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How a Tokyo train ticket made tap-and-go payments normal 13 years before Apple Pay
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How a Tokyo train ticket made tap-and-go payments normal 13 years before Apple Pay
How a Tokyo start-up's small radar satellites watch Earth day and night, in any weather
How Japan's largest power generator plans to clean up coal plants by burning ammonia, and why critics are not convinced
How a QR code app with 72 million users broke Japan's cash habit and became a Nasdaq-listed super app
How Telexistence restocks convenience-store coolers with AI and remote operators
Microsoft, AWS, and SoftBank are pouring tens of billions into Japanese AI infrastructure — and hitting a wall called electricity
Everyone knows Nintendo. Everyone knows PlayStation. But behind the iconic brands lies a $25 billion technology ecosystem that most outsiders never see…
In a windowless room at a Fanuc factory in Yamanashi Prefecture, a row of robotic arms assembles components with sub-millimeter precision. Nothing…
While the rest of the world debates whether hydrogen will ever be economically viable, Japan has already placed its bet. It was…
Japan builds some of the most resilient infrastructure on Earth — skyscrapers that sway through magnitude-9 earthquakes, tunnels bored through active volcanic…