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Japan, say hello to Square. The mobile payments platform has just announced that it is now available in your country. Square is available in Japan with the supp...

Send Odors Through Your Smartphone With Scentee

Smell-O-Vision was a short lived idea in the 1960s that never really took off. Even so, people have tried to communicate s...

Abenomics Bra Increases Bustline, Economy

Lingerie makers in Japan have come up with a clever marketing strategy to get the word out about w...

This Baseball-Playing Robot Is Leading The Charge In Artificial Brain Reearch

Super Baseball 2020 predicted a future where robots and cybernetically enhanced humans competed on the diam...

7.2 Quake Off Japan Rocks Northern Islands

It seems that the planet's recent surge of large earthquakes isn't quite over. The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a...

Japanese ISP Now Offers 2Gbps Internet, Twice The Speed Of Google Fiber

The Internet infrastructure in the U.S. is pathetic. It's slow, expensive and run by companies that...

Google Loses Lawsuit Over Autocomplete in Japan

A Tokyo District Court has ruled that Google must alter its autocomplete results...

Google Street View Takes You to Abandoned Fukushima Town of Namie-machi

Google is announcing another batch of fresh Street View imagery, this time coming from Japan. More specifically, Namie-machi, a small city in Fukushima Prefecture that's in the...

Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ Gets A Permanent Price Cut, Launches In Europe And Japan

The Kindle Fire HD 8.9" launched late last year for a rather affordable $300. To perh...

Google Expands Public Alerts to Japan to Help with Natural Disaster Preparedness

Google has expanded its new public alert program to Japan, a country that is still feeling the effects of a massive hurricane and tsunami that hit two years ago. Google Public A...

Apple Launches iBookstore In Japan With Exclusive Titles

During the iPad Mini event last year, Apple announced native Asian language support would b...

Kinect Brings My Worst Nightmare To Life

It's been well established that I'm scared of a lot of things. Dolls,...

This Smart Trash Can Makes Sure You Never Miss A Basket Again

There's something inherently fun about trying to throw wads of paper into a trash can from across the room. As kids, we held impromptu trash basketball tournaments to see who was t...

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