The science and technology ministry is drafting a policy in which the private sector will participate in the building and ...

KITA-KYUSHU--Once Japan’s most feared yakuza gang ... a shelter for poor people and a welfare center for locals under a Kibo no Machi (Town of hope) project. A lawyer who fought to rid the ...

LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kibo module together with four other experimental mini-satellites in December, NASA officials said in the Jan. 7 statement.

Notably, Kibo is the largest component of the space station, and it is also Japan's first manned facility in space for long-term astronaut activity. Operational for over a decade and a half ...

Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli works to retrieve Media Bags for the SS: Engineering Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Microtissues with Metabolic Regulators in Space to Promote Cardiomyocyte Maturation ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.