Budget plane with women's support project logo

Budget plane with women's support project logo

Photo taken at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 4, 2024, shows an airplane of the Japan Airlines-affiliated low-cost carrier Zipair Tokyo, featuring the logo of the "Girls Be Ambitious" project launched by Be-A Japan, a Tokyo-based startup developing and selling absorbent period shorts to support women in the workforce.

Budget plane with women's support project logo

Budget plane with women's support project logo

Photo taken at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 4, 2024, shows an airplane of the Japan Airlines-affiliated low-cost carrier Zipair Tokyo, featuring the logo of the "Girls Be Ambitious" project launched by Be-A Japan, a Tokyo-based startup developing and selling absorbent period shorts to support women in the workforce.

Absorbent to soak up radioactive water

Absorbent to soak up radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bag of polymeric water absorbent, the same type of material used by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to stop the leakage of highly radioactive water into the sea at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 3, 2011.

U.S. fighter Raptor at S. Korea base

U.S. fighter Raptor at S. Korea base

SEOUL, South Korea - An F-22 Raptor stealth fighter of the U.S. Air Force is seen parked at the Osan base of the U.S. military in South Korea on July 26, 2010. The U.S. military showed the high-tech plane coated with a radar absorbent material to the media on the sidelines of a joint drill with South Korea.

Kyoto University team develops tritium absorbent

Kyoto University team develops tritium absorbent

A bottle of tritium absorption catalyst developed by a Kyoto University team is shown on April 22, 2015. Using protonic manganese oxide with a spinel crystal structure, it is hoped tritium can be extracted from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.S. fighter Raptor at S. Korea base

U.S. fighter Raptor at S. Korea base

SEOUL, South Korea - An F-22 Raptor stealth fighter of the U.S. Air Force is seen parked at the Osan base of the U.S. military in South Korea on July 26, 2010. The U.S. military showed the high-tech plane coated with a radar absorbent material to the media on the sidelines of a joint drill with South Korea. (Kyodo)

Absorbent to soak up radioactive water

Absorbent to soak up radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bag of polymeric water absorbent, the same type of material used by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to stop the leakage of highly radioactive water into the sea at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 3, 2011. (Kyodo)

Daiwa House to sell 1st quake-cushioning house in Japan

Daiwa House to sell 1st quake-cushioning house in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Daiwa House Industry Co. said April 4 it will begin selling April 14 what it claims to be Japan's first prefabricated house featuring earthquake-absorbent technology. The company said the two-story house, Statement With C, can withstand a quake as powerful as the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western Japanese port city of Kobe.