Published on: 2025-06-05 05:03:44
Toto was founded in 1917 in Kitakyushu, an industrial port city at the tip of Japan’s southernmost main island. Like many Japanese companies, Toto excelled at adopting and refining overseas technologies, such as Western-style seated flush toilets, for the Japanese market. In the 1960s, Toto noticed a little-known bidet-like device being used in the medical industry in the United States. It began redeveloping the device in Japan, enlisting more than 300 employees to test and optimize aspects lik
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 21:09:00
In context: Japanese companies have long been known for clinging to outdated technologies such as floppy disk drives and fax machines, but that is now changing faster than ever. Even the venerable VGA standard – originally developed by IBM for its PS/2 computers – is on its way out, soon to disappear from modern laptops sold in the country. Panasonic recently introduced a new model in its "Let's Note" line of laptops. For the first time, the Japanese company has removed the legacy video port fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 00:33:49
Japan Post said Monday that it has launched a "digital address" system that links seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters to physical addresses. Under the system, users can input these seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites. People can obtain digital addresses by registering with Japan Post's Yu ID membership service. Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change. Their new addresses wi
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In March 2011, an earthquake triggered a massive tsunami along Japan’s coast. The surging waters caused the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to lose power. As a result, the cooling systems of three reactors failed, and their cores experienced a partial meltdown, releasing radiation into the environment in the second worst nuclear accident in history. While the earthquake and tsunami claimed over 18,000 lives, the nuclear accident itself didn’t cause any direct radiation deaths. However, 14 years la
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. It is as inevitable as a sunrise that in the hours after the Switch 2 launch next week, third-party sites like Ebay will be filled with listings for the new console. But in Japan, Nintendo has announced a new partnership with Japanese third-party retail sites to combat fraudulent Switch 2 listings. Mercari, Yahoo Auctions a
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Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Emulation is one of my biggest obsessions, whether I want to revisit a classic or check out a game I missed at the time. It’s also a fantastic way to experience games that never received an official English translation. Hundreds of retro games have been restricted to Japan over the last few decades. That meant you had to use an online translation guide or Google Lens to actually play it — a finicky experience at best. The good news is that fans have translated
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Universe Apollo, first 100,000 DWT supertanker, built by National Bulk Carriers at Kure, Japan. During WWII, the US constructed an unprecedented shipbuilding machine. By assembling ships from welded, prefabricated blocks, the US built a huge number of cargo ships incredibly quickly, overwhelming Germany’s u-boats and helping to win the war. But when the war was over, this shipbuilding machine was dismantled. Industrialists like Henry Kaiser and Stephen Bechtel, who operated some of the US’s mos
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If you look for information about the Macintosh Plus and its ROM, you’ll usually find that the ROM has a capacity of 128 KB and that it exists in three revisions. But that’s incorrect: there’s a fourth ROM, 256 KB in size, which includes fonts for kanji (Japanese characters). And I found (and preserved) this ROM. I’m Belgian, and the article was originally written in French before being translated automatically. I had talked about this mysterious ROM a few years ago. It’s documented by Apple
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Jargonic Sets New Standards for Japanese ASR 日本語で話そう。Jargonic is ready. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often excel in lab conditions but struggle in real-world enterprise environments—especially when it comes to linguistically complex languages like Japanese. Unlike English, Japanese doesn’t use whitespace (the spaces between words in a sentence) to separate words, making Word Error Rate (WER) less relevant as a benchmark. Instead, Character Error Rate (CER) becomes the primary met
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Japan unveils world’s first solar super-panel: More powerful than 20 nuclear reactors Renewable energy in Japan will receive a seismic shift via perovskite solar cells, the latest development that would change the way solar energy is viewed. Lightweight, flexible, and adaptable, these solar cells will provide a more viable means to producing energy within a city, responding to shortages of land and sustainable issues. Let’s see how Japan is benefiting from the PSC technology to bring about a gr
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Netflix has become a reliable platform for dating shows with a twist, like Love Is Blind, the one where you have to get engaged immediately, or Too Hot To Handle, the one where everyone has to be celibate. On the Japanese series Is She The Wolf? the big twist is more along the lines of The Traitors or The Mole: Planted among all of the legitimate contestants searching for love is a decoy. In the very first episode, you learn that one woman brought on the show is not allowed to fall in love, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 21:00:58
Absence only makes the heart grow fonder. If that idiom holds true, it means bad tidings for Americans looking to get their hands on the Switch 2. U.S. and Canada-based Nintendo fans will be some of the last in the world to have the opportunity to preorder the Nintendo Switch 2 at 12:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 24. If you want an inkling of how hectic events will be this week, take a gander at the hysteria of worldwide Switch 2 preorders. Nintendo itself indicated that even preorders through t
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An Active! Mail zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks on large organizations in Japan. Active! mail is a web-based email client developed initially by TransWARE and later acquired by Qualitia, both Japanese companies. While it's not widely used worldwide like Gmail or Outlook, Active! is often used as a groupware component in Japanese-language environments of large corporations, universities, government agencies, and banks. According to the vendor, Acti
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Shortages of the Switch 2 look increasingly likely after Nintendo admitted today that it “cannot fulfill” all of the preorder applications it has already received through its own Japanese store. In a statement on X via Nintendo’s Japanese account, president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the company’s storefront has received 2.2 million applications to preorder the new console in Japan alone. That’s a number that “far exceeds our expectations, and far exceeds the number of Nintendo Switch 2 c
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What just happened? In a landmark decision that signals a new era of regulatory scrutiny for global technology giants, Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google, accusing the company of violating the nation's anti-monopoly law by compelling smartphone manufacturers to preinstall its apps on Android devices. This marks the first time Japan has taken such action against a member of the so-called GAFAM group – Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Micros
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Think China’s got it all sewn up when it comes to EVs? Well, at least when it comes to micro cars, Japan still has a few tricks up its sleeve—and the Nissan Sakura is the power player in the market. Japanese automakers have generally tackled the electric transition with all the speed of a turning oil tanker. Toyota has, for example, steadfastly held out largely in the hopes that its gamble on solid-state batteries will play out. Nissan on the other hand threw its hat early into the game with t
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Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in central Japan, a handful of shops and restaurants, a smattering of homes, and a few rice fields line the Ichijo River as it snakes its way through a narrow valley protected on three sides by mountain ranges. Locals as well as tourists enjoy the valley’s scenic beauty, but on the surface there’s nothing
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Lazarus, Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichirō Watanabe‘s newest sci-fi anime series on Adult Swim, is the talk of the town in anime circles. A lot of the online chatter has focused on the compare-contrast territory between Watanabe’s two shows. But regarding Lazarus itself, some fans have noticed differences between the Japanese and U.S. releases, leaving them wondering if they are missing out on a potentially superior version of the series. An X/Twitter post by user SaeIssho points out scenes from
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is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. When Nintendo announced the Switch 2 would cost $450, my initial reaction was disappointment. “Why does it cost so much more?” I thought to myself. “Why does Japan get it cheaper?” my brain jealously added, once I learned that Nintendo would sell a Japan-only model for the equivalent of just $333. It felt like Nintendo was about to overcha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 23:20:06
Welcome to Cosmographia — a newsletter dedicated to exploring the world and our place in it. For the full map of posts, see here . After speaking with earlier this week, I have found myself sitting at my desk here in Edinburgh dreaming of Japan. As such, I decided to see if I couldn’t travel there vicariously through art. I began rooting around the archives of various museums and galleries until I came across this gem of a collection of 19th century photographs. These pictures, the work of s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 16:25:40
For the first time, Star Wars Celebration is being held in Japan this year. The new location is exciting all on its own, and it’s going to feel even more special with a food hall selling “exclusive, authentic Japanese dishes.” Lucasfilm posted the menu on Friday, which features a little something from all three film trilogies and The Mandalorian. For OG fans, you’ve got “It’s a Trap!” Takoyaki (octopus balls), Wookiee Yakisoba noodles, and Light and Dark onigiri balls. Prequel lovers can get th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 01:07:35
Incredible things have been happening in Japan. This is the country that gave us karaoke bars, sushi conveyors, and square watermelon — not to mention those high-tech toilets. It's also a world leader in public infrastructure, sporting wonders like the lofty Tokyo Sky Tree, the immense Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, and the 300-meter tall Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge. There's also the matter of the Shinkansen bullet train network, connecting riders to major cities across the cou
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TL;DR Nintendo has revealed the full specs for the Switch 2. The console has support for HDR10 and a variable refresh rate of up to 120Hz. It contains a 5,220mAh battery that offers approximately 6.5 hours of battery life. The long-awaited Direct showcase for the Nintendo Switch 2 has finally arrived. We now have plenty of information about the new features and the games coming to the system. The event also took a little time to provide a few details on the hardware. But if you want to know e
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First posted September 15, 2005 Revised December 1, 2015 A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt; they were wondering what had set off the waves. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the middle 199
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After reaching 1 million files in my Macintosh Magazine Media project, I thought it would be cool to post about something I found recently in those discs. I get a real buzz rediscovering something like this after more than 30 years have passed. It’s a sweet little point and click adventure game for Classic Macintosh called “Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons” by Mitsuo Isaka, about taking train rides through the Japanese countryside. You meet and interact with a variety of people and expl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-14 22:36:14
🌸 Typed Japanese If you can write TypeScript, you can understand Japanese! Typed Japanese is a TypeScript type-level library that enables the expression of complete Japanese sentences through the type system. It creates a domain-specific language (DSL) based on Japanese grammar rules, allowing a subset of grammatically correct natural language to be written and verified using TypeScript's compiler. This project also explores an intermediate format for AI in language learning. For example, LLM
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 21:00:06
Netflix has become a reliable platform for dating shows with a twist, like Love Is Blind, the one where you have to get engaged immediately, or Too Hot To Handle, the one where everyone has to be celibate. On the Japanese series Is She The Wolf? the big twist is more along the lines of The Traitors or The Mole: Planted among all of the legitimate contestants searching for love is a decoy. In the very first episode, you learn that one woman brought on the show is not allowed to fall in love, and
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What is this texture, I wondered, and why did I like it so much? I don't want to be the sort of person who gushes about a new kind of plastic. But here I am holding a new luxury travel shaver from Panasonic, catching feelings about it. The white version of Panasonic's Arc 5 Palm, a compact shaver released in September in the US but much earlier in Japan, is made with a newly developed material called Nagori, made from the concentrated minerals of seawater—a common byproduct of desalination plan
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Netflix has become a reliable platform for dating shows with a twist, like Love Is Blind, the one where you have to get engaged immediately, or Too Hot To Handle, the one where everyone has to be celibate. On the Japanese series Is She The Wolf? the big twist is more along the lines of The Traitors or The Mole: Planted among all of the legitimate contestants searching for love is a decoy. In the very first episode, you learn that one woman brought on the show is not allowed to fall in love, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 03:30:22
After a monthslong hiatus, the One Piece anime will be returning in April. Before that point, its English dub will make its own return and hit an impressive milestone. When the dub episodes start airing the first part of the “Egghead” arc on March 18, it’ll have caught up to its Japanese counterpart. For plenty of anime, English-dubbed episodes air weeks (usually four or more) after the Japanese version, which can help extend a show’s presence just a little longer between seasons. In One Piece’
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