Japan is having its own #MeToo moment
The #MeToo movement captured the nation’s attention after a top-ranking Finance Ministry official was accused by a female reporter of repeated sexual harassment.
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Tokyo announces plan to install solar roads in time for 2020 Olympics
Japan has decided to continue the introduction of solar roads on government owned property, and will more likely focus on parking lots.
Renault-Nissan aims for next generation battery car in 2025
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is working to produce an electric car that uses solid-state batteries as early as 2025, in a move that puts it amid the frontrunners in the global race to launch the next generation of electric vehicles.
Australia, France, Japan, Jamaica, the Philippines, Sweden, U.K., and U.S. found the International Coral Reef Initiative
The ICRI is an informal partnership among nations, international organizations and non-government organizations to help protect coral reefs globally. It is now the world’s largest body dedicated to coral conservation.
The pocket calculator is invented in Japan
The first portable calculators appeared in Japan in 1970, and were soon marketed around the world. These included the Sanyo ICC-0081 “Mini Calculator”, the Canon Pocketronic, and the Sharp QT-8B “micro Compet”.
The Constitution of Japan officially goes into effect
The constitution stripped the Emperor of all but symbolic power, provides for a parliamentary system of government, and guarantees universal suffrage and other fundamental rights.
Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague
He traveled to Hong Kong in 1894 at the request of the Japanese government during an outbreak of the bubonic plague, and identified a bacterium that he concluded was causing the disease.
The Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū is the first to use general anaesthesia
Hanaoka Seishū was a Japanese of the Edo period with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku.
Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
The Dai Gohonzon is a venerated Mandala image inscribed with both Sanskrit and Chinese logographs on a median log trunk of Japanese camphorwood. It is worshipped in Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism.
Samurai warriors rise to power in Japan
The samurai (also bushi) were a class of warriors which arose in the 10th century CE in medieval Japan and which lasted until the 17th century CE. The type has been romanticised since the 18th century CE as the epitome of chivalry and honor.