✈️ Japan just hit MACH 5! 🚀

Waseda, JAXA, UTokyo & Keio completed Japan's first Mach 5 combustion test for a hypersonic passenger plane. Can it catch up with Hermeus, Lockheed & China?

#Hypersonic #JAXA #Mach5 #Aerospace #FutureOfFlight

🍜 Tenkasu (tempura crumbs) is going GLOBAL 🌍

Otafuku's new Nagasaki factory just boosted output 1.5x — from 4,200 to 6,300 tons/year. Europeans are putting it on sushi rolls now. Britain's chip-shop 'scraps' finally meet their match!

#Tenkasu #Okonomiyaki #JapaneseFood

🔬 Japanese scientists built a tool that uses LIGHT to dissolve ALS-linked protein clumps inside living cells 🧬

Tokushima University's 'OptoChaperone' could accelerate ALS & Alzheimer's drug discovery. Published in JACS.

#ALS #Biotech #OptoChaperone #Alzheimers

✨ Studio Ghibli is releasing a BRAND NEW short film! 🧙‍♀️

'A Night in the Valley of Witches' premieres July 8, 2026 at Ghibli Park in Aichi — the first original short made exclusively for the park.

#Ghibli #StudioGhibli #GhibliPark #AnimeNews

🚗 Your next Toyota could drive ITSELF — fully.

Waymo + Toyota just partnered to bring robotaxi-grade L4 autonomy to personally owned cars. A direct challenge to Tesla's camera-only FSD and Baidu Apollo.

#Waymo #Toyota #SelfDriving #Autonomous #L4

🎀 Hello Kitty is going GAMING! ✨

Sanrio just launched Sanrio Games — an in-house publishing label. First title 'Sanrio Party Land' hits Switch worldwide this fall, with 10 games planned by 2029. Cozy game boom incoming!

#Sanrio #HelloKitty #CozyGames #NintendoSwitch

🗡️ ELDEN RING MOVIE confirmed for March 3, 2028! 🎬

Alex Garland directs (Civil War, Ex Machina). A24 produces with Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw & Cailee Spaeny. Reportedly A24's MOST expensive film ever — $100M+, shot for IMAX.

#EldenRing #A24 #AlexGarland #FromSoftware

💸 Hitachi is OUT of home appliances.

Nojima is buying the iconic business for ¥110B ($692M). Another Japanese electronics giant retreats from B2C — just like GE & Philips before them.

#Hitachi #Nojima #JapanBusiness #Electronics #Acquisition

🎤 Fujii Kaze just dropped his Coachella Week 2 'Prema' video AND announced a WORLD TOUR 🌏

Kaohsiung, Bangkok, Seoul first — then Germany, UK, France & 6 North American cities in 2027.

#FujiiKaze #Prema #Coachella2026 #JPop #WorldTour

⚔️ Historic shift: Japan just LEGALIZED lethal weapons exports.

The Takaichi cabinet scrapped the postwar 'Five Categories' rule — warships & missiles can now be exported. The 'pacifist nation' era is officially changing.

#JapanDefense #Takaichi #Geopolitics #WeaponsExport

🎬 Netflix is making a LIVE-ACTION Gundam movie! 🤖

Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo & Shioli Kutsuna leading the cast. Filming now in Australia — the first live-action in Gundam's 47-year history.

#Gundam #Netflix #SydneySweeney #LiveAction #Anime

🌱 From a Sapporo gospel choir to a Taipei jazz club.

R&B star Furui Riho just announced her FIRST solo concert outside Japan — Billboard Live Tour "The Garden" hits Tokyo, Osaka & Taipei this September.

One of Japan's most soulful voices goes global.

#FuruiRiho #Taipei

🐉 A 10-year wait is OVER.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 is confirmed for 2027 on PS5/Xbox/PC — built on a NEW timeline (AGE 1000) with original characters designed by Akira Toriyama himself before he passed.

His final gift to DB fans.

#DragonBall #Xenoverse3 #Toriyama

🎮 Japan sent a deadly FGC roster to Korea.

Tekken legend NOBI. CAPCOM CUP 12 4th-place Higuchi. KOF veteran SCORE. Three players, three games, ONE team gold at ECA 2026 — a warm-up for September's Asian Games on Japanese soil.

#FGC #ECA2026 #Tekken #StreetFighter

📡 The reason your phone won't connect to 6G? Your window.

NTT's answer: a 3.5μm transparent sticker that bends radio waves around your building. World's thinnest metasurface — mass-producible on existing LCD lines.

Japan just took the 6G lead.

#NTT #6G #Metasurface