Crying once a week can improve your mental health, according to a teacher encouraging Japanese students and workers to shed tears. Here’s how it reduces stress...

Kate Whiting 22 Oct 2018

Climate Change

Recent typhoons have caused Japan's cherry blossoms to bloom six months early

Extreme weather, including the most powerful storm to hit Japan in 25 years, has confused the island's fauna.

Reuters 18 Oct 2018

Japan

Japan has the world's most powerful passport

Japan has topped the recently refreshed Henley & Partners Passport Index.

Business Insider 15 Oct 2018

China

These are the 8 major forces shaping the future of the global economy

These forces are shaping the global economy into the future.

Jeff Desjardins · Visual Capitalist 11 Oct 2018

Climate Change

What a flooded Japanese airport tells us about rising sea levels

Even though they contribute to global warming, airports were not built with the effects of climate change in mind.

Kate Whiting 02 Oct 2018

Global Health

Two pioneers of an innovative cancer treatment have won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine

In the 1990s, the two scientists made key discoveries that led to the development of promising new cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs.

Stephen Johnson · Big Think 02 Oct 2018

Space

This Japanese robot has been taking photos as it rides an asteroid

The Hayabusa2 probes have landed on the Ryugu asteroid as it hurtles through space.

Kristin Houser · Futurism 25 Sep 2018

Fourth Industrial Revolution

These 10 Asian cities are the most prepared for the future

If sustainable urbanization is one of the paramount challenges of the 21st century, then Asia is ground zero for determining whether humanity can succeed.

Robert Muggah and Parag Khanna 05 Sep 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

This man has four arms - but he only controls two of them

Researchers in Japan argue that technology means two people can effectively share the same body.

Alex Gray 23 Aug 2018

Information and Entertainment

Buy more books than you ever read? The Japanese have a word for that

Many of us are guilty of obsessively buying books - and never reading them. The Japanese word tsundoku reflects this trend.

Derek Beres · Big Think 17 Aug 2018

Digital Communications

5G mobile is nearly here – but we should share networks to make it affordable

The next generation of mobile infrastructure is supposed to provide everyone with advanced digital services such as virtual reality. But without sharing networks, it may be too expensive

Peter Lyons and Frank Rayal 13 Aug 2018

Entrepreneurship

Asia's young entrepreneurs need help with the hustle

The region's youth are reaching working age faster than their countries can create jobs for them – threatening the strong growth of the recent past.

Haoliang Xu 10 Aug 2018

Japan

Feeling sleepy in the office? This Japanese technology detects tired workers and blasts cold air into the room

A collaboration between an air conditioning manufacturer and an electronics giant could make post-lunch drowsiness a thing of the past.

Johnny Wood 31 Jul 2018

Japan

Japan is defusing its demographic time bomb, but the US is building one of its own

The cost of childcare in the US is causing potential parents to think twice about having children.

Hilary Brueck · Business Insider 13 Jul 2018

Japan

This is why Japan's floods have been so deadly

Floods that killed at least 176 people were the country's worst weather disaster for 36 years.

Reuters Staff and Linda Sieg · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 12 Jul 2018

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