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When Best Motoring Pitched the Best of Japan Against Supercars

Oh to have worked at Japanese TV show Best Motoring in the 1990s. Regularly, it put together track battles featuring the coolest cars of the era driven by the most talented racers in the country at Tsukuba Circuit. It never missed. This test is particularly interesting, with Japan's best performance cars of…

Motor1

SpaceX will launch 2 private lunar landers this week, kicking off busy year for moon missions

Lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace will lift off atop the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week, kicking off a busy year of moon missions.

Space

Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time

In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it

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How a robot cafe in Tokyo aims to empower – not replace – human workers

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ technology that could open up new demographics for Japan’s flatlining economy. Adam Withnall reports from Tokyo

The Independent UK

“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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Eight injured in hammer attack spree at Tokyo university

Police have arrested a 22-year-old female student from the scene, and say it is unclear whether the attack was premeditated

The Independent UK

Japan To Give Indonesia High-speed Patrol Boats In Security Deal

Japan will give Indonesia two high-speed patrol boats, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Saturday, as Tokyo seeks to boost regional maritime security cooperation in the face of competing territorial claims with China.

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Indonesia and Japan promise deeper defense and economic ties as regional tensions spike

Japan and Indonesia have pledged to deepen economic and defense ties during a visit by the Japanese prime minister amid heightened global geopolitical tensions

The Independent UK

Police arrest student suspected of hammer attack at a Tokyo university

Japanese police have arrested a student suspected of a hammer attack at a Tokyo university, which local media said left several injured

The Independent UK

Eye injury forces Goodman out of blockbuster fight

Australian boxer Sam Goodman has been forced to pull out of his world title mega-fight with Naoya Inoue in Japan after a recurrence of his eye injury.

AAP

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N DK Edition Is Approved By The Drift King Himself

Keiichi Tsuchiya is a legendary Japanese race car driver and the man who brought drifting into the mainstream. However, even though the Drift King’s career stretches back decades, he is a star not only in his native Japan but around the world, and he has collaborated with automakers, but he’s…

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‘The speakers are the crown jewels’: the rise of Britain’s listening bars

Music on high-end sound systems takes centre stage in these Japanese-inspired spaces for audiophiles

The Guardian - UK

Mazda Finally Gives the Miata More Power

At last year's Tokyo Auto Salon, Mazda hinted at the prospects of a hotter MX-5 when a hardcore Miata showed up on stage under the Mazda Spirit Racing banner. At the same show in Japan, the production version broke cover today as a limited-run special edition for the local market. Based…

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Japan 'Poop Master' Gives Back To Nature

When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do.

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Japan Links Cyberattacks To Chinese Group, Urges Enhanced Security Measures

Japan faces cyberattacks by Chinese group MirrorFace targeting national security and technology data. Measures taken to safeguard systems and counter threa...

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Japan links Chinese hacker MirrorFace to dozens of cyberattacks targeting security and tech data

Japan has linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace

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