Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor number 2 at Fukushima’s nuclear plant has soared 26.7C in the last few hours. Worse: they don’t know why the temperature is increasing after being stabilised for so long. More »
The rising death rate in Japan has lengthened the average wait for cremation to roughly four days. That’s a long 96 hours to let you lay there and ripen. So what do you do after shuffling off this mortal coil? You get yourself to a corpse hotel, obviously. More »
Cleanup efforts around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are expected to require decades — up to 50 years, in fact. However, if a new radiation decontamination technology from Toshiba and IHI pans out, that date will come much, much sooner. More »
As Japan rebuilds their giant Gundam statue, Hajime Sakamoto remains unimpressed. He wants to build a working Gundam, and hopes his company’s 13 foot humanoid robot — complete with room for a human pilot — is a step in the right direction. More »
Good lord. First it was glow-stick mouthguards. Then it was temporary tooth tattoos. Now, well now it’s a tiny LED that sits in your nostril and illuminates every time you breath. More »
If this monstrous snaking course is what slides are like at Japanese playgrounds, my mind probably won’t even be able to begin to comprehend the magnitude of their swingsets. I imagine they must tower over skyscrapers. More »
A month into its cover-your-eyes scale accounting scandal, Olympus has been officially linked to the Japanese Yakuza, according to a memo from Japanese officials. Here’s how things unravelled so fast. More »
For the first time since the tsunami-induced meltdown at a Fukushima power plant, Japanese health officials have discovered excessive concentrations of radioactive caesium in rice harvested from the region. More »
