This Is On Me

THE Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vortex of trash created from an ocean gyre in the central North Pacific.

IREZUMI, literally means “insert­ing ink” in Japanese, is traditional Japanese tattoos.

A CONFERENCE held recently on ‘news reporting through the Internet’ discussed the ways to deal with manipulation of informa­tion using...

SINCE the 1990s, scientists have predicted based on cli­mate models that the intensity of extreme rain events around the world...

BENTO is a part of Japanese culture and is gaining popu­larity all over the world.

eSPORTS were featured at the 2018 Asian Games as a demonstration sport, meaning medals won in this sport will not...

  By FLORO MERCENE   IT is not just global air tempera­tures that are heating up. Heat waves over the...

HYPERLOOP is a new form of ground transport currently in development by a number of companies, which could see pas­sengers...

ACCORDING to recent data, almost every Japanese house­hold has a washing machine, so why is the usage of coin laundry...

PARASITOIDS are insects that lay their eggs in the bodies of other invertebrates, referred to as hosts.

NEW experiments show that bot­tlenose dolphins can remember whistles of other dolphins they’d lived with even after 20 years of...

By Floro Mercene A GROUP of 600 or more species of plants has cleverly adapted to live in nutrient-poor soil...

TYPHOONS are a part of life in Japan, with several storms lashing the archi­pelago every year. The Tokyo Metropoli­tan Government...

By Floro Mercene JAPAN’S record rainfall last month unleashed floods and set off deadly landsides in Western Japan, killing more...

By Floro Mercene While capsule toys originated overseas, gachapon or gashapon are uniquely Japanese. The terms gachapon or gashapon refer...

Its long spring season and cool nights make Holland the perfect country for tulip growing. Tulips signal the arrival of...