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Poop Powered Bike To Tour Japan

Scientists in Japan are preparing to tour the country using a poop powered bike that was literally built out of bike parts and a toilet seat where the driving sits. The bio-gas powered bike known as Neo was ... continue

Japan Promises To Kill Innocent Whales, Will Ramp Up Security

Japan whaling vessels will be heading into the Antarctic in December to once again hunt for whales. Last year the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society lost one of their own vessels after it sank during a collision with a Japanese ... continue

Japan Planning to Kill More Whales in Antarctica (IFAW Reports)

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is disappointed that Japan's whaling fleet is reportedly planning a return to Antarctica later this year to kill more whales for its dying market. Reports are saying that whaling will continue ... continue

Meet The New “Noah’s Ark” Built Specifically For Japanese Tsunami’s

After the last earthquake and tsunami rocked the coast of Japan one enterprising company chose to jump into action and build a safety device for the next Tsunami. Named "Noah" after Noah's Ark the contraption, built by a ... continue

787 Dreamliner from Boeing Makes First Delivery in Japan

After years of setbacks, aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing delivered the first 787 Dreamliner to Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Sunday. Although the Dreamliner had originally been slated for delivery in 2008, numerous delays - the most recent ... continue

Japanese Students Show Changes in Outlook Since March Triple Disaster

A survey done on 700 Japanese students of the Soka Gakkai Tohoku have shown changes in attitudes after the March 11, 2011 "triple disaster" of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. When seeking employment, the students' key purpose had ... continue

Japan: Typhoon Talas Leaves 37 Dead, 56 Missing

A powerful typhoon that ripped through western Japan left at least 37 people dead and more than 50 missing Sunday, after swollen rivers swept away buildings and landslides crumbled houses. Typhoon Talas, Japan's 12th tropical cyclone of the ... continue

Hulu Launches Monthly Plan In Japan, Charges Nearly $20

Hulu may be on the selling block at the moment but that hasn't stopped the company from launching their premium monthly subscription service in Japan. According to Hulu the Japanese service located at Hulu.jp brings "hundreds of premium feature ... continue

$78 Million In Lost Cash Returned After Japan Tsunami

It has been five months since a deadly earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Japan and while many families lost their homes and were displaced from the cities where they lived that hasn't stopped them from ... continue

Scientists discover that Antarctica ice shelf badly damaged by Japanese earthquake

Japan is still recovering from the major earthquake and its follow-up tsunami that struck the country back in March 2011 but the effects of that natural disaster is having far wider effects than just the nuclear reactors that are ... continue

Japanese Minister: Fukushima Radiation Won’t Delay Plant Shutdown

While record radiation has recently been detected at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, Goshi Hosono, the Japanese Minister in charge of the disaster has announced that plans to contain the radiation and shut down the plan will ... continue

The White-Eye bird can poop live snails – who knew.

Science is pretty incredible and for every great discovery there are probably ten WTF were they thinking types of discoveries and this one out of Japan definitely rates in the second batch. It seems that for the longest ... continue

Fukushima Water Filtration Plan Halted After Several Hours

Tokyo Electric was confident that their water filtration system at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant would save the plant from further devastation, unfortunately after just five hours of operation the company was forced to shut down the ... continue

Japan Kicks Russell Brand Out Of The Country

10 years ago Russell Brand broke the law in Japan and this week those actions came back to bite him in the butt. The British funny man traveled to the country to watch his wife Katy Perry ... continue

Would you make out with a machine?

As soon as we got an internet to send email, pictures and eventually video, people started using it to get their rocks off, send titillating texts and cybersex was immediately invented. While the genre of web-gratification has remained constant ... continue