Imagine gliding across the rolling countryside at incredible speeds, yet feeling almost nothing. There's no rumble beneath your feet, no clatter of wheels on rails. In fact, there are no wheels at all ...

Illustration by James Ng. As noted in Kyoko Kurita’s “Meiji Japan’s Y23 Crisis and the Discovery of the Future: Suehiro Tetcho’s Nijusan-nnen mirai-ki” (Harvard Journal of Asiatic ...

Japan didn’t invest enough in information and communications technology, and as its electronics industry shrank, Japanese engineers flocked to foreign companies.

By the time World War II began in Asia, both the Mitsubishi K-1 and K-2 were considered obsolete. During World War II, Imperial Japan had its fair share of success with multiengine bombers, though ...

Eliminating the entry barriers faced by women in STEM careers would significantly boost the country’s productivity growth Japan has one of the oldest populations globally, with its working-age ...