Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2009 - Japan on Friday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 13, 2024 - Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft flew around the archipelago for the first time in five years, Tokyo said Friday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 - Japanese authorities on Tuesday referred the case of a US military pilot to prosecutors over the 2016 crash of an Osprey aircraft that fuelled sentiment against a US base on Okinawa island.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2010 - Japanese researchers said Friday they had developed technology to scan a book as fast as a person can flip through it.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 23, 2024 - Japan lodged a very serious protest with Moscow after a Russian patrol plane entered its airspace three times, the defence minister said Monday, calling it the first confirmed incursion since 2019.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2023 - More than 100 fishermen and locals living near Fukushima will file a lawsuit this week seeking to stop the release of wastewater from the stricken Japanese nuclear plant, they said Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - Japan's Teijin Chemicals Limited said Wednesday it had created a plastic that emits a blue light when exposed to radioactivity, which it says will lead to cheaper radiation detectors.
Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) Sept 01, 2014 - Technology that generates touchable 3D imagery was unveiled in Japan Monday, with its developers saying users could pull and push objects that are not really there.
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Sept 30, 2010 - Japanese researchers said Thursday they had developed a hybrid vehicle motor that is free of rare earths, the minerals that are now almost exclusively produced by China.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is to unveil a smartphone with changeable jackets that measure bad breath, body fat and even radiation levels.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 18, 2012 - Japan's big three automakers shuttered some or all of their factory operations in China on Tuesday amid escalating anti-Japan protests centred on a bitter territorial dispute between the Asian giants.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 22, 2012 - Major Japanese companies have teamed up with a government-backed turnaround fund to rescue troubled chipmaker Renesas, in a move designed to block a purchase by a US investment firm, a report said Saturday.
London (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 - Britain's James Dyson, who announced a plan to develop electric cars on Tuesday, is the self-styled king of vacuum cleaners who revolutionised the household appliance and became a global brand.
London (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 - Jaguar Land Rover will make all its new vehicles available in electric or hybrid models from 2020, it said on Thursday, two months after a similar announcement from Volvo.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2011 - Streets full of traffic jams, bad pay, rising petrol costs and 20 hours a day behind the wheel have left Nie Haiming, a Shanghai taxi driver, exasperated and bitter.
Milan (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - Italian defence industry group Finmeccanica said Monday it plans to cut 1,200 jobs from its Alenia Aeronautica aviation unit, or 10 percent of the division's workforce.
