Google has just announced a small but significant update to its maps. Exactly one year after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, satellite images on Google Maps of the country have now ...

In a computer screen image taken from the Google Earth software, a feudal map of a village in central Japan from hundreds of years ago is superimposed on a modern street map. The village is labeled ...

LEGO celebrates 50 years in Japan with a bang. Going big, the Danish firm has constructed a complete map of the country from 1.8 million of their famous blocks. Over 5,000 people chipped in to make ...

A research team at Sophia University in Tokyo has released an online "Bear Encounter AI Prediction Map" that estimates the likelihood of human-bear contact in 19 regions, aiming to reduce the ...

Nick Kapur is back with a new series of “stereotype maps” based on search engine autocomplete results. Notably, he has created a map showing “European stereotypes of Japan and the Japanese, based on ...