Tokyo University
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Japan’s ‘mad scientists’ pursue a cyborg-friendly future
- Innovation
- August 9, 2018, 03:38
Science fiction has warned us, repeatedly and enthusiastically, about men like Shoji Takeuchi. A well-meaning genius creates an innocent-looking inven(...)

Something rotten: what has gone wrong in Japanese corporate culture?
- Economy
- January 3, 2018, 13:37
On an otherwise ordinary afternoon in mid-December, the Hakata to Tokyo express pulled into Nagoya and a thousand passengers were ordered off the trai(...)

Japanese firm replaces office workers with artificial intelligence
- Technology
- January 12, 2017, 06:00
A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are(...)

Japanese firm replaces workers with artificial intelligence
- Asia-Pacific
- January 5, 2017, 16:09
Another step towards a future in which workers are replaced by machines has been taken at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are(...)

Japes with the Japanese: An Irishman’s Diary about sake and Swift
- Opinion
- November 4, 2016, 01:00
I embarked on a voyage into darkest south county Dublin the other night, on a potentially dangerous mission. It involved first a bike trip to St Steph(...)

Advert shows girl being fattened up, turned into eel and cooked
- Offbeat
- September 27, 2016, 13:35
A city in Japan has been forced to pull a online promotional video intended to boost the local eel industry following criticism that it demeaned women(...)