Tokyo Travel Tips

Tokyo is a fascinating city, and there are many reasons why a trip to Japan's capital can be both easy and inexpensive: tourist information centers are well equipped and multilingual, trains and subways are easy to use, and there are plenty of reasonable hotels. So why not make Tokyo your next holiday destination?

Banishing Pollution with Bacteria

Water pollution is a growing problem worldwide. Natto is a Japanese food made from fermented soybeans. What's the connection? A small company has developed a way of mass production the substance that makes natto so gooey sticky, and uses it in a system that absorbs and removes contaminants from polluted water.

Happy Birthday Astroboy!

Fifty years ago, when Osamu Tezuka first drew Astroboy, the kindhearted humanoid robot, he gave his creation a birth date in the far future - April 7^th, 2003. Now that date has arrived, and fans are celebrating the birthday of their favorite robot. Although robots in 2003 are amazing advanced, there is still quite a way to go before they have the powers imagined by Tezuka.

A Giant Window on the Ocean Giants

The Chura-umi Aquarium in Okinawa has the world's largest fish tank, made from special acrylic plastic. A 22.5 meter front gives a wide screen view of the tank's 16,000 fish, and its 7,500 tons of water provide a spacious, natural environment. The tank is so big that, for the first time ever, scientists are able to study three giant whale sharks living together in the same space.