We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between January 17 ...

As the author of Frommer’s guides to Japan for many years, I’ve inspected more hotel rooms than anyone in their right mind should ever have to see. But even I’ve been flummoxed about what to expect in ...

An autonomous robot guides shared cars inside Toyota's new "Woven City", a high-tech village opened to test autonomous driving and other futuristic developments ...

TOKYO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Visitors can step back in time to Japan's samurai era in an new Tokyo exhibition that uses cutting-edge technology to bring to life the work of iconic artist Hokusai. "Hokusai ...

Instead of gunpowder, railgun technology uses electromagnetic energy to fire a projectile along a set of rails at ultra-high velocity. Instead of using gunpowder to shoot an artillery shell, railgun ...