Chindōgu is the Japanese practice of inventing things that are not exactly useful but neither are they useless; they’re more ...

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second factory to produce cutting-edge semiconductors in a race with ...

When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with ...

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; President: Masashi Nagayasu) joined the open-source patent mutual use institution Open Invention Network (hereafter, ...

Yuki Tsukada of Shiga International Patent Office says the rulings will ease enforcement of patent rights on network-related inventions and suggests legislative reform may be on the horizon ...

The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Government of Japan, represented by the Cabinet Office of Japan for the purposes of ...

The next step seems to be to use electric vehicles instead of gasoline or diesel engines. Although public transportation has ...