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DNAIndiaNews - Feb 24
A balloon made that could soon be carrying passengers to space. A new Japanese company IWAYA INC. announced its plans in Tokyo. It is a drum-shaped plastic cabin is 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) in diameter and has several large windows to allow a view of space above or the Earth below.

AsiaNews - Feb 23
Hospital beds will no longer be reserved exclusively for COVID-19 patients within a year after the disease’s status is lowered to the same level as seasonal flu, it has been learned.

Nikkei - Feb 22
A flying car achieved the first manned outdoor flight in Japan on Friday morning in a trial by a local consortium of aviation and automobile businesses, a big step for a technology seen as serving remote islands and mountainous regions that lack transportation.

NHK - Feb 17
Experts are trying to figure out why Japan's new H3 flagship rocket was not able to lift off from a site in southwestern Japan as scheduled.

NHK - Feb 15
A team of Japanese and US researchers says releasing too much young fish into rivers disrupts their ecosystems and reduces river fish populations.

ctvnews.ca - Feb 11
Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

Nikkei - Feb 11
Japan's Cabinet formally adopted a policy on Friday that will allow for the operation of nuclear reactors beyond their current 60-year limit alongside the building of new units to replace aging ones as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions while ensuring adequate national energy supply.

WION - Feb 09
From April, revised traffic laws will allow self-driving delivery robots to navigate streets across Japan.

Kyodo - Feb 09
A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted Wednesday, with a local weather observatory warning those within a 2-kilometer radius against pyroclastic flows and falling rocks.

Nikkei - Feb 08
On a quiet day at work around 10 years ago, Tadanori Fukushima started receiving alarming email messages from a sender he did not recognize. The emails warned that his company's broadcasting satellite -- worth roughly $150 million -- was on a collision course with an unidentified object. The sender turned out to be the U.S. Air Force.

GeologyHub - Feb 02
In the last week, both the Nishinoshima & Bayonnaise Rocks volcanoes began producing new eruptions in Japan. Both volcanoes exist above calderas in a similar geologic setting.

Animalogic - Jan 29
This is the northern-most living wild primate in the world, the Snow Monkey.

Kyodo - Jan 28
A pharmaceutical advisory body for Japan's health ministry on Friday expressed no objection to the manufacturing and marketing of an abortion pill, bringing the medication a step closer to becoming the first of its kind to gain approval in the country.

AP - Jan 26
Japan successfully launched a rocket Thursday carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite on a mission to watch movements at military sites in North Korea and improve natural disaster response.

NHK - Jan 21
Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi has completed his first spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

gulfnews.com - Jan 20
A pair of scuba divers has captured rare video and photos of a 2.5-metre giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan's west coast.