Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York ...

Japan is releasing rice from its national emergency stockpile for the first time to combat shortages. High temperatures reducing rice production and stockpiling are thought to be behind the problem.

Japan's population is rapidly aging due to a low birth rate and changing lifestyles, with the country's population anticipated to fall to 63 million by 2100. In response to this issue, the Japanese ...

Preferred Networks is a little-known name outside of Japan, but the Toyota-backed artificial intelligence unicorn has big plans to use deep learning to fix "real-world" issues — with the end goal of ...

In response to soaring supermarket rice prices, the Japanese government released 210,000 tonnes of rice from its emergency reserves in February 2025, despite an abundance of rice production in the ...

(CNN) — The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ...

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