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10 March 2010: Sushi restaurant raided after Hollywood sting - It's been a good couple days for the producers of The Cove, an exposé on illegal dolphin hunting in Japan. Read more

2 February 2010: Japanese machine turns office paper into toilet paper. Read more

2 February 2010: Japanese manufacturers developing millimeter-wave communication chips. Read more

18 January 2010: Salted foods may increase cancer risk says Japanese study. Read more

7 January 2010: Toshiba TV adds third dimension to video viewing. Read more

18 November 2009: Japanese science faces deep cuts. Read more

13 November 2009: To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones say researchers from The University of Toyama. Read more

12 November 2009: Stem cell can treat blood cancers says Japanese scientist. Read more

9 November 2009: Japan eyes solar station in space as new energy source. Read more

30 October 2009: Zero-emission scooter to debut in Japan. Read more

28 October 2009: Toyota to release solar charger for electric vehicles. Read more

28 October 2009: A Japanese eyewear maker has developed "Wink Glasses", which are supposed to help prevent dry-eye when the users concentrate on video gaming or on the Internet. Read more

21 October 2009: International Research Center for Japanese Studies invites visiting scholars. Read more

15 October 2009: Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and agencies in Japan aim to use high-speed satellite communication links when terrestrial communications are down in disasters. Read more

21 September 2009: The Japanese are preparing to develop a two trillion yen space solar project that will beam electricity from space in the form of microwaves or lasers. Read more

10 September 2009: Data from the recently retired Kaguya spacecraft support the notion that the moon's crust congealed from an ocean of magma. Read more

10 September 2009: Chemists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have found that because the Sun was 30% weaker then than it is now, a greenhouse gas, Carbonyl sulphide, was able to keep the Earth from becoming a ball of ice 2,500 million years ago. Read more

3 September 2009: Scientists at Okayama University Hospital, Japan, have developed a simple imaging system to detect the presence of tumor cells circulating in the blood. Read more

28 August 2009: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and Kyoto University in Japan searching for a cure for obesity said they have developed a drug that not only makes mice lose weight, but reverses diabetes and lowers their cholesterol, too. Read more

25 August 2009: A team of Japanese scientists has discovered genes that enable rice to survive high water, providing hope for better rice production in lowland areas that are affected by flooding. Read more

25 August 2009: Mitofusin 2 Inhibits Mitochondrial Antiviral Signaling. Read more

30 June 2009: A research institution in Japan has successfully developed a system that controls a wheelchair by using brain waves in as little as 125 milliseconds. Read more

26 June 2009: Researchers in Tokyo have found that the pigeons have "advanced perceptive abilities" and can distinguish between "good" and "bad" paintings. Read more

24 June 2009: In a new study researchers from Japan suggest that a synthetic antimicrobial peptide identified as L5 may prevent death in mice suffering from life-threatening bacterial infections, such as MRSA, by activating the host immune response. Read more

23 June 2009: Living safely with robots, beyond Asimov's Laws. A framework is proposed for a legal system focused on Next Generation Robot safety issues. Read more

19 June 2009: A Japanese study shows overweight people live the longest. Read more

8 June 2009: Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics. The experiment was conceived before the current outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1), swine flu. Japan has the highest number of confirmed cases outside of North America. Read more

2 June 2009: A government panel has predicted : If nothing is done to reduce carbon emissions, the costs of damage will leap by 17 trillion yen per year compared with levels at the end of the 20th century. Read more

29 May 2009: The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins. Read more

28 May 2009: The world's first transgenic primate, a monkey, passes along inserted gene for glowing skin, this time fluorescent green. Read more

27 May 2009: Researchers in Japan have found that the synthetic retinoid AM80 is effective in treating early symptoms in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Read more

26 May 2009: Researchers in Japan have identified a gene that appears to determine cyclical hair loss in mice and also be responsible for hair loss, or alopecia, in humans. Read more

22 May 2009: Information engineers in India and Japan believe they have found an automatic way to discriminate between personal web pages and commercial pages designed to fool consumers. Read more

14 May 2009: Origins and Transport of Aquatic Dioxins in the Japanese Watershed: Soil Contamination, Land Use, and Soil Runoff Events. Read more

5 May 2009: A property called super hydrophobia enables insects like water striders to walk effortlessly on water. Research in this aspect could make self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water closer to reality. Read more

4 May 2009: Japanese scientists have found that lithium in drinking water lowers the rate of suicides. Read more

1 May 2009: Researchers at Okayama University in Japan point out death feigning has broad application among animal species, one being increased survival rate at the expense of active neighbors. Read more

1 May 2009: Making quantum cryptography practical. Quantum cryptography is a completely secure means of communication. Researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University have developed high speed detectors to receive more information faster. Read more
30 April 2009: Scientists in Japan are giving artificial cells another hallmark of life -- the ability to tap an energy source and to move. Their study describes the first “self-propelled” oil droplets (used as a model for research on artificial cells) that can run on a chemical “fuel.” Read more

24 April 2009: Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light. Read more

21 April 2009: It is a success in Japan to regenerate hair on mice using embryonic stem cells. Read more

20 April 2009: A standardised oat extract may reduce cravings for smoking and offer would-be quitters an alternative to the patches and gums. Read more

14 April 2009: For the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Read more

7 April 2009: A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating 2.5 ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for 2 months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that causes gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer. Read more

7 April 2009: 10 wild raccoons have been found with signs of previous H5N1 bird flu infections, the first time mammals in Japan have been found with bird flu virus antibodies. Read more

7 April 2009: 2 new technologies evaluate an author's feelings based on text data in order to automatically generate entertaining blog content. Read more

6 April 2009: Japan child robot mimicks infant learning. The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. Read more

1 April 2009: New robot 'steered by thought,' thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine. Read more

1 April 2009: A live image was taken as on how microglia, immune cells in the brain, surveys the synapses in the intact and ischemic brains of mice. It is done by using two-photon microscopic technology. Read more

1 April 2009: Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. When fully commissioned, this system will squeeze the facility's electron beam down to a slender ribbon just 35 nanometers thick—the narrowest beam of particles ever achieved. Read more

26 March 2009: Japan plans to prepare safety rules soon for robot nurses, which are expected to serve humans within 5 years. Read more

26 March 2009: A new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells than similar drugs used in recent clinical trials. Read more

24 March 2009: The European Commission and Japan are going to deepen their collaboration in energy research. The prime areas for cooperation are photovoltaics, power storage and carbon capture and storage (CCS). Read more

24 March 2009: New wonder pants burn body fat. The magical garments are the product of research from Japan. Read more

18 March 2009: Japan may invest two billion dollars or more in new information and communication systems under an economic stimulus package with the aim of creating 400,000 jobs by 2011. Read more

17 March 2009: Fashion robot to hit Japan catwalk. Read more

12 March 2009: Japan's human-like robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. Read more

9 March 2009: Japan is considering putting a robot on the moon by 2020 and an astronaut by 2030, amid fears that she will be left behind in Asia’s space race. Read more

6 March 2009: A Japanese astronaut going to space in March 2009 will try to fly on a carpet, use eyedrops in zero gravity and meet a series of other off-beat challenges. Read more

5 March 2009: Researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for experimentation and observed some of the 'spooky action at a distance' of quantum mechanics directly. Read more

2 March 2009: The Japanese agriculture ministry said on 1 March 2009 that an outbreak of bird flu at a quail farm was not H5N1, the form of the disease that can be deadly to humans. Read more

26 February 2009: Japanese scientists have made a dramatic break with the UN and Western-backed hypothesis of climate change in a new report from its Energy Commission. Climate science is 'ancient astrology'. Read more

18 February 2009: Japan unveils a new space rocket, H-2B. Read more

17 February 2009: A superoxide dismutase (SOD) supplement, GliSODin, may reduce the loss of cognitive function linked to stress. Read more

13 February 2009: An acid produced in the mouth due to gum disease invigorates the virus that can lead to full-blown AIDS. Read more

12 February 2009: A combination of probiotic and prebiotics may improve the ‘quality of life’ for sufferers of a type of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Read more

12 February 2009: Japanese researchers have now developed a new process to capture light energy with nearly equal efficiency such as plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Read more

9 February 2009: New biomass charcoal heater: A 'New Era' of efficiency and sustainability. Read more

9 February 2009: Japanese firms start testing robots in office buildings. Read more

5 February 2009: China, Japan and South Korea are building the world's largest radio telescope array to study the Milky Way and black holes. Read more

3 February 2009: The government of Japan will embark on a research and development program in fiscal year 2009 to develop an optical information-gathering satellite that will have one of the world's highest resolutions. Read more

30 January 2009: All-round flu vaccine developed by researchers in Japan. It works against multiple viruses and could prevent a deadly pandemic of bird flu mutations. Read more

28 January 2009: E-Paper Technology Has New Possibilities in Japan. A test was sete up to see how effective an e-paper display system would be in case of a local disaster. Read more

28 January 2009: A prospective clinical trial from researchers in Japan shows magnetic-anchor-guided endoscopic submucosal dissection for large early gastric cancer to be a feasible and safe method in humans. Read more

26 January 2009: A project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit. Read more

26 January 2009: Japan Launches Satellite to Monitor CO2. Read more

16 January 2009: Astronomers from Princeton and Japan unite to explore the universe. Read more

13 January 2009: A new mechanism regulates type I interferon production in white blood cells. Read more

13 January 2009: For 30 years, scientists have been studying stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire and maintain behavioral traditions from generation to generation, the scientists have gained insight into the cultural evolution of humans. Read more

12 January 2009: Overwork a silent killer in Japan. Thousands of Japanese are literally working themselves to death each year. Read more

9 January 2009: Scientists in Japan are reporting an advance toward using a natural disease-fighting protein in pills or syrups that patients can take by mouth rather than injection. Their study is the first to show that coating the protein with a polymer material already in wide medical use can increase its absorption by the intestine. Read more

9 January 2009: Japanese scientists said Thursday they had successfully cloned the ancestral bull of a luxurious brand of beef, possibly opening the way to distribute cloned beef. Read more

7 January 2009: Japan races to build a zero-emission car. Read more

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