A private system will rate Japan's onsen on five criteria for the water in the tub and name 21 three-star sites on October 26. How it differs from notices required since 2005 and a label abolished in 2019.

Cut at 26 episodes in 1974 and saved by reruns, Yamato (Star Blazers in the U.S.) gets a new film from Evangelion's Hideaki Anno and 2199 director Yutaka Izubuchi. No release date yet.

Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun FINALS is back after about four months. Creator Yoichi Takahashi also owns the real Nankatsu SC, which finished third and has one October tournament left to keep its JFL hopes alive.

About 1,000 crows roosted on the Asian Games race walk course in Nagoya, and a hospital ruled out firecrackers, so the city hired a falconer. In Japan, scaring off birds is a falconer's everyday job.

High-speed cameras trade detail for duration. A University of Tokyo team packs frames tightly at first and spreads them out later, linking roughly 5 orders of magnitude in time with 11 frames in a single shot.

Some AI GPUs are now far weaker at the FP64 math science needs. A Shibaura Institute of Technology method rebuilds it from low-precision units; NVIDIA lists up to 175 TFLOPS on a B200. How it works, and its limits.

Spoon-leaved sundews with cut leaves closed their flowers more tightly when touched, in an indoor test of 15 and 17 plants. What carries that 'memory' is still unknown.

Kanazawa University and AIST report the first vertical diamond MOSFET with an inversion-layer channel. Diamond transistors that switch off this way existed by 2016; what is new is building one vertically.

Japan has a record-low 13.29 million children, yet its toy market hit a record ¥1.1664 trillion on demand from adults and tourists. Why Toys R Us is reportedly handing about 150 stores to Don Quijote's parent.

MARVEL | KADOKAWA plans a Shibuya-set Spider-Man manga for 2026, detailed the day Shueisha's 14 Marvel volumes left e-book stores. The story goes back to a 1978 giant robot.

Tochigi police drop scent discrimination from their police dog exam after zero call-outs in 2025, as searches for missing people doubled from 61 to 120. Who do police dogs look for where you live?

JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan a 400 MW AI data center at JERA's Chiba gas plant, powered without the public grid. Why there, what gas means, and the US case regulators blocked.

Cyclo-octasulfur, the yellow sulfur of volcanoes, is made and stored in fat droplets in mouse and human cells. It won't dissolve in water and breaks apart when measured; a chemistry capsule caught it.

Bridgestone left F1 in 2010 and lost a bid to return in 2023. From December it supplies every Formula E car, on tyres it says are 65% recycled and renewable, a figure that partly relies on mass-balance accounting.

On October 1, Nidec named its conventional management approach, built on expansion in every direction and short-term targets, as an internal cause of a ¥632.1 billion writedown, and agreed to sell a unit to Carlyle.

A Ukrainian soldier scored Japanese snacks and cup noodles out of 10. His zine was reprinted in at least seven times the quantity expected. Who sent the box, and what instant noodles already meant in Ukraine.

Extinct in Japan's wild in 1971, the Oriental stork now numbers 728, and only 49 were released. Most hatched in the wild, fed by low-pesticide paddies that cost farmers work and yield. Now they nest on power poles.

NEC plans several hundred laser-linked satellites, the Yomiuri reports. Japan's Kirari made a two-way laser link in 2005, but Starlink now has about 11,100. Why Japan still wants its own.

Niitsu in Niigata was Japan's top oil field a century ago. Oil still seeps from old wells whose pipes no one can find, and taxpayers fund the cleanup, unlike in Alberta, where the industry pays.

A Japanese headline put this year's El Niño losses in the trillions. The figure traces back to a 2023 estimate of $5.7 trillion for the 1997–98 event. Why estimates differ 100-fold, and a think tank's own correction.

Minoru Kiuchi, Japan's economy minister and long seen as a reflationist, says Abenomics-style reflation is over. The BOJ was already at 1.25%. Yet Japan still hasn't declared deflation over.

Japan's gene-edited GABA tomato opened its field. It wasn't the first gene-edited food sold (US soybean oil, 2019), but the first CRISPR food shoppers could buy. How Japan's rules compare with the EU's.