TECHNOLOGY

Riken institute said Japan’s Fugaku remains the world’s fastest supercomputer in international rankings released twice a year.

Japan’s traditional wooden architectural techniques are set to be recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Honda Motor plans to start selling the world’s first commercially available Level 3 automated cars by the end of March 2021. Level 3 vehicles can drive autonomously by detecting the environment around them, not needing driver input.

The press got to join a test-run of East Japan Railway Company's next-generation bullet train, ALFA-X, on October 27.

Officials tested a system at Tokyo Dome that uses state-of-the-art technology to measure congestion in indoor arenas.

Electronics firm Sharp has developed face shields that do not fog up or glare like conventional products do.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledges to aim for Japan to become a carbon-neutral society by 2050 in his first policy speech in parliament.

Researchers in Japan used the supercomputer Fugaku to simulate how the novel coronavirus spreads, looking at a case in which four people are sitting at a dining table and talking without masks on.