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Testing an ActiveLink exoskeleton

Future military

An Aging Japan Turns To Exoskeletons For Elder Care

by Worldcrunch January 29, 2016May 23, 2025

Megumi Igarashi in Beijing, with her trademark vagina-shaped manga figurine

Society womens rights

From Japan To Hong Kong, Female Sexuality Is A Free Speech Battle

by Worldcrunch January 12, 2016May 22, 2025

Schoolchildren in Tokyo

Society children

What Arab Teachers Learn From Japanese Education System

by Worldcrunch December 16, 2015May 23, 2025

Four smiles in Japan

Ideas alzheimers disease

Lessons For The World From A Dramatically Aging Japan

by Worldcrunch December 3, 2015May 23, 2025

At a record store in Tokyo

Even In Techno-Charged Japan, Vinyl Makes Comeback

by Bertrand Hauger November 26, 2015May 23, 2025

Running (except for the makeup)

Ever Beauty-Conscious, Japanese Women Embrace Sports Makeup

by Worldcrunch November 12, 2015May 23, 2025

Happy 100th!

Food / Travel japan

The Landmark Tokyo Station Hotel Marks Its Centennial

by Worldcrunch November 4, 2015May 23, 2025

Man walking in Kesennuma, Tohoku, after the March 2011 earthquake

Alcoholism, Post-Quake Japan’s Silent Aftershock

by Bertrand Hauger October 29, 2015May 23, 2025

Tokyo's Morioka Shoten Ginza bookshop

Society literature

The Japanese Bookshop That Sells Just One Title A Week

by Patrick Randall October 15, 2015May 22, 2025

Always looking cool (or hot)

Sake Gets Sassy, Aims For Global Millennials Market

by Bertrand Hauger October 9, 2015May 22, 2025

Inada has risen quickly through the ranks.

Geopolitics japan

The Woman Who May Succeed Shinzo Abe In Japan

by Worldcrunch October 2, 2015May 22, 2025

Protesting in Tokyo on April 11

Geopolitics united states

Japanese Women v. Shinzo Abe

by Worldcrunch September 14, 2015May 22, 2025

Baguettes are the stars in Asia

Asia’s Paradoxical Battle For The French Baguette

by Worldcrunch May 24, 2015May 23, 2025

Instant translation, lost magic

Future language

Lost In Translation, A Strange State Of Grace

by Worldcrunch May 15, 2015May 22, 2025

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe at Jerusalem's Yad Vahsem Holocaust memorial museum in January.

Geopolitics japan

Japan, Turkey And The Difficult Exercise Of Repentance

by Worldcrunch May 7, 2015May 23, 2025

Emotion-reading robot Pepper

Robots Read Your Emotions, The Next Shopping Frontier

by Worldcrunch February 19, 2015May 22, 2025

A handy bargaining tool.

Think That Gucci Bag Is Fake? There’s An App For That

by Julie Farrar November 28, 2014May 22, 2025

After dissolving Parliament last week

Where Abenomics Went Wrong

by Worldcrunch November 26, 2014May 23, 2025

Tokyo's future national "bicycle helmet"

Society environment

Japan’s Architects Unite Against Tokyo Olympic Stadium

by Worldcrunch October 6, 2014May 23, 2025

A Japanese "takumi" passing on his knowledge to the next generation.

Economy technology

Takumi, Toyota’s Secret Weapons To Train The Robots

by Worldcrunch October 1, 2014May 22, 2025

Japan's military shows its stripes

Geopolitics south korea

Japan’s Quiet Return To Global Weapons Market

by Worldcrunch April 22, 2014May 22, 2025

Kamaishi in the aftermath

Society tsunami

Why Japan’s Tsunami Refugees Are Still Shut Out

by Liz Garrigan March 14, 2014May 22, 2025

Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada

Society literature

Yoko Tawada, A Writer Split In Two

by Bertrand Hauger March 7, 2014May 22, 2025

Hibaku Jumoku, the "survivor trees"

The Silent Survivor Of Hiroshima

by Julie Farrar February 17, 2014May 24, 2025

"More than a quarter of the Japanese population will soon be over 65."

Welcome To The Japanese City Slowly Dying Away

by Patrick Randall February 11, 2014May 23, 2025

Dolphin hunters in Indonesia, Oct. 2012

Food / Travel animal rights

Is Dolphin Slaughter Any Worse Than Ground Beef?

by Jeff Israely February 3, 2014May 22, 2025

Members of Yakuza aren't afraid of public displays

A Japanese Mafia In Crisis Banks On Abenomics

by Liz Garrigan January 25, 2014May 23, 2025

Fishy business at Tokyo's Tsujiki market

In Japan, The Uncertain Future Of The World’s Largest Fish Market

by Bertrand Hauger January 20, 2014May 23, 2025

Tokyo doesn't have to be so lonely

Ideas technology

Rent-A-Friend: A Solution For The Lonely People Of Japan

by Valentina Crosato January 15, 2014May 23, 2025

Toyota's self-driving Lexus

Future technology

Japan’s Challenge To Google On Self-Driving Cars

by Worldcrunch December 27, 2013May 22, 2025

Workers next to Fukushima's No.4 reactor

Geopolitics japan

Meet The Underpaid, Overexposed ‘Liquidators’ Of Fukushima

by Patrick Randall October 17, 2013May 22, 2025

Shinzo Abe and Angela Merkel at the 2013 G8 Summit in Northern Ireland

Economy economy

Merkelnomics v. Abenomics: German Rigor Or Seductive Japanese Stimulus?

by Sarah Collings August 26, 2013May 21, 2025

At least 27 people have died and 10 are missing in Western Japan after a monthâ€™s worth of rain fell in one night in Hiroshima.

Geopolitics isis

ISIS Kills U.S. Journalist, Hiroshima Landslides, Breaking Bad Duo

by Bertrand Hauger August 20, 2013May 23, 2025

Of voting age...someday?

Should Japan Give Kids The Right To Vote?

by Hélène Pillon July 18, 2013May 23, 2025

What can you teach Europe?

Society immigration

Lessons For Old Europe From Japan’s Shrinking Population

by Charlotte Fichou July 12, 2013May 24, 2025

In Tokyo

Why Women Are The Key To Japan’s Economic Revival

by Leo Tilmont June 18, 2013May 22, 2025

Kawada Industries' NextAge humanoid robots

A Response In Japan To Low Birthrates And Labor Shortage: Humanoid Robots

by Leo Tilmont May 27, 2013May 22, 2025

Who will stop Abe from returning to the past?

Shinzo Abe And The Return Of Japanese Nationalism – A View From Beijing

by Marion Girault-Rime May 13, 2013May 22, 2025

Her Imperial Highness Crown Princess Masako

As All Toast Dutch Royals, The Saddest Princess Arrives On Rare Escape From Japan

by Jeff Israely April 30, 2013May 24, 2025

Public order comes at a high price in Japan

Society justice

How Japan Uses Low Crime Rates To Justify Its Cruel Prison System

by Carolina Saracho March 20, 2013May 23, 2025