The Nakagin Capsule Tower A606 Project is named after the pod that another ex-resident helped restore several years before the building came down. This group, which owns seven units, has even more ...

As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer?

Accor has revealed it will open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the iconic Japanese ... a capsule" In response to the news, a spokesperson for the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building ...

While ministry officials said the total number of reactors in Japan would not increase ... some nuclear plants lack space for building additional reactors because decommissioning requires many ...

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks ... operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, released from above Australia a capsule containing roughly ...

A special ventilation system keeps the pod cool. Capsule hotels started in Japan in 1979 but are now popular across the world. Produced by Charlie Floyd More from Video Hostels are communal places ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Capsule hotels — hotels that feature futuristic pods instead of rooms — are a Japanese staple. Said to originally have been developed for traveling businessmen ...

This episode looks inside the time capsule project, in which cells and other samples from a variety of endangered species unique to Japan are frozen in order to preserve the future of biodiversity.