Making a continuous noise like a bee, the aircraft flies up. It can not only hover, but also go up and down and move forward, backward, right and left. This is a drone, a kind of aircraft without a pilot…
JAPAN, SCIENCE
Drone School
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“Slowly move it to the left.” Following the voice of the instructor, the student turns the drone smoothly to the left. The area where the pair is operating the drone is large enough for it freely fly around. This is the Tokyo branch of Drone School…
CULTURE, JAPAN, LIFESTYLE
Oseibo: a gift that connects a person with another
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At the end of the year, tidy wrapped goods—ranging from fruit juices to canned goods to even laundry detergents—are lined up in the corners of department stores and supermarkets. These gifts are sent at the end of the year to…
CULTURE, JAPAN
Fulfilling the Role of the Fourth Estate: The Future of Digital Journalism
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The steady, painful decline of Japan’s print journalism is a long-told story of an industry struggling to adapt to changing times. According to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the total newspaper circulation in Japan has been decreasing over…
EDUCATION, JAPAN
HLAB
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“We aim to create an opportunity for the participating high school and university students to become each others’ role models and take time to reflect and rethink their values”, Hidetaka Kawada, a first year studying at Keio University in the Faculty of Law,…
JAPAN
Japanese Women’s Happiness: Is it not Marriage anymore?
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Do Japanese people not want to get married? A decreasing birthrate and aging population are few of the reasons why people tend to marry later or do not get married at all. This is now a serious social problem in Japan. According to “Population Projection for Japan”: 2011(National Institute of Population and Social Security Research), nine out of ten young Japanese…