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An announcement becomes text. A starting signal becomes light. 🏟️💬 Tokyo’s public guide shares lessons from the 2025 World Athletics Championships and Deaflympics so future hosts can make participation easier. One event’s experience becomes the next event’s starting point. 🤝

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At this station, café staff also help passengers board trains.🚉

At Nagayo Station in Nagasaki, Japan, the café offers work opportunity for people with disabilities. Workshops co-led by people with disabilities explore travel barriers—learning from users to make journeys easier.

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Lessons from Thailand are helping expectant mothers in Japan. 🌏🔄

Developed in Kagawa Prefecture, the iCTG fetal monitor was refined with Thai clinicians to keep recording when connections drop. Those improvements now support care back in Japan. Knowledge travels both ways. 🤝

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This is what it looks like when invisible water becomes visible 💧✨

A digital twin technology from Japan brings the hidden movement of water into view, above and below ground, offering new perspectives on challenges from floods to water shortages. 🌍🔍

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After delivering supplies, this spacecraft became a space lab. 🛰️🔬 Japan’s HTV-X1 spent about 2.5 months testing new equipment after leaving the ISS, from solar cells to a deployable panel. One flight supported life in orbit—and technology for future missions. 🌏

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Once protected by the mountain, this castle is now protected by its community. ☁️🏯 Bitchu Matsuyama is Japan’s only mountain castle with an original keep. Locals restored it after years of decay; and later generations continued the work. It now rises above a sea of clouds. ✨

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When every minute counts, could the sky become a lifeline?🚁🇯🇵
From delivering blood products in Mongolia to supporting disaster response, innovative aerial networks are helping solve real-world challenges and paving the way for sky-based infrastructure. 🩸🌏

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One glass sponge. Two new worm species. 🏰🌊
Found during a JAMSTEC–Ocean Census expedition, the worms aren’t close relatives, yet share the same sponge. Their symbiotic lifestyles may have evolved independently—offering new clues to how symbiosis evolves in the deep sea. 🔬

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Emergency food was available. But there wasn’t enough water to eat it with.
Born from lessons of Japan’s 2011 earthquake, LIFE STOCK is a jelly needing no water, power or gas, with a six-year shelf life. 🥫💧 Disaster lessons can shape better design for the next emergency. 🌱

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Did you know there are invisible risks beneath our feet?⚠️

Underground voids linked to sinkholes and aging infrastructure pose a serious threat worldwide. A technology from Japan is garnering attention for using radar and AI to visualize hidden risks without excavation.🔍🌏

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Help us #PickaHeader for October! 🍂

1. Kochia in autumn colors
2. Harvesting rice in golden fields
3. A colorful autumn harvest
4. Swaying susuki grass

Comment with your number by September 29. We'll announce the winner on September 30 and use it as our October header.

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From local craft to global ties.🪵 Tendo’s “Human Shogi” found a counterpart in Marostica, Italy, home to “Human Chess.” Their shared tradition helped spark exchanges, and they became sister cities in 1989. Today, citizen visits and friendship ambassadors keep those ties alive.🤝

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What if hot ramen could be delivered by drone?🍜🚁
Aeronext’s patented tech keeps cargo stable mid-flight—steady enough for ramen. From daily life in Japan to disaster zones and beyond, drones are quietly supporting how people live.✨
🎧Find out more via the link in the thread.

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Package Delivery by an Aeronext Logistics Drone:
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