Despite its reputation for being a cutting-edge tech utopia, Japan is also known for being weirdly anachronistic about some technologies. Fax machines, flip phones, and a reluctance to give up cash ...

Noah Braasch, a 2023 Presidential Scholar, is graduating from Western with bachelor’s degrees in both computer engineering and Japanese. Braasch went snowboarding in the mountains of Nagano, Japan, ...

Researchers have built a mechanical computer inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting. The proof-of-concept computer, which includes no electronic components, has 64 ...

There was a revolution in the 1980s. It started in the military and the space industry, but it didn’t use rockets or weapons. Instead, it used computers and floppy disks. The revolution was the ...