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“We aim to be operational by 2020, the year when Tokyo welcomes the Olympics Games”, Yoshida Moritaka, Toyota’s chief safety technology officer, told media.

Toyota has been a relative latecomer to the push to design automated automobiles. Toyota believes that mobility should mean safety, efficiency and freedom, and is ramping up its research into and development of automated driving technologies, with the goal of launching products...

For sport this is actually a possibility go back to the Olympic… While skateboarding already has the X Games, a World Cup, and Red Bull events, they still don’t have the audience of the biggest global sporting event.

Tony Hawk told TIME that if skateboarding were to become an Olympic event it would bring a new relevancy to the sport that Hawk himself helped legitimize by attracting the public’s eye. While skateboarding already has the X Games, a World Cup, and Red Bull events, they...

“We are satisfied that often looking through has been used for incorporation within the 2020 Games due to Tokyo Olympic Organizers”, said Kieren Perrow, Commissioner along the World Surf League, the sport’s worldwide qualified gradient.

Japanese bulk-shipper Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha sought bankruptcy protection in both Tokyo and New York Tuesday, with plans to restructure $1.5 billion in debt.

“We are pleased that surfing has been recommended for inclusion in the 2020 Games by the Tokyo Olympic Organizers”. Final word on the inclusion of the sports will come next August when the International Olympic Committee will make a ruling at the 129th IOC Session in Rio.

The Tokyo Olympic organisers will propose five sport categories – a baseball/softball joint bid, karate, skateboarding, climbing and surfing – to the worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), which will formally announce new entries for the 2020 Games ahead of the 2016 Rio...

Yoshida also explained that developers could find great success, even with a small budget, provided that they came up with an interesting use of the technology. One of the examples is a soccer game called Headmaster.

Factoring in the cost of the PS4 itself, it would cost a little below $1,000 to enjoy virtual reality games on Sony’s platform.

Microsoft is working on its own HoloLens, which is offering augmented reality rather than VR, and the company has said that it might initially focus on more practical applications for the platform before moving into the gaming space with it.

Unlike in July, when the bills were passed by the lower house amid an opposition walkout, the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan remained in the chamber and voted against the bills.

Reports suggested the price for the stadium had rocketed to 252billion yen (£1.3bn) and on Tuesday IOC vice president John Coates set Japan a deadline of January 2020 to deliver the arena.

Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over whether its deadly destruction was justified. Abe said that to demonstrate this determination, Japan will introduce a new resolution at...

Nevertheless, opinion polls show a majority of the Japanese public oppose the return to nuclear energy.