Technology

Nissan Wants an Avatar in Every Car by 2025

Will people be projecting themselves into your car in six years? Engineers at Nissan are betting yes.

A long-serving train car on Tokyo Metro's Ginza line isn't heading entirely for the scrapyard: a part of its gets to live on in the station.

If you were planning to join the Buddhist priesthood because a robot took your job...welp, I've got some bad news for you.

Cyborg baggage handlers? An influx of foreign visitors forces one airline to find an inventive way to handle the load.

Cashless payments are accelerating, even among the elderly - and it appears the one yen coin might not survive their onslaught.

From drone-riding Buddhas to monk rentals on Amazon, Japan's temples and shrines are finding unique ways to stay solvent during uncertain times.

Less than 20% of all financial transactions in Japan are cashless. Learn why that is, and why the government wants to change it.

A double whammy posed by two looming events has Japan's IT community wondering how they'll ever be able to test their code in time for the Olympics.