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Japan plans to make all publicly funded research available to read in institutional repositories.Credit: Toru Yamanaka/AFP via Getty The Japanese government is pushing ahead with a plan to make Japan’s publicly funded research output free to read. This month, the … Read more

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights. A post on social media from the lander’s X account confirmed that once more, SLIM had defied the odds and snapped a picture of … Read more

Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item: onigiri. The onigiri, often translated as “rice ball”, literally means “grasping a fistful” and is in many ways Japan’s original fast food, before … Read more

Sources have told NHK the air traffic control instruction of “number 1” that indicates the order in which planes should take off at Japanese airports will not be used for the time being. The move comes after the misinterpretation of … Read more

Swatting away an army of insects drawn to our sweat-soaked attire, photographer Johan Brooks and I trudge our way up a steep, winding hill in Urayama, a region known for a dam by the same name. I’ve already led Johan … Read more

Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience … Read more

Ah, it’s Halloween weekend. And that means it’s time for our favorite Japanese festival Jimi Halloween, where people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained. The tradition was started in 2014 by a group of adults … Read more

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Around half of the lawmakers belonging to Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party had dealings with a contentious religious group believed to be a major reason behind the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the party … Read more

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will in July begin remote work as its new norm for around 30,000 of its domestic employees, treating attendance as a business trip and allowing for work and commute from anywhere in Japan, even by … Read more