A Shizuoka lab has closed the breeding loop on the douman crab. Individual boxes are standard practice in Southeast Asia; what took eight years was larval die-offs and timing the female's molt.

Kyoto University's deep foam photolithography makes white out of air instead of titanium dioxide, prints it at about 20,000 dpi and repels water without PFAS. Why the timing is European, and what Japan tried before.

A Hokkaido University-led study says rough terrain hides Mercury's own tectonic wrinkles, and that past estimates missed up to 30 percent of the contraction. BepiColombo arrives to test it on November 21.

A 200,000-yen temple room and a 100-million-yen tax finding surfaced at Koyasan in the same week. Where that price actually sits, why Japanese law taxes the bed but not the offering, and how to book a night.

The 2026 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to Masashi Yanagisawa and Emmanuel Mignot for orexin. It explained narcolepsy, but the industry built sleeping pills first. The narcolepsy drug arrived 28 years later.

An experiment at Japan's SPring-8 finds davemaoite holds 0.08 wt% water at most, a tenth of past estimates, and points Earth's deep water to subducted crust instead.

Sony cancelled Physint in June and Xbox picked it up in September. English-language forums blamed Sony. Japanese forums argued about deadlines, budgets, and where they would even be able to play it.

JR East opened public voting on three successors to the Suica penguin, and about 58% of Japanese posts turned negative. What they object to, why the 2018 Takanawa Gateway vote poisoned the well, and why it may not last.

Japan lost about 1.9 million dogs in twelve years, yet its pet market grew to 12.7 billion dollars in fiscal 2025. Shipment tables show dog food going from 397 to 811 yen per kilogram.