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[VIDEO] Interview with Noriko Arai, Todai Robot Project Director

Artificial intelligence researcher Noriko Arai explains why her group’s robot couldn’t pass the entrance exam at University of Tokyo, how the group’s mission is changing, and how humans can learn to live alongside advanced AI.

Dec 8, 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 eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect 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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