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Vita game 'Gravity Rush' wins Japanese Excellence Award
AFP Relax News, Published on 14/12/2012
» The PlayStation Vita launch title Gravity Rush has been recognized with a Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, part of an annual event organized by the country's governmental Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Japan researchers invent solar-cell fabric
AFP Relax News, Published on 12/12/2012
» Clothes that could literally light up your life were unveiled Tuesday by Japanese researchers who said their solar-cell fabric would eventually let wearers harvest energy on the go.
Japan pedal power aims for human flight record
AFP Relax News, Published on 11/12/2012
» A team in Japan are hoping pedal-power will beat the world record for a human-propelled plane -- in a flying machine made from polystyrene, they said Monday.
Hydrogen-powered cars could be mainstream by 2015
AFP Relax News, Published on 07/12/2012
» Asia-Pacific carmakers are set to commercialize fuel-cell technology within the next three years, with manufacturers like Honda, Toyota and Hyundai making advances on their FCEV (fuel cell electric vehicle) designs.
China island row takes bite out of Japan tourism
AFP Relax News, Published on 06/12/2012
» The sound of Mandarin-speaking tourists and the cash tills they set ringing have become rare in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza district, retailers say, since a flare-up in an island row between China and Japan.
Health and fitness agenda: CES
AFP Relax News, Published on 03/12/2012
» Health and fitness events ramp up in January, kicking off with the International Consumer Electronics Show, which will showcase a bevvy of cool new health and fitness gadgets.
Next stop for Jamie Oliver? Russia
AFP Relax News, Published on 28/11/2012
» Jamie Oliver’s Operation Russia is nearing completion, with plans firmly in place to open his first Jamie’s Italian outposts in Moscow and St. Petersburg next year.
Japanese firm develops health monitor for dogs
AFP Relax News, Published on 28/11/2012
» Worried the family dog is too chubby?
K-pop acts dropped from Japan year-end music show
AFP Relax News, Published on 28/11/2012
» Japan's widely-watched year-end TV show will feature only Japanese acts this year, with popular South Korean performers left out of the line-up amid territorial frictions with Seoul.
L'Oréal-funded survey looks at link between quality of life and cosmetics
AFP Relax News, Published on 21/11/2012
» L'Oréal has funded the global 'BeautyQoL' test, carried out by independent research agency Data Mining International to test the link between 'quality of life' and cosmetics use.