J-STORIES - The typical image of public toilets is a negative one: dirty and drab. But the Tokyo Toilet Project...

J-STORIES - Sashimi is a Japanese delicacy that has gained global popularity.  But the slices of raw seafood from which...

J-STORIES - Pokemon character Diglett is a peace-loving mole who likes to cultivate and enrich the soil in which he lives. So,...

J-STORIES - “What is your dream?” That was the question posed by a Japanese social entrepreneur to 201 young people...

J-STORIES - Researchers at a university in central Japan have developed a new way to preserve genetic material, pathing the...

J-STORIES - It sounds like the story of "Hansel and Gretel," but this is no fairy tale: A Japanese startup...

J-STORIES - Masaomi Suzuki, a second-generation construction company president, witnessed firsthand the damage caused by the massive earthquake that struck...

J-STORIES - Residents in a central Japanese city are getting creative with their trash, creating an additional waste category to...

J-STORIES - There are pasta sheets for making lasagna and seaweed sheets for making sushi rolls, not to mention pastry...

J-STORIES - As a graduate student, Kazuhide Sekiyama researched artificial spider silk, hoping to develop a strong and flexible material for...