Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The Pedia_Roid simulates the jittery movements that children often make in the dentist chair, helping to train paediatric dentists. Co-developed by a Japanese robotics startup, Tmsuk, [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube More and more people in Japan are breaking with traditions on burial and mourning, choosing modern cemeteries over traditional ancestral graveyards. Cremated remains are traditionally laid [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A giant squid more than 3 metres (10 feet) long has been found alive. It washed ashore in Obama, western Japan, on April 20, 2022. The [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japan offered an unusually warm welcome to 20 Ukrainian refugees as they arrived in the country on board a special government flight on April 5, 2022. [More]

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has urged his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to take a tougher line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but a joint statement after talks in New Delhi fell short of condemning [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Heavy snow hit Hokkaido prefecture in northern Japan on February 21, 2022. The capital Sapporo was blanketed in over 30cm (12 inches) of snow, creating whiteout [More]

Japan plans to release water that was contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency has been assessing the safety of the [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Some Japanese seniors are using joysticks, headphones and LED keyboards as tools to fight loneliness and isolation at a new gaming facility in the city of [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japan celebrates Seijin-no-hi, or Coming of Age Day, on the second Monday of January every year. Young people dressed in traditional kimonos take part in the [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube McDonald’s Japan has suspended sales of medium and large French fries since January 9, 2022, allowing customers to only buy small portions. The fast-food chain said [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japan and the US have further deepened security ties amid growing tensions in the region. The two countries agreed to increase cooperation on scientific research related [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Areas of Japan’s southern-central region including Hyogo and Shiga prefectures were hit with record snowfalls on December 27, 2021. The previous day, the nation’s transport system [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Following a December 27, 2021, video call between Japan’s Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe, Tokyo said the two countries have agreed [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The world’s first bus-train is set to debut in Kaiyo, Japan on December 25. With an extra set of wheels for train tracks, the dual-mode vehicle [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Footage from November 24, shows stunning sunset over Sekiyado Castle and Mount Fuji in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture. Source: AFP Follow us on: Website: https://scmp.com SCMP Knowledge: [More]

Japan’s ruling coalition is projected to keep its majority in the lower house of parliament. But Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party is forecast to lose some seats. The vote is seen as the [More]

#China #Japan #Russia SCMP’s Tokyo-based correspondent Julian Ryall analyses China and Russia exploiting a loophole to send a navy group on a historic passage between Japan’s main island of Honshu and northern island of Hokkaido. [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Ten naval ships from China and Russia sailed through the Tsugaru Strait on October 18, 2021, according to the Japanese government. The strait separates Japan’s main [More]

Joint military exercises of the Russian Navy and the People’s Republic of China Naval Forces have been held in the Sea of Japan (known to Koreans as the East Sea). Sailors from both countries performed [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube China and Russia wrapped up joint naval drills on October 17, 2021, near the Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan, or East Sea. [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Researchers at Osaka University are trying to mass-produce Japan’s famous Wagyu beef using 3D printers. The scientists hope the technology can be applied to regenerative medicine [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier made a port call in Japan on September 6, 2021, marking the start of a permanent military presence in a [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A cafe in central Tokyo is using robots to serve customers. But they’re not being controlled by anyone at the cafe. Instead, disabled staff are directing [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on August 8, 2021, echoed the restraint of a Games that was transformed by Covid-19. Inside the Olympic bubble, [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japan’s inventive spirit has repeatedly found a creative outlet in some curious culinary creations, including a new frozen treat that is one of the world’s truly [More]

There are signs that the Japanese public may be warming to the Olympics. More than 70 million people in the country watched the opening ceremony and the hosts have already racked up several gold medals. [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube It’s been an action packed Day 2 at Tokyo 2020, with China and Japan powering ahead in the medal tally. Tennis star Naomi Osaka made her [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Mascots representing the Tokyo Olympics are only the latest in a cast of cute characters that have long made their mark in Japan. The cartoonish creatures [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube With one quintessential element lacking from the Olympic equation in the Japanese capital – crowds – the nation looks set to lose out. Post Magazine columnist [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/clipssubscribe China on July 13, 2021, said Japan “grossly interfered in its internal affairs” after Tokyo raised the importance of the Taiwan Strait in its annual defence [More]

Rescue teams are looking for survivors of a deadly landslide in the town of Atami in Japan. At least two people were killed and 20 are still missing after homes were swept away. Subscribe to [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The US issued a “do not travel” advisory for Japan on May 24, 2021, just two months ahead of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Amid a [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A life-size virtual assistant in the guise of an anime character was showcased in Japan on April 26, 2021. The two-metre (6.6ft) holographic robot interacts with [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japan entered its third state of emergency on April 25, 2021, in an effort to bring the country’s largest spike in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations since [More]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A team of Japanese researchers say they have found a way to convert plastic waste into liquid fuel. The scientists used a catalyst, by combining the [More]