Japan enshrines male-only succession for the shrinking imperial family

Japan’s parliament has enacted a historic revision to the 19th-century Imperial House Law by insisting only paternal-lineage ...

A centuries-old festival in Japan brings Shinto traditions and towering floats to the streets

It comes as he rides atop one of the towering floats pulled through the streets in a centuries-old procession in Japan. This ...
Stars and Stripes

Marine air base in Japan adds GPS approach to bypass cultural landmark

New GPS approach procedures at MCAS Iwakuni improve military and civilian flight safety in poor weather while protecting ...

An excavation in Taiwan searches for remains of Japanese soldiers lost in WWII ship sinking

Heads bowed, experts offered their respects on Monday ahead of an excavation aimed at recovering the remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II in so ...
NDTV

A Japanese AI System Reportedly Beat Claude 5 On Certain Benchmarks

Sakana, a Japanese AI company has launched a new AI system called Fugu which does not rely on a single model. It can coordinate multiple AI models through a single API to solve complex tasks. The ...
Japan Today

Kifune Myojin shrine linked to love and separation, shaped by local legends and folklore traditions

Japan is home to hundreds of thousands of shrines (jinja), each with its own history, legends and local traditions. In Kanazawa, one of the country’s most celebrated cultural destinations, a small ...
AOL

The Disrespectful Mistake Tourists Must Avoid Making While Visiting A Shrine In Japan

Japan is a dream destination for a lot of travelers, but it can be a little trickier to prepare for in comparison to other places. And while it's important to research things like the best time to ...
Yahoo Finance

Japanese Yen falls to 40-year low against dollar

Investing.com -- The Japanese yen dropped to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar since 1986 on Monday, falling as much as 0.1% to 161.96 per dollar. The currency broke past the 161.95 level last ...
Global Times

Jun Zhengping says ‘war criminal flag’ prohibited under FIFA rules, World Cup not shrine of militarism over Japanese fans’ display of ‘rising sun’ flag

A Chinese netizen posted on social media discussing the issue with a screenshot of the live broadcast of the Japan-Tunisia match showing the "rising sun" flag inside the stadium in Monterrey, Mexico.
moneycontrol.com

Japanese AI startup Sakana launches Fugu, claims it beats banned Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in coding benchmarks

Japanese artificial intelligence startup Sakana AI has unveiled a new AI platform called Fugu, which the company says can outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on certain coding benchmarks. Unlike ...
TechCrunch

a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most

Energy storage startup Base Power began selling its massive home battery systems to residents of Illinois yesterday, Canary Media reported. Crucially, it’ll be the startup’s first foray into the grid ...
Indiatimes

Japanese company Sakana whose Fugu AI model matched Claude Fable 5’s performance shares a message for all countries banned from using Anthropic's most powerful AI models

Fugu, Japanese for pufferfish, is itself a language model trained to call other LLMs from an agent pool, including instances of itself recursively. You send a request to one endpoint, and Fugu decides ...