Japan has a special talent for blending creativity with technology, and sometimes, that combo leads to inventions that are ...

Japan has launched a futuristic Human Washing Machine that cleans, dries and relaxes you in 15 minutes using microbubbles and ...

Japan is such an inventive country it boasts an entire art form devoted to useless inventions called chindogu. Beyond the purposely impractical and unmarketable creations constituting chindogu, ...

The weird and outright inappropriate inventions at Japan’s Digital Contents Expo include a fembot who doesn’t just visit the uncanny valley, she owns it. Plus a helmet that yanks on your ears to guide ...

Hello Kitty. Karaoke. Nintendo. The Walkman. Pikachu. All of these made-in-Japan inventions have had an inescapable impact on global pop culture. We’re all familiar with them, but it turns out that ...

The Japan Patent Office’s recent guidance on examination of artificial intelligence-related inventions could provide a useful framework for other patent offices struggling with how to treat new ...

Japanese inventions are used and loved around the world. Through interviews and reenactments, go behind the scenes and discover how Japanese craftsmanship brought these top inventions into being.

1. The first Japanese patent issued was for an anticorrosive paint; the next three were for tea processing machines. 2. Japanese inventors also patented the first selfie stick in the 1980s and the ...

Several amendments of the examination guidelines for medicinal inventions may be good news for pharmaceutical companies. You have full access to this article via your institution. As the difficulties ...

The patentability of methods for controlling the operation of medical devices has long been disputed in Japan. But, as Akihiko Okuno of Sonoda & Kobayashi in Tokyo explains, it is now possible to get ...

Masato Iida of Shiga International Patent Office explains how the inventive step obstacle can be cleared when preparing a patent application and presents several case studies based on combination ...