Yamanashi wants to charge for off-season helicopter rescues on Mount Fuji, 8,000 yen per five minutes. Its own document calls it a package against reckless climbing. Is free rescue too cheap, or does a meter delay calls?

Netflix and SEGA are adapting three SEGA games: a live-action Crazy Taxi comedy, a Sonic cartoon for preschoolers, and a crime film from a game that has not shipped. Announced September 15, 2026.

A decryption tool built by Japan's police has restored about 20 million files for 41 companies since February 2024. It is free and used in more than 100 countries, and it still reaches only a fraction of victims.

A 1977 paper by two Japanese ENT doctors, from airflow readings on 15 men, said to blow one nostril at a time. It won the 2026 Ig Nobel medicine prize 49 years later, at a ceremony that had left the US for Zurich.

Thirty players throwing together need about 64,201 rounds to leave one winner. The widely quoted 63,917 counts only the wait until the first non-tie, and just 4.61 throws settle anything.

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.