you like, but please don’t call it an agency
Read More »Magnetic control of anomalous hall effect induced by spin chirality
Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo and RIKEN announced that researchers from both institutes succeeded in the magnetic control of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) induced by spin chirality.
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