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
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 large drone...
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,”...
by Charlie | Apr 4, 2017 | Business
