A group of more than 200 Japanese seniors are volunteering to clean up the mess left in the Fukushima nuclear power station. All are over the age of 60, many are retired engineers, and they are taking responsibility for the nuclear power plants which their generation erected.
Mitsubishi electric car owners in Japan will soon be able to use the family car as an emergency generator, using their EV's batteries to power a home.
There's reducing, reusing, recycling—and then, there's an architect who transforms cardboard tubes into miracle building materials.
Don't assume something is impossible just because it has never been done. Like the case of the Japanese watermelon, just because it has always been round, doesn't mean it always has to be. Japanese grocery stores had a problem. They are much smaller than their US counterparts and therefore don't have room to waste. Watermelons, big and round, wasted a lot of space. Then, some Japanese farmers came up with a solution.
Japan is known for its high-speed bullet trains and old-fashioned locomotives. But, nothing compares to the attention this life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine has received since last summer.
These small, rabbit-like creatures are actually sea slugs whose fluffy "coats" and pointy ears have earned them the nickname "sea bunnies."
A Japanese village has created giant images from Star Wars using different colored rice plants growing in a paddy.
Japanese soldiers discovered a crying 4-month-old baby buried beneath the rubble. She was swept from the arms of her parents by the tsunami but reunited with them shortly after her rescue.
The PaperLab can create a ton of new paper from waste documents in your office every month, while saving up to 12,000 gallons of water.
Japan's abandoned and bankrupt golf courses are getting a second life as solar power stations.
This ancient Japanese brew gives you 10 times the antioxidants of green tea and packs a punch comparable to a cup of coffee.
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A 27-year-old Japanese shop-assistant dons a superhero disguise in his spare time in order to help strangers maneuvering the dimly lit stairs of a Tokyo subway station which has no escalators or lifts. For three months, Tadahiro Kanemasu has used his green suit, with silver trim, to protect his identity as he helps the elderly and people lugging heavy bags or stollers.
A Japanese-American soldier who single-handedly stormed machine gun nests in World War II clearing the way for an entire battalion to escape was awarded the military's second highest honor yesterday, the Distinguished Service Award.
The hunt was on today for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo. Echoing the hit animated movie Madagascar, the penguin fled over a wall that was more than twice his height, and later was seen bathing in the mouth of a nearby river.
A famous cat conductor who saved a railway from ruin was given a royal send-off by three thousand mourners in a traditional Shinto funeral in Japan Sunday.
A ban on dancing after midnight in Japan dates back to post-World War II, but it finally got a high kick - out of existence.
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