Kyushu University's thin-film circuits bend with electricity, grab each other, connect and let go. They hold 6.1 millinewtons and take about 40 seconds to dock. A headline said space; the paper never does.

Godzilla Minus Zero made 910 million yen on its first day, a record for a live-action film in Japan. King Ghidorah is really in it, and the US gave it the franchise's first R rating as it opens in 3,250 theaters.

A Keio-led team in Japan told people with bipolar disorder apart from healthy volunteers by how they sounded, with an AUC of 0.916. It has not yet been compared with depression or validated externally.

Nintendo shipped 37% fewer Switch 2 units in April–September 2026, yet operating profit rose 49%. Strip out a $300 million tariff refund and growth is nearer 16%.

Akira Toriyama's home studio in Kiyosu is being torn down, and Japan is split over it. Tokiwa-so, razed in 1982 and rebuilt in 2020, and a Mafalda statue in Buenos Aires show other ways to remember a place.

Before it opened, Tsuyoshi Morioka put Junglia Okinawa's odds of success above 70%. Its operator has since lost 8.9 billion yen and leans on a state lender, and who answers for the shortfall is still undecided.

Half-fill a cylinder, lay it on its side and turn it slowly: swirls mix iPS cells without a blade. Osaka's 200 mL prototype reverses NASA's bubble-free bioreactor.

Japanese dogs carry 2 to 4 percent of their genome from the extinct Japanese wolf, and ancient breeds like the Shiba seek less attention. But no causal link is shown, and breed explains only about 9 percent of behavior.

Using magnetic vortices in a superconducting film, a Science Tokyo team separated two ways a flow gets stuck and found clogging behaves like a phase transition. Not every physicist agrees on that label.