JAXA has reported that they have found a cave on the moon! The discovery is exciting because it could lead to the eventual establishing of a moon base there.

There are some facts and occurrences in the periphery of our daily lives that we just seem to take for granted, and only when we know they are gone do we realize how special they are. I am finding this to be true of the hovercraft that brings passengers to and from Oita Airport from Oita City, which will be terminating service at the end of next week. On October 31 the only Hovercraft in Japan will take it’s last scheduled ride.

Loaded with Yamaha’s Vocaloid singing voice synthesizer software, the HRP-4C female fashion model/humanoid robot can now give her animated counterparts a go for their money.

The HRP-4C robot was developed by AIST. The anime-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and shoulder length hair boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.

SONY announced that they developed a Wireless Power Feeding System on October 2nd. It can supply 60W of electricity to devices that are at maximum 50cm, or a little over a foot and half away, without cords.

The Wireless Power Feeding System provides energy through space from its transmission device to only the receiving device, which is on the same frequency. The transmission device remains highly effective at feeding power even if the position between devices shifts. Cool? You bet!

According to a new press release from Haryama this suit is no ordinary suit. It’s coated with titanium dioxide–a chemical commonly used in toothpaste– see the back for ingredients–that breaks down when reacting with light and supposedly kills the H1N1 virus upon contact. So how long does this suit last before it’s out of gas? Well..The company says the suit will retain its protective capability even after being washed multiple times. But, who’s going to dry clean a protective suit when you know what it’s covered in?

According to CyberMedia in Japan, Internet.com and goo research just published results from their latest studies about ‘PC internet usage at home’. The results are not too surprising to me, but boy are the numbers staggering!

98.3% of Japanese have a fixed internet connection at home and over 70% use internet at home more than 1h every day.

JapanFest 2009 in Atlanta, featured some of the latest in Japanese technology! Well, it was a therapeutic robot baby seal named “Paro”, but don’t let your love of cute blind you to this high-tech cuddly beast!

Paro was developed in order to interact with human beings and to make them feel emotional attachment to it. Hence it super-cute and wants to take over the world! It has a diurnal rhythm of morning, daytime, and night, which means it is active during the daytime, but gets sleepy at night. Whew..so it has one weakness.

Tokyo Tower…Ever wonder what all the lights mean? Well here’s you chance to find out…well maybe it’s in Japanese…but I’ll give you a few hints as to what’s happening this month…

Just past is pink on the 1st and it was for….breast cancer’s “Pink Ribbon Day.”

And today, Friday the 2nd, is for the 2016 Olympics and Paralymics, and on the 11th and 12th is…

Japanese FI Grand Prix Race on October 4th, 2009, Suzuka City, Japan.

Designed as a Honda test track in 1962 by John Hugenholtz, the Zandvoort owner, Suzuka is one of few circuits in the world to have a figure 8 layout. Obviously, due to the danger of an intersecting track, the track doesn’t actually intersect with itself; instead, the back straight passes over the front section by means of an overpass.

If you haven’t heard already, Japan is seriously planning to build a Space Elevator, e.g. an elevator that goes from Earth to space. The idea, first envisioned by the master of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, in his 1979 work The Fountains of Paradise, has in the last few years grown from science fiction to a genuinely achievable prospect.

In 2008 the book “Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator”, by Dr. Brad Edwards and Philip Ragan, was published in Japanese and entered the Japanese best seller list. This led to a …