Hydrogen Town : Olympic Town in Harumi to be powered by Hydrogen!!!
Auto majors like Toyota announced the Mirai, hydrogen powered car which we covered a few weeks back. Hydrogen Powered Mirai. Yomiuri Shimbun is following up with a news that...
HOW TO : Connect to free WiFi on the Tokyo Toei Bus service
A few days earlier we covered the free WiFi connectivity on 143 stations of the Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines of the city. Reference URL :HOW TO : Connect...
Tokyo 2020 : Machine translation software development gaining pace
Ask the bilingual community (Japanese and any other language) about their views on machine translation and most of the times you will get “It does not work”, “Human expression...
5G : Docomo’s vision for Olympics 2020
The national broadcaster NHK announced high quality 8K digital delivery under works for the Olympics 2020. NTT Docomo, the major network carrier has plans of its own to also upgrade the...
Lighting the Olympic flame, Back to the Future II style!?!?
The flame at the 1964 Tokyo Games was lit by Yoshinori Sakai a very symbolic selection of a person who was born the day of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima on...
1964 Olympics = Bullet Trains, 2020 Olympics = ??
Japan as is popularly known made a phenomenal recovery in the post war period and by 1964 was holding events like the 1964 Olympics in a modern city of that...
8K TV’s for the 2020 Olympics?
CEATEC JAPAN 2014 has some interesting news from NHK and Sharp. NHK is planning to start with 8K broadcasts to coincide with the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020! At 7,680 pixels...