National Sep 22, 2020
Japanese firm launches world's first UV lamp that safely kills coronavirus
Ushio is only accepting orders from medical institutions for the moment but will serve other customers once production catches up with demand.
Business / Corporate Sep 5, 2019
Elite Ushio lights the way to next-gen computer chips in Japan
by Yuki Furukawa
Chipmakers have spent two decades pouring investment into a revolutionary new technique to push the limits of physics and cram more transistors onto slices of silicon. Now that technology is on the cusp of going mainstream, thanks to a secretive Japanese company that's mastered ...
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Jun 3, 2017
Is Japan slipping into prewar politics?
by Michael Hoffman
"The recent flurry of legislation, including a proposed anti-conspiracy amendment to the organized crime law, recalls prewar Japan," Kobe University criminal law scholar Hirofumi Uchida told the Asahi Shimbun in an interview in March. "Prewar Japan" is a pregnant phrase. It suggests militarist fascism. The ...