Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth(soranews24.com)

115 points by zdw 8 months ago | 35 comments

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made(soranews24.com)

151 points by zdw 3 months ago | 39 comments

Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop(soranews24.com)

73 points by techdar42 1 year ago | 51 comments

Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s(soranews24.com)

239 points by nanna 2 years ago | 165 comments

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line(soranews24.com)

487 points by edward 1 year ago | 303 comments

SoraNews24 article about what to do when stranded at the last station of Tokyo's Chuo Rapid Line after falling asleep or missing the last train.

Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog, has died(the-sun.com)

192 points by jiwidi 3 years ago | 25 comments

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

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.

Working from home is powering productivity(imf.org)

513 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 366 comments

IMF Finance & Development magazine article by Nicholas Bloom (September 2024) arguing that working from home is boosting productivity.

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 bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again(finance.yahoo.com)

401 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 211 comments

Bloomberg article syndicated on Yahoo Finance about Japan spending $67 billion in subsidies to rebuild its semiconductor industry.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners(aljazeera.com)

120 points by mikhael 29 days ago | 323 comments

Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.