TOKYO — For a year, unmanned aerial vehicles planted, cultivated, and have recently harvested wheat in a field of one hectare in the UK. They didn’t get any help doing all this. Around the same time, the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s last book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” (John Murray, 2018) was published …

Tokyo — BBC News Türkçe Born in Japan, where unity and similarity are valued, Naomi was raised and trained in the US, a country known for cherishing individual success and diversity.   Judging by her Instagram posts, she looks like any other 20-year-old American girl: strutting her blond tinted hair at Times Square in New …

“…because Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future.” — William Gibson, science fiction writer who coined terms like “cyberspace” and “matrix”, 2001   As a researcher-turned-journalist, I have always been intrigued by Japan. I first came to this country in 1993 as a graduate student, and later worked here as a market …

HuffPost — May 21, 2017 Inspired by his oath of honesty when enlisting in the Navy, 21-year-old recruit Shaun Dougherty decided to be truthful about what had happened to him as a child. He finally opened up to his parents on his first Christmas break from the boot camp in 1991. Dougherty told them about …