-
ANA Opens World’s 1st Store Where Customers can Shop Remotely through an Avatar Robot in Tokyo
ANA partnered with Mitsui Fudosan and Isetan Mitsukoshi opened today the world’s first store equipped with avatar robot across the dynamic Tokyo neighborhood of Nihonbashi. ANA HD avatars will be featured in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district, starting with the limited pop-up “avatar-in store” which will be open from December 5 to December 24.
-
Panasonic Green Air Conditioners Cools Down Tokyo As It Heats Up
Panasonic will be creating Cool Spots in the City of Tokyo, contributing to the creation of a comfortable, bustling city in the summer of 2020. Between May and September 2018, in Japan, nearly 100,000 people required ambulance assistance for such health threat according to the announcement made by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency on…
-
Tokyo Disneyland Gives Sneak Preview of New Beauty and the Beast Attraction Set to open in spring 2020
Operator of the Tokyo Disney Resort – Oriental Land Co, on Thursday gave reporters a sneak peak of a new Beauty and the Beast attraction under construction that is set to open in spring 2020. Beauty and the Beast theme park at Tokyo Disneyland occupy around 4.7 hectares. The park is based on the beast’s…
-
Japanese man marries virtual reality singer Hatsune Miku hologram in Tokyo
Akihiko Kondo’s mother refused an invitation to her only son’s wedding in Tokyo this month, but perhaps that isn’t such a surprise: he was marrying a hologram. For the 35-year-old soft-spoken’s mother, it wasn’t something to celebrate as her son married a virtual reality singer named Hatsune Miku. None of Kondo’s relatives attended his wedding…
-
NTT and Tokyo Tech Develops World’s Fastest 100 Gbps Wireless Transmission which is 400 times the Current LTE and Wi-Fi
NTT and Tokyo Institute of Technology have succeeded in developing the world’s fastest 100 gigabit per second wireless transmission data rate. NTT and Tokyo Institute of Technology developed an ultra high-speed IC for wireless front-end that operates on a terahertz frequency band in the 300 GHz band. It is expected that unused terahertz waves can be…
-
Ingeniously recycled mobile phones to be used to forge medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games
Kohei Uchimura, Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, recently disclosed to The Japan Times that organizers of the Olympic games have decided to use recycled mobile phones to fashion Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
-
Tokyo airport now has toilet paper for smartphones
Talk abut some slick marketing. NTTDoCoMo one of Japan’s largest mobile operator has developed a smartphone only toilet paper. These special rolls are installed at the toilets of Tokyo’s Narita airport. Their purpose, well, to clean your smartphone screen and rid the phone of germs. The toilet paper is printed with vital information which include…
-
The Tokyo of 2045 will brave climate change, feature a mile-high tower
The future is bleak when it comes to the condition of the cities of the world, thanks to the historic abuse we have put nature through. With rising water levels, climate change seems to be the biggest threat to the cities of the world, which contain a large portion of the world population. This is…
-
Tokyo’s Narita International Airport to test megaphone translators
Japan surely receives a large number of international travelers and communication is often a barrier. While many Japanese do manage to communicate with the confused bunches of tourists and international business travelers in English, it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea to understand the announcements at public locations such as airports. Citing this challenge, Japan’s Narita…
-
This Japanese café is a haven for space geeks
If constellations and galaxies are your idea of morning-after chatter then Japan’s where your next date should be! This amazing café that is set up, albeit temporarily, recreates some visuals from a planetarium. Besides the star-studded interiors, the drinks in themselves are themed around planetary bodies and colored and shaded to represent their namesakes. Themed…
