Japanese engineers have successfully test-fired a space rocket engine, which runs on — not even joking — locally-sourced cow poop. A Japanese startup called Interstellar Technologies Inc.

Japan has long been a leader in robotics technology, particularly in the industrial sphere. Today, though, there is a growing focus on the “human side” of robots, such as their relationship ...

WASHINGTON--Japan has once again scored poorly on its efforts to stop human trafficking and forced labor in a U.S. State Department report released this week, failing to move up in the ...

Japan may be one of the few democracies in Asia and a critical ally of the oldest democracy in the world, but it has rarely been keen to promote human rights and democracy overseas. Indeed ...

Japan's Science and Technology Agency (Tokyo) has released draft legislation that prohibits the use of cloning techniques for human reproductive purposes. It also bars implantation of chimeric ...

Japan has taken its first step towards introducing a ban on human cloning. Last month the Science Council, an advisory panel of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho ...

Japan is joining the global trend toward pushing companies to prevent human rights violations in their supply chains. The government plans to establish a system next fiscal year for giving ...

[Charles] from [Mad Cow] wrote us that there was about a 10:1 ratio between the drive wheel and the arms of the people-flinger. So if the cattle were pulling at 3 km/h, the human angular velocity ...

A Japanese space startup has taken a big step toward developing its first orbital rocket — which will be powered by gas from cow dung. Interstellar Technologies Inc. recently performed a ...

A Japanese space start-up has achieved a major breakthrough by testing a prototype rocket engine, powered entirely by fuel derived from cow dung. This experiment, conducted in the rural town of ...

Nazuna Omiya, left, and Fumina Matsuda, who met and hit it off at the Tora-san Summit in Tokyo in November 2023. (Photo courtesy of Matsuda)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An iconic Japanese movie series ...

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States jointly called for proposals on the theme of “Human-Centered Data for Disaster Resilience” ...