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This Isn’t Pasta–It’s Star-Shaped Sand Found in Japan With A Huge Secret Hidden Inside
GNN is not beyond taking a moment to admire the majesty of nature, regardless of form, or in this case, size.
If you went to...
Adorable Dutch Webcam of Rescued Seals Is a Big Hit in Japan (WATCH)
This year, GNN has featured a variety of stories showing how viral posts on social media do a world of good, all around the...
Adrift for Days in an Inflatable Tube, Woman Rescued Off Coast of Japan by Passing Sailors
An amazing survival story comes from the southeast coastal waters of Japan where a Chinese woman survived days adrift at sea clinging to an...
Pioneering Zero-Emissions Hydrogen Fuel-Cell-Powered Ship Successfully Tested in Japan
A consortium of Japanese firms has conducted successfully a demonstration of the first ever zero-emissions ship above 20 gross tons.
Sailing 30 kilometers between the...
Bizarre New Plant Species Feeds on Fungi: First New Flora Species in 100 Years to Be Discovered in Japan
In botany, it's well-established that plants and fungi have multiple symbiotic relationships under the dirt of the forest floor, but a new species of...
Precocious Child Identifies Japanese Wolf Specimen Amid Museum Collection, Encouraged to Publish Scientific Paper
From Japan's metropolitan heart comes the story of a young woman with a love for nature getting her paws in the door of a...
Japanese Eels Found Living in Polluted River are Shining Example of Resilience
Running under the lights of a seemingly endless corridor of neon-lit advertising boards through a dense urban area of 2.7 million inhabitants, the Dotonbori...
Japan Moon Lander Comes Back to Life After Wonky Angle for its Solar Panel, but ‘Unprecedented Pinpoint Landing’
It's a case of five alive for the Japanese space program, when their craft, which was set to make them the fifth nation to...
Japan Earthquake ‘Miracle’ Reunites Arizona School Teacher With Her Japanese Host Family After 22 Years
After Japan’s 7.6 earthquake on January 1st, veteran educator Anne Hanson urgently sought to learn the fate of her former host family who live...
‘Miracle’ Evacuation from Burning Japanese Airplane Credited to ‘Disciplined’ Passengers and Crew
The next time you're aboard a plane watching the safety demonstrations, don't brush them off as unnecessary details of a catastrophe that won't save...
Spacefaring Japan May Become the 5th Country to Land on the Moon This Month
Mere months after India established itself as the fourth Lunar power, Japan is set to land on our nearest celestial body this month.
JAXA, or...
World’s Largest Experimental Fusion Reactor Generates First Plasma in Japan
The largest operational nuclear fusion reactor on Earth just produced its first plasma when it came online over the weekend in Japan.
A tokamak-style nuclear...
Scientists Discovered More Than 100,000 Ancient Coins at an Excavation Site in Japan
In the Kanto region of Central Japan, a trove of 100,000 ancient coins has been uncovered by city archaeologists, some of which date back...
World’s First ‘Tooth Regrowth’ Medicine Moves Toward Clinical Trials in Japan
A drug showing promise in animal trials could provide the world's first method to regrow human teeth, or create normal tooth development in children...
Engineers Make Clear Tape 60x Stronger, Yet Still Removable, Inspired by Ancient Japanese Paper-Cutting Art
Kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of cutting paper, has been adapted by researchers at Virginia Tech to make sticky tape much stronger, yet easier...
Researchers Capture Video of Deepest Fish Ever Recorded–Almost 5 Miles Below Surface Near Japan
An as-of-yet undescribed species of snailfish was recently recorded swimming about—a mind-boggling 5 miles (8 kilometers) under the surface of the ocean.
An unmanned submersible...
Japanese Startup to Launch Public Space-Viewing Balloon Flights to Rival SpaceX
A Japanese aerospace startup is hoping to make space tourism even more accessible with a balloon capsule that hovers up 14 miles above the...
Wife of WWII Soldier Spends Decades to Reunite Japanese Family With Photo Album He Found on Okinawa –LOOK
With persistence, belief, and the amount of sheer dumb luck normally needed to win the lottery, a Portland senior tracked down an Okinawan family...
Japanese Archaeologists Find Beautiful Bronze Mirror Buried With a 7-Foot-Long Sword
The Japanese penchant for wielding large curved swords goes back much further in time than previously thought, the new excavation of a 4th-century tomb...
Try Your Hand at Haiku: Newspaper in Japan Selects Poems Each Day from Reader Submission
Five minutes slow
My wall clock celebrating
A new year
That was today's poem for the English-language haiku section on the website of Japan's oldest daily newspaper,...