by Brad Frischkorn | Jul 10, 2017 | Business, Economy, Employment, Technology, Travel
TOKYO – LED lighting is fast becoming more than just the wave of the future; it is also helping to revive the past. Marketers at lighting retailer ReUdo hope that Japan’s stubborn love for its ancient traditions will help to spark sales of its decorative low-power...
by Brad Frischkorn | Jul 10, 2017 | Business, Economy, Finance, Technology
TOKYO – Leave it to your big brother to bring home the coolest thing on the block. Brother Industries’ new mobile printers literally put the power of a print shop in one’s pocket. The company’s PocketJet series of machines, set to hit the retail market after April,...
by Brad Frischkorn | Jun 25, 2017 | Technology, Travel
TOKYO – Wearable robots could finally be migrating from the movie screen to the workplace floor. If so, the task of lifting heavy objects may at last cease to pose a worry. Nara-based ActiveLink Co., Ltd. is one company actively behind the effort to commercialize...
by Brad Frischkorn | Jun 23, 2017 | Business, Technology
TOKYO (JPN) – Online and newspaper “Help Wanted” ads are likely to include a new kind of job listing in the near future: skilled drone pilots ready for immediate work on solar panel farms, fire stations, and even at old folks homes. Japan’s rapid solar panel buildout,...
by Brad Frischkorn | Jun 23, 2017 | Business, Technology
TOKYO — The next buzz among Tokyoites may not be the latest cell phone app or chic fashion trend, but the sound of an overhead drone on the prowl. Considering Japan’s geography, demography, and fiscal debt, executives at General Atomics, the world’s dominant...
by Brad Frischkorn | Jun 23, 2017 | Business, Technology
Is Japan on the road to becoming a hydrogen-producing superpower? Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is betting that it will. Japan’s energy industry remains abuzz following the government’s June 2014 announcement of its “Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells,”...
