Japan Science & Technology News

He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him. Mario, the pot-bellied Italian plumber with a penchant for rescuing princesses, collecting golden coins...

At the end of last year, Bright House officials announced that by end of 2009, customers would have 100 high definition channels to choose from. It was an ambitious pronouncement at the time because Bright House only offered 37 HD...

Sanyo Electric Co said Tuesday it plans to more than quadruple its photovoltaic cell production capacity in six years to 1.5 million kilowatts in fiscal 2015. Sanyo, the 11th-largest PV cell producer in the world in terms of production volume...

TOKYO: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans, as it wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the...

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The Japanese are forever coming up with revolutionary concepts and ideas that make life more comfortable and the gadgets make things simple. The latest ambitious venture of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in the field of harnessing solar...

Nintendo Co Ltd will drop the price of its popular Wii game system from 249 U.S. dollars to 199 dollars, starting this Sunday, according to U.S. media reports Wednesday.      The Kyoto-based company made the decision just after Microsoft and...

Analysis of sales figures by research firm NPD Group suggested that sales of Windows 7 in the United States were 234% higher than when Vista launched in January 2007. "In a slow environment for packaged software Windows 7 brought a...