カテゴリー: Japan
Robovie uses lasers to measure social distancing, politely asks shoppers to cover up and guides them around the storeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA shop in Japan has enlisted a robot to ensure customers are wearing masks,…
Rai Rai Ken is back in business in Tokyo but pandemic has taken a heavy toll on ramen shopsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a century after it welcomed its first ravenous customers in downtown Tokyo, Rai Rai Ken is …
A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside.Bear sightings in Japan are at a five-year high and occur mostly in rural areas in western and northern&nb…
Officials say there have been no bear encounters since arrival of robots in wolves’ clothing A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside.The town of T…
Heavily subsidised domestic tourism campaign and colder weather being blamed for rise in casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in Japan have warned of an impending third wave of coronavirus infections amid a rise in…
Town mayor, 73, whose name can be pronounced similarly to president-elect, was trending on social mediaJoe Biden’s election victory has brought an improbable moment of celebrity to a local politician in Japan.Yutaka Umeda, 73, the mayor of Yamato, a sm…
Birth rate remains stubbornly low despite series of government initiatives encouraging couples to have bigger familiesJapan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has given hope to couples struggling to conceive with a pledge to cover expensive fertilit…
Same-sex couples say hotels make excuses to turn them away despite 2018 law changeIn May this year, at the height of the coronavirus’s first wave, two gay men living together in Amagasaki, western Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the count…
Yoshihide Suga says dealing with climate change is no longer a constraint on growth as he sets out a bolder approach to the emergency Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has said the country will become carbon neutral by 2050, heralding a bolder ap…
Experts warn of more encounters as animals forced into populated areas to find foodA spate of bear attacks in Japan has prompted calls to improve their natural habitat, as experts warned of more potentially dangerous encounters with the animals as they…
Environmental organisation says ‘dangerous’ levels of carbon-14 exist in water that could soon be released into Pacific oceanContaminated water that will reportedly be released into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contain…
This month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of students for decadesFor more than a century the Takarazuka Music School has transformed thousands of young women from unpolished amateurs into accomp…
The reach of the GRU spy unit behind attacks on Japan and South Korea is remarkableRussia planned cyber-attack on Tokyo Olympics, says UK In the aftermath of Moscow’s hacking of the 2016 US election, many analysts expected the GRU to be punished. After…
Foreign secretary condemns ‘cynical and reckless’ bid to disrupt Games, before they were postponedRussian military intelligence services were planning a cyber-attack on the Japanese-hosted Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo this summer in a bid to disru…