Back from ISS, Astronaut Koichi Wakata Wants to Return To Space After Returning From ISS
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Back from ISS, Astronaut Koichi Wakata Wants to Return To Space After Returning From ISS
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Quick Glance: Voyager 1: Successful Communication Restoration
- After months of nonsensical transmissions, Voyager 1 is finally communicating clearly with Earth.
- NASA has resolved issues with the probe and obtained clear information on its health.
- Voyager 1 has made significant scientific discoveries but is significantly affected by the harsh space environment.
- Despite the temporary repair of communication issues, NASA scientists are aware that the spacecraft won't last indefinitely.
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Voyager 1 space probe sends usable data back to Earth: The 46-year-old research instrument only produced unreadable data garbage for months ...
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Quick Glance: Voyager 1 Sends Usable Data to Earth Again
- Launched in 1977, Voyager 1's mission is to explore interstellar space.
- After sending unreadable data for months, a fix was found for the issue.
- Experts repaired a faulty chip in the Flight Data Subsystem to resume sending readable data.
- The mission remains iconic, but the battery's longevity is uncertain as the probe continues its journey through the Milky Way.
NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, arrive in Florida for Boeing's first human spaceflight
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Japan's lunar lander SLIM surprisingly returns after the third night: Japan's lunar lander exceeded all expectations: Although it was not designed for the ...
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Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture: On a recent Saturday, some 100 volunteers gathered on a popular beach in the Japanese port ...
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Japanese Astronaut Furukawa Wishes to ‘Pass the Baton’; Furukawa Also Expressed Desire to Help Other Japanese Astronauts Still on ISS
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Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night: What do we say to the God of Death? Not today
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He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he's going into space
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A NASA Mars rover is in a great place to search for signs of life: While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is ...
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If Starship is real, we’re going to need big cargo movers on the Moon and Mars: "I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door."
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NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan: Dragonfly will push the boundaries of engineering and science as it explores Titan.
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NASA chief asks nations to work together on climate change: NASA is hoping that nations will work together more closely in the future on topics such as climate ...
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Japan's moon lander wasn't built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It's still going after 3 - The Mainichi
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Easy Japanese news in translation: 15,000 people take part in Tokyo Rainbow Pride event - The Mainichi
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How to see Lyrid meteor shower during the pink supermoon: The Lyrid meteor shower will align with the "pink moon" this week. But this bright supermoon could make ...
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Shogun: A guide to the hit Japanese samurai epic as its finale cuts deep: A quick guide as the razor-sharp, critically-acclaimed samurai epic reaches its finale.
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How Shogun became an unlikely streaming success: Subtitled fare is mainstream these days and audiences are flocking to foreign-language shows ...
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Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first: ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle ...
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Japan is poised to fill an EV gap left by China: A new Honda facility in Canada shows that Asia’s auto industry is ready to meet North American needs.
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Nidec faces market pressure as founder rips 'unfair' China EV war: TOKYO -- Cutthroat competition in China's electric vehicle sector has cast a shadow over ...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Ups the Mania In Teaser for Cloud: What a pleasure it is to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa in his Hong Sangsoo period. The typically prolific filmmaker is ...
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Old Japanese train cars get new life in Cambodia: Japanese rail diesel cars taken out of service will get a second life in Cambodia.
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Easy Japanese news in translation: Nemophila flowers blend in with Ibaraki Pref.'s blue sky - The Mainichi
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Voyager1: Radio contact with the probe has been restored: After five months of radio silence, NASA has re-established radio contact with the Voyager1 space probe ...
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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani Passes Hideki Matsui for Most MLB Homers by a Japanese-born Player
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Quick Glance: Shohei Ohtani Sets New Record for Most MLB Homers
- Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani has broken the record for the most homers hit by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball.
- During a game at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani hit an impressive homer that flew into the right field bleachers off pitcher Adrian Houser of the New York Mets.
- With this homer, which was Ohtani's 176th in his six years in the MLB, he surpassed Matsui, who played the final 10 years of his 20-year pro career in North America.
- Ohtani's record-breaking blast traveled 423 feet and put the Dodgers ahead 2-0. Prior to this, Ohtani had not hit a homer in seven consecutive games.
Japanese companies navigate workplace revolution as job hunters get choosier: TOKYO -- For decades, Japanese manufacturer MinebeaMitsumi has worked in obscurity ...
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Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo: Hubble continues to deliver the goods.
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‘We want to enjoy now’: Young Japanese choose work-life balance over notoriously long office hours
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Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids: With minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based ...
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Japan’s Former Premier Aso to Meet Trump as US Election Looms: Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is set to meet former President Donald Trump on Tuesday ...
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- Ahead of the November elections, former Prime Minister Taro Aso met with Donald Trump in New York as some countries were establishing connections with the ex-US president.
- Serving as the Vice President of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, Aso had a strong alliance with the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who shared a close bond with Trump.
- During the meeting, Trump also commended Japan's increased defense expenditures.
- The meeting on Tuesday occurred following Trump's involvement in a hearing related to alleged hush money payments to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election.
SoftBank to spend $960m to boost computing power for generative AI: TOKYO -- Japanese telecom company SoftBank is investing 150 billion yen ($960 million) by ...
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Retired NASA astronaut visits Orange, recounts his journey from farm fields to outer space
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Satellite photos: This year’s ‘average’ Sierra snowpack compared to previous years
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Hello Kitty turns 50. What will the next cat's meow be?: The global rise of Hello Kitty, who turns 50 this year, tracks that of Japanese culture. What, then ...
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Toyota partners with Tencent to appeal to young Chinese drivers: Toyota Motor on Thursday said it will partner Chinese gaming and social media leader Tencent in ...
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Japanese Conductor Kazuki Yamada to Debut at Berlin Philharmonic
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Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings said on Tuesday it wanted to see huge growth for its 7-Eleven convenience store chain globally ... Show more
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A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?
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Japanese Go League for Female Players to Debut in July
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Hotels are new darling of foreign investors in Japanese property: TOKYO -- Investors remain bullish about Japan's property market this year ...
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World's 1st recycled diapers go on sale at stores in southwest Japan - The Mainichi
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Former Japan PM Aso heads to New York in bid to meet Trump: TOKYO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso begins a visit to New York on Monday during which he ...
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NASA releases satellite photos of Dubai and Abu Dhabi before and after record flooding
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Japanese dancer Yuna Yamada wins first place in U.S. ballet contest: 'I want to be a dancer influential enough to make the audience smile,' said Yamada, 12 ...
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Dollar at 34-yr. highs in upper 155 yen as intervention line tested - The Mainichi
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Quick Glance: Market Volatility in Asia: Impact of Meta's Losses
- The depreciation of Asian currencies against the U.S. dollar and potential actions by monetary authorities are at the forefront of Asian markets.
- Post-market gains from U.S. tech giant Meta could impact Asian markets as shares dropped by 10% after trading hours.
- Concerns surrounding currencies are escalating as the dollar breached 155.00 yen on Wednesday without any indication of intervention from Japanese authorities. Will Tokyo take action?
- Given the current environment that led to a rare joint statement on exchange rates from the United States, Japan, and South Korea this month, no possibilities can be ruled out.
South Korea protests Japanese leaders' offerings to Yasukuni shrine: South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's ...
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Quick Glance: South Korea Objects to Japanese Leaders' Yasukuni Shrine Offerings
- South Korea expressed deep disappointment on Sunday over Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offerings at the Yasukuni Shrine and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the country's wartime past.
- The shrine is viewed by Beijing and Seoul as a representation of Japan's historical military aggression due to its inclusion of 14 Japanese wartime leaders among the 2.5 million war dead honored there.
- The South Korean government calls on Japanese leaders to confront history and demonstrate sincere repentance, which would be a crucial step towards enhancing relations between the two countries.
- Despite progress in the South Korea-Japan relationship, particularly in security cooperation, the offerings made by Kishida and some cabinet members at the Yasukuni Shrine have sparked protests from South Korea.
Astronauts arrive to KSC as 1st crew for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft: Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived to Kennedy Space Center ...
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Two Japan SDF helicopters crash, one body found, 7 missing -media: Two Japanese maritime self-defence forces helicopters crashed into the sea during a training ...
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NASA Reveals What the Strange Object Was that Fell From the Sky and Tore Through a Florida Home's Roof
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Quick Glance: Fragment of ISS Battery Hits Florida Residence
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- The fragment that entered the house of Alejandro Otero in Naples, Florida, pierced through the roof and crossed 2 floors.
- Following thorough examination, the US space agency confirmed that the fragment was indeed part of the cargo pallet used to secure the batteries.
- NASA intends to update its predictive models for object decay during re-entry and the ISS team will investigate the disposal of the cargo pallet to enhance understanding of the debris's survival.
Support for Japan PM Kishida's Cabinet tops 20% for 1st time in 3 months: Mainichi poll - The Mainichi
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ISS: Resistant bacterium mutated in space: Amazing discovery in space: According to a study, a dangerous bacterium has mutated on the ISS ...
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Taiwanese students experience Japanese culture on visit to Kyoto Pref. high school - The Mainichi
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Mushrooms glow in forest on Amami Oshima Island: Forest fungi on the southwestern Japanese island of Amami Oshima, transform after sunset to create a magical ...
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Japan PM to unveil measures to protect Amazon rainforest in Brazil - The Mainichi
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North Korea fires unidentified missile into sea in latest weapons launch, South Korea says
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NASA images show how big Death Valley’s ‘rare’ lake got this winter: The driest place in North America had a lake big enough you could kayak in this past winter.
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Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit: The tool crunches data on employees at a company, from their attendance record to personal information such as ...
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NASA needs help retrieving Mars samples that may reveal past alien life: NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ...
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In Photos: Blooming wisteria flowers create curtains of purple in central Japan - The Mainichi
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Japanese trading firms look abroad to diversify lithium supply: The resource-limited country is aiming to create a stable supply of the mineral ...
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Why Detroit’s Black Tech Saturday Matters: Hey, it’s Jeff Green, stopping by for a visit from my beat on the Equality team. This week I want to talk about ...
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Japan’s Nikkei Closes above 38,000 Points as Tech Shares Soar (Update 1)
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Number of young women to halve in 40% of Japan localities by 2050: More than 40 percent of Japanese municipalities are likely to see the number of their young ...
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You will soon have a chance to see an exploding star: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime thing,’ NASA says
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Japan companies raise 30% more capital from overseas stock offerings: TOKYO -- The amount of capital raised by Japanese companies via foreign equity ...
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Yen hits 34-year low against dollar ahead of BOJ meeting: The yen hit a fresh 34-year low versus the dollar and a 16-year low against the euro on Thursday (Apr ...
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