Right, it's not quite as cool as the Laughing Man's live camera hacking, but it's as close as we'll get for a while. Dr. Isao Echizen at Japan's National Institute of Informatics has spent the better ...

The rapid rise of facial recognition technology has prompted widespread privacy concerns. But now Japanese researchers have developed a tool aimed at countering the surveillance tactic—the world’s ...

Autumn is only in the season called "autumn of appetite", and food related festivals are held throughout the country. In Echizen town of Fukui prefecture famous for the Echizen crab brand, from ...

Until now, this little-visited area of Japan has barely registered on tourist itineraries. Now a new shinkansen route is set to see all that change. Don’t expect that statistic to remain, though. With ...

ECHIZEN, Fukui Prefecture--A “grand experiment” has kicked off here to preserve manga paintings for 1,000 years using special “washi” paper from the town. The aim is to determine for how long the ...