A hotel chain installs a camera in its trash bins to spy on what guests are tossing. Turns out its breakfast croissants are too big. Many are going to waste — along with profits.
Tesla is making a risky bet if it shifts efforts on its small-car vehicle platform to robotaxis as the successful introduction of vehicles that drive themselves is in the distant future, and the technology faces engineering and regulatory hurdles.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday said that he aims for a stricter political funds control law, following a high-profile money scandal involving factions of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Operations were resumed in all sections of the Noto Tetsudo railway on Saturday after the train line was damaged in a massive earthquake that rocked the Noto Peninsula in central Japan on New Year's Day.
With its near-idyllic setting and creative, hyper-local cuisine, Terroir Ai to Ibukuro ticks just about all the boxes you can think of as the ideal destination restaurant.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday she had "productive conversations" with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on the bilateral economic relationship after two days of meetings in China's southern export hub of Guangzhou.
Iran vowed Friday to avenge Israel’s killing of senior commanders and other officers of its elite Quds Force, at a public funeral held for the dead men, elevating fears of open war but leaving unsaid how it would retaliate or when.
The United States, Australia, Japan and the Philippines will hold joint naval and air drills in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, their defense chiefs said in a statement, as they deepen ties to counter China's growing assertiveness in the region.
The United States says next week's summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will bring a "historic" upgrade in defense ties between the long-time allies. On Wednesday in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss plans to reform the U.S. military command in Japan to make it better able to function with Japanese forces in a crisis and to announce steps to allow more joint development, and potentially co-production, of military and defense equipment.
Nissan Motor is no longer eligible for a tax break supporting companies that raise wages, after the automaker underpaid its contractors by about ¥3 billion ($20 million), the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.
Bird flu outbreaks among dairy cows in multiple states, and at least one infection in a farmworker in Texas, have incited fears that the virus may be the next infectious threat to people.
Earthquakes are always unnerving. But for some, the aftershocks can go on beyond the actual tremors: People can experience anxiety, sleep problems and other health issues in the hours and days after a quake.
In March last year, Maria Fernanda Cardoso flew from Sydney to Tokyo with her husband. They took a 10-hour flight, then a second hour-long flight, and then were driven to a town called Suzu at the tip of Ishikawa Prefecture, where they spent four days researching the area.
German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little known program. What he found when he investigated has sent shudders across the software world and drawn attention from tech executives and government officials.
Muhammad said he had found a better life in Russia. After emigrating from Tajikistan last fall, he began driving delivery vans in Siberia, enrolled his children in a local school, applied for a Russian passport and started planning to buy an apartment with the savings from his much higher salary.
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near New York City on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, shaking buildings up and down the East Coast and surprising residents in an area that rarely experiences notable seismic activity.
Along with taking in temples and cherry blossoms, Tokyo visitors can now join a curated pilgrimage of the city's more modern wonders: its public toilets.
The U.S. and China resumed a defense dialog aimed at preventing an inadvertent clash, part of a broader push to resume contacts up and down the chain of command that were severed as tensions spiked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea in recent years.
“I didn’t want to figure it out, I didn’t want to know. But I can’t turn away from the truth.”
Temperatures are rising, and the nights are becoming more alive. Researchers are witnessing more nighttime activity among numerous animals across the globe — alpine ibex in Europe, cheetahs in Africa and the white-lipped peccary (a cute pig-like creature) in South America — to escape extreme heat associated with climate change.
Nearly six months since it began, Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip is dragging on. So, too, is the tenure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In Israel, some are now asking: Are the two linked?
