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[VIDEO] Cogy: a wheelchair that helps users stand up again

TESS Co.’s Cogy wheelchair, designed for people who have trouble walking but can still move their legs, is pedal-powered. It features two pedals for moving forward and a hand-operated control to change directions or to stop.

Aug 20, 2016

Tugboats assist a liquified natural gas tanker as it docks at a port in Yantai, China, in February. In 2021, China became the largest importer of LNG, and as of this year, China now has the most long-term LNG contracts.

China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?

By Nithin Coca

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.

How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic

By Alex K.T. Martin

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