Japanese prime minister wants to move country towards renewable energy
Japan’s prime minister says he wants the country to learn from its ongoing crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy.
Tokyo
Radiation rises to deadly levels at Fukushima
Radiation from Japan’s quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says.
Radiation leaking from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear
Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a massive earthquake, but the government insisted that radiation levels were low.
Series of powerful earthquakes hit Japan
Strongest quake, of magnitude 8.9, triggers 10 metre-high tsunami that sweeps away homes, vehicles and crops.
Japanese firm unveils ‘Thermo Mirror’ to spot the flu
The person’s temperature is displayed on the surface, and the device has an alarm that will beep when detecting a subject who is feverish.
Speedy scanner re-writes book on publishing technology
TOKYO – Simply flipping through a book may not seem like the best to way to scan it, but a Japanese research group at Tokyo University has created new software that allows hundreds of pages to be scanned within minutes.
Scanning paper is normally a tedious process with each page having to be inserted into a flat-bed scanner, but the team led by professor Masatoshi Ishikawa use a high speed camera that takes 500 pictures a second to scan pages as they are flipped.
Global warming opens up Arctic for undersea cable
Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.
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