Turning the page: Japan's last pager service ends after 50 years
The end of the pager era is nigh in Japan after five decades as the country's last provider announced on Monday it would be scrapping its service next year.
Dec 03, 2018
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Japan launches environment monitoring satellite
Japan's space agency on Monday launched a rocket carrying a satellite that will monitor greenhouse gases, as well as the first satellite built entirely in the United Arab Emirates.
Star to fallen idol: The Japanese rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn's status as an outsider in Japan brought him huge success, as his maverick style blew a gale through a musty corporate world, but his disregard of business norms may ultimately prove his undoing.
The impact of tourism on the sustainability of an aging community in japan
Tourism has been an economic tool for rural development the world over. In areas where agriculture has declined, tourists can activate local economies and improve livelihoods. However, rural tourism's true impacts on the ...
Peers, student attitudes, and student deviance in Japan and the United States
In American criminology, crime and other forms of deviance have often been attributed to individuals' definitions or internalized attitudes toward deviance. In previous studies, however, empirical tests of the causal processes ...
Image: BepiColombo magnetometer boom deployed
The 2.5 m long boom carrying the magnetometer sensors onboard ESA's BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) has been successfully deployed. The sensors are now prepared to measure the magnetic field on the way to Mercury.
Rocket carrying 1st UAE-made satellite launched from Japan
A Japanese rocket on Monday lifted the United Arab Emirates' first locally made satellite into orbit successfully from a space center in southern Japan.
NASA's IMERG reveals Hurricane Willa's rainfall
NASA uses satellite data to calculate the amount of rainfall generated from tropical cyclones, and used that capability for the Eastern Pacific Ocean's Hurricane Willa.
Hayabusa2 team prepares for asteroid sample collection
JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's) Hayabusa2 mission is on track to return samples from its target asteroid, 162173 Ryugu, a C-type Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). The past month has seen the successful deployment of ...
Japan firms fined $3.4 million over maglev bid-rigging
Two major construction companies were Monday ordered to pay fines totalling more than $3 million for colluding to win contracts on Japan's multi-billion-dollar maglev project.
