A demonstration at a Tokyo museum was held on Tuesday where two human androids displayed their ability to speak by delivering the news to a room of reporters.

Google has issued an apology for putting up a Doodle which honored Japanese Go player Honinbo Shusaku on its UK site on June 6 - the 70th anniversary of D-Day, which marked the beginning of the invasion of Nazi-held Europe by the Allies.

Fishermen have caught a rare catch, a 13-foot long female megamouth shark. The shark nearly 1,500 pounds was caught off the coast of Japan. The shark is so rare that the recent catch in Japan marks the 58th sighting of it till date.

It might not be shocking for many to know that 60% of Japanese people support the country's whaling programme. However, only 14% of them agreed that they eat whale meat.

The liberal Asahi Shimbun newspaper carried out a weekend poll involving 1,756 voters. The poll result unveiled 60% of the participants supported the 'research' whaling programme and 23% have opposed it.