A university in Japan's Kagawa Prefecture has found an innovative way to tackle food waste by transforming discarded udon ...

Intending to reduce food waste and design new local products, researchers in Kagawa, Japan, are turning discarded udon noodles into biodegradable "paper" using microorganisms. The process is helping ...

Polish co-production that had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, stars Hirose Suzu and Yoshida Yoh as the ...

The sums changing hands at these trade shows echo a global boom that many in the community jokingly refer to as Pokeflation.

There’s nothing wrong with film-makers leaving their comfort zone but the Japanese director’s latest effort just doesn’t work Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film is a bafflingly unsatisfying and unconvincing ...

(Photo courtesy of secretariat of Kasumigaura Marathon and International Blind Marathon) Mariko Ando, mayor of the city of Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, visited the Embassy of Ecuador in Tokyo's ...

A study of university students and recent graduates has revealed that writing on physical paper can lead to more brain activity when remembering the information an hour later. Researchers say that the ...

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Japanese has three scripts for different purposes—hiragana, katakana, and kanji—with notably more than 2,000 kanji in regular use, meaning that it is difficult to study for speakers of other languages ...

Lakhs of medical aspirants appeared for the NEET UG 2026 exam on Sunday, and as the test concluded, students across cities shared mixed reactions, ranging from “easy paper” claims to relief over ...

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of toilet paper are used around the world every year, quietly piling up on our shelves and in our bins. But this everyday habit comes with a hidden cost - putting ...