Here’s a neat/gross piece of trivia that should make waking up to a stiflingly hot forecast a little easier to deal with. In Japan, a website called Gokiten—aka Cockroach Weather—takes the current ...

A Japan-based research team led by Professor Hiroki Obata has been continuing the work of identifying cultivated plants and household pests from Japan’s Jomon period (16,500 – 2,800 years ago) using ...

SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) - If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg ...

Generally when people think about cockroaches they consider them pests or signs of uncleanliness and squalor. However now, thanks to some intrepid scientists in Japan, a cockroach just might be the ...

A Japanese zoo is trying to do the impossible -- improve the image of cockroaches, putting on an exhibition of one of the world's most hated insects. With a whopping -- and disgusting -- 4,000 species ...

TOKYO (AP) — A leading Japanese beef bowl chain said it is shutting down almost 2,000 outlets across the country from Monday after a rat and a bug were found in its food. Sukiya has apologized to its ...

A team of scientists in Japan are making progress on a creation they’re calling “Robobug” – a remote-controlled cockroach. While the idea of cyborg roaches may seem terrifying, researchers at Riken ...

Shares of Japanese packaged food producer Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings Co. dropped as much as 8.6% on Monday, the most in ten months, after apologizing over cockroach contamination in a rice-ball product ...

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This photo taken in Nagoya, Japan, June 2, 2022, shows one of the Sukiya franchise restaurants. (Masaki Inui/Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — A leading Japanese beef bowl chain said it is shutting down ...

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches. SAITAMA, Japan, Sept ...