Convenience store giant Lawson will open a store this month with no cash registers, and plans to more in the Tokyo area by summer 2020.

A biennial event essential to Japan's automotive industry, the Tokyo Motor Show typically showcases the future of vehicles.

This mobility-experience theme park spread across three facilities encourages visitors to "look, ride and feel" as they learn about (and climb into) the cars of the past and the transportation of the future.

A couple in Osaka is making custom-built wheelchairs for handicapped dogs.

Fanbrella, a parasol equipped with a fan and a mist emitter, is arguably the coolest way to beat the heat

NTT Data Corporation has a new automatic checkout system that enables shoppers to simply choose their products and walk out of a store, paying automatically by mobile.

While summers in Japan can be miserably hot, Sony has a new solution to handle the heat.

In an effort to curb the increasing number of traffic accidents involving senior drivers in Japan, new types of electric vehicles are being developed with the aging population in mind.