Mizuno's Hyperwarp 96 weighs about 96 grams (size 27.0 cm) despite a thick sole and carbon plate. We compare it with Adidas's 97-gram Evo 3 and ask what one gram, and a 100 km lifespan, really mean.

Minoru Kiuchi, Japan's economy minister and long seen as a reflationist, says Abenomics-style reflation is over. The BOJ was already at 1.25%. Yet Japan still hasn't declared deflation over.

Japan's gene-edited GABA tomato opened its field. It wasn't the first gene-edited food sold (US soybean oil, 2019), but the first CRISPR food shoppers could buy. How Japan's rules compare with the EU's.

Japan bars under-18s from campaigning, even by sharing a candidate's post. On September 25, 2026, a Tokyo court called that ban unconstitutional, yet the four plaintiffs still lost.

Masahiko Inami read Ghost in the Shell as lab homework and helped build optical camouflage from reflectors and a projector. The world called it an invisibility cloak. He says that name would never have sparked the idea.

Meta's 7,000 km US-France cable Petal targets 1 petabit per second in 2029, built by NEC and Sumitomo. Labs reach 19 cores, so why two? Repeater power.

Chihaya Adachi, a 2026 Citation Laureate, was first author of a 2001 paper on iridium-based OLEDs, then created TADF, which needs no rare metal. Yet iridium, mined at about 7 tonnes a year, is still in OLED screens.

Japan says ¥8.2 trillion in self-driving investment will yield ¥187.3 trillion in economic effects, about 23 to 1. The government's own footnotes show what that number measures and which assumption drives it.

A wild fox dropped a mole at a home in Yonago, Japan, and walked away. It has visited about seven times. Japan's internet thought of a school folktale; a mole researcher has a more practical theory.