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Japan: Untold Stories

Fukuoka is being marketed as Japan's answer to Silicon Valley (Credit: Alamy)
Japan: Untold Stories

Inside Japan’s most innovative city

By Edd Gent

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Japan: Untold Stories

The ancient trees that tell the future

By Rachel Nuwer, in Kyoto, Japan
(Credit: Terushi Sho)
Japan: Untold Stories

Japan’s eerily hyper-realistic masks

(Credit: Maika Elan)
Japan: Untold Stories

The plight of Japan’s modern hermits

By Edd Gent
Ken-Ichiro Kamei holding one of his "bodies on a chip" (Credit: Rachel Nuwer)
Japan: Untold Stories

The man building ‘animals on a chip’

By Rachel Nuwer
Since Japan first introduced the scheme, many countries across the world have started to install blue lights on station platforms (Credit: Getty Images)
Japan: Untold Stories

Why Japan's stations are bathed in blue

By Chris Baraniuk
Tokyo's skyline (Getty Images)
Japan: Untold Stories

The secrets of Japan's dancing towers

By Martha Henriques
A Japanese company plans to create artificial meteor showers as the ultimate firework display - but are its plans feasible? (Credit: Astro Live Experiences)
Japan: Untold Stories

The world’s most ambitious fireworks?

By Chris Baraniuk
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Japan: Untold Stories

Japan’s grand plans to mine ocean vents

By Martha Henriques
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Japan: Untold Stories

Watch a paralysed woman walk again

The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge and its floodwater cathedral cost $2 billion to build (Credit: Getty Images)
Japan: Untold Stories

Video: Tokyo's 'floodwater cathedral'

By Terushi Sho
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Japan: Untold Stories

The ‘cathedral’ that keeps Tokyo dry

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
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Japan: Untold Stories

Ikumen: the rise of Japan’s ‘hot dads’

By David Robson
A large scale replica of the Olympic Gold medal (Credit: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images)
Japan: Untold Stories

The gold mine hidden in your pocket

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Japan has been researching the potential of flammable ice for decades, but it is only within the last few years that extraction has come within reach (Credit: Getty Images)
Science & Environment

Why Japan wants to start ‘burning ice’

By Martha Henriques
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In Depth

The ingenious ‘samurai space sword’

By Chris Baraniuk