Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car(nippon.com)

197 points by gascoigne 2 years ago | 258 comments

Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years (2010)(bbc.com)

13 points by redbell 2 years ago | 4 comments

XPAK 400(kustomrama.com)

41 points by andreygrehov 2 years ago | 5 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)(all-things-andy-gavin.com)

29 points by alexpls 3 months ago | 2 comments

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English(thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)

89 points by nanna 7 months ago | 32 comments

Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin(dannydutch.com)

74 points by danielmorozoff 2 years ago | 21 comments

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

End of Japanese community(support.mozilla.org)

876 points by phantomathkg 11 months ago | 688 comments

Mozilla Support contributor forum thread in which the longtime locale leader of the SUMO Japanese community announces its end.

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries(tech.supercarblondie.com)

663 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 175 comments

Tech news article about a Japanese method that recovers up to 90% of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries.

Why Japanese companies do so many different things(davidoks.blog)

828 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 386 comments

A Substack essay by David Oks explaining the internal logic behind why Japanese corporations diversify into so many unrelated businesses.

Why Japan has such good railways(worksinprogress.co)

537 points by RickJWagner 6 months ago | 507 comments

A Works in Progress magazine essay explaining why Japan's railway system is so effective.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.