Yuri Kageyama

A tsunami warning is shown on TV in Yokohama, near Tokyo Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. Japan issued tsunami alerts Monday after a series of strong quakes in the Sea of Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan lowers tsunami warning after a series of earthquakes but tells people to stay away from coast

January 1, 2024 at 12:11 p.m.

Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes on Monday, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves...

Kazutaka Yonekura, chief executive of Tokyo startup Alt Inc., demonstrates his digital clone on a personal computer at his office in Tokyo, Aug. 17, 2023. His company is developing a digital double, an animated image that looks and talks just like its owner. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Digital clones and Vocaloids may be popular in Japan. Elsewhere, they could get lost in translation

September 9, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Kazutaka Yonekura dreams of a world where everyone will have their very own digital "clone" 鈥� an online avatar that could take on some of our work and daily tasks,...

Japan steps up push to get public buy-in to digital IDs

October 29, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

Japan has stepped up its push to catch up on digitization by telling a reluctant public they have to sign on or possibly lose access to their public health insurance....

FILE – American flags fly outside the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

U.S. futures dragged down by Snap, other falling social media

October 21, 2022 at 7:44 a.m.

A report that Elon Musk may cut almost 75% of Twitter’s workforce if and when he takes over, along with more grim news from Snap sent social media companies tumbling...

Japan’s former Princess Mako, third right, the elder daughter of Crown Prince Akishino, and her husband Kei Komuro, second right, are escorted to board an airplane to New York Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, at Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan鈥檚 former princess leaves for US with commoner husband

November 14, 2021 at 9:59 a.m.

A Japanese princess who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner college sweetheart left for New York on Sunday, as the couple pursued happiness as newlyweds and left...

People gather for a rally in Tokyo’s Shinjuku shopping district Sunday, July 18, 2021, to protest against the Olympics starting from July 23. They held signs that said No Olympics.(AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

First positive COVID tests for athletes in Olympic Village

July 18, 2021 at 11:57 a.m.

Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday.

Japanese Vaccine Minister Taro Kono wearing ...

Tokyo Games: Officials say cancelation, no fans still option

April 15, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Two top officials of Japan's ruling LDP party on Thursday said radical changes could be coming to the Tokyo Olympics. One went as far to suggest they still could be...

To cancel or not? IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Olympic Games.

January 13, 2021 at 9:15 a.m.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency last week for Tokyo and surrounding areas. Amid the surging virus, he again promised the postponed Tokyo Olympics would be 鈥渟afe...

The Tokyo Olympics hit the 200-days-to-go mark

January 4, 2021 at 7:31 a.m.

The countdown clock for the postponed Tokyo Olympics hit 200 days to go on Monday.

Toyota Motor Corp.鈥檚 human-shaped T-HR3 robot, ...

Toyota unveils upgraded version of its humanoid robot

December 29, 2019 at 12:00 p.m.

Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled an upgraded version of its human-shaped T-HR3 robot earlier this month.

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