While the forecast for a resurgence in Japan technology innovation appears in doubt, the prediction for Japan's automobile exports seems more enthusiastic as the yen has weakened.
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"Japan offers good technology and can learn from the U.S., " he says of his role.
"Japan offers good technology and can learn from the U.S., " he says.
When the world thinks about environmental technology, Japan wants one word to come to mind: mottainai.
Coming late to memory-chip fabrication, they had more recent technology than Japan and South Korea.
"Japan's military technology is like Japanese culture, " Kim says.
UNESCO, as lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, organized the event together with the Government of Sweden and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
Automobile traffic crawled on smaller, two-lane roads as power outages left the sleek, electric-powered "bullet trains" -- shining examples of Japan's advanced technology, normally capable of speeds nearing 200 mph -- sitting motionless on their tracks.
Although the consortium includes Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Toshiba of Japan, most of the technology is Korean.
Unlike so many of America's small-cap stocks, few of Japan's are sexy technology companies with strong growth potential.
Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project.
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The recommendation was made in a report drawn up for the National Police Agency (NPA) in Japan by a panel of technology experts.
In Japan, machines using this technology have had three times the amount of sales than the non-interactive style.
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The Daily Yomiuri continued to follow the government's moves to investigate the accident with a story about how Japan's Science and Technology Agency plans to exactly re-create the nuclear fission chain reactions that occurred at the plant--presumably under safer conditions.
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Since 1990, cards to enter Singapore Polytechnic's Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology double as time cards, recording how long users have been on the premises.
Corporate Japan is buying exposure to foreign technology and management techniques in the hope that these will help change its own to international best practice.
The first of those took place last July, when Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the CNRS-AIST joint robotics laboratory at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, and his team used FMRI to allow someone to control a robot located thousands of miles away using only their thoughts.
Japan has been developing fast-breeder technology for decades in the hopes of making itself energy independent.
Most fear that without cheaper and faster telecoms, there is little chance that information technology will help to revitalise Japan's geriatric economy.
Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.
Last but not least, Japan is also aggressively seeking to acquire this technology.
Big cellular carriers such as Vodafone, SingTel, Australia's Telstra and several companies in Japan already embed FAST's contextual search technology in their networks.
It means "don't waste, " and it's the concept behind the country's push not only to make Japan green, but also to sell the technology it's developed around the world.
Europe's 3G is based on one broadband technology, WCDMA. A rival technology is CDMA. Experience in Japan, the first country where 3G has been launched, suggests that CDMA may have the edge.
In fact, all of Japan's banks have been underinvesting in technology for several years, and are likely to continue to do so for several more, as they write down their remaining bad debts.
Japan has numerous large and well-diversified technology companies.
Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.
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Today, hundreds of floats deployed under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), coordinated by UNESCO and largely supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), are used to measure ocean temperature, salinity and tsunami risk.
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