A forest reserve area of about 240,000 hectares will be established in national forests extending from the Daisetsu to Hida....
15 Sep 9:47 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan is known as the biggest consumer of tuna. Be it raw for sushi or sashimi or fried, broiled or canned, tuna is an impo....
31 Aug 11:48 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Tokyo’s first electric-powered taxis hit the streets on Thursday Two ‘Zero-taku’ (Zero-taxis), so called because the....
29 Mar 10:14 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world will come together to call for action on climate change by d....
28 Mar 10:18 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Nano-Optonics Energy Inc., a closely held energy technology firm, plans to start producing electric vehicles next year, be....
25 Mar 1:19 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Walt Disney World in Florida may be the next stop for bullet-train makers in Japan and China. Central Japan Railway Co. an....
17 Mar 12:03 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan opposes plans to list the Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is highly prized in sushi and sashimi, as a most-endangered species and to ban ....
23 Feb 8:25 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Seeking to turn an environmental problem into an economic opportunity, high-tech companies in resource-poor Japan are mining mountains of t....
19 Dec 6:40 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan said Wednesday it would offer 1.75 trillion yen (19.5 billion dollars) to developing nations under a climate deal, offering a major b....
17 Dec 12:25 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled on Monday the plug-in version of the latest Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle with extended range when it r....
16 Dec 6:04 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan needs to step up and take a more prominent and visible leadership role at the U.N. climate talks or the conference could end in failu....
13 Dec 10:46 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one d....
12 Dec 4:57 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japan’s envoy to climate change talks expressed doubt Wednesday that a final agreement would be reached at the UN summit on tackling globa....
3 Dec 1:45 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Engineers test eco-friendly light emitting diodes (LED) in a 113-year-old lighthouse in Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo, on Nov. 19, 2009. The....
26 Nov 1:41 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within m....
20 Nov 1:00 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent]