Okayama Prefecture, along the coast from Yamaguchi to the Kansai area is developing technology to help landlocked towns and villages get connected to the transportation network. One of the most recent examples dates back to 2016, when Toyota’s Mobility Foundation decided to hand $1.1m in funding to two local NPOs to explore transportation via microEVs […]
Last autumn during a brief stopover in Dubai, I was walking around the back alleys of the Perfume Souk and was greeted by a waft of smoke from a small shop as I turned the corner into another nondescript sidestreet. Intrigued I walked in and bought that local “Bakhoor” incense (agarwood mixed with other perfumes […]
Designed and operated by British engineers and built by local Japanese workers, the first Japanese railway line connecting Tokyo’s Shinbashi Station to Yokohama in 1872 for me defines Kanagawa as a historic location for mechanized transportation and cutting-edge technology exchange. Back in the late 1990s, as part of a British Foreign Office-sponsored program, I applied […]
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