Tóquio

Interesting facts

The most famous district in Tokyo is tired of the litter: Shibuya now fines those who litter and threatens businesses without trash cans, showing that not even Japanese discipline has withstood the pressure of tourists, youth, and consumption on the streets.

Carla Teles 15/06/2026 at 17:35

Geopolitics

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning conducts about 170 takeoffs and landings in the Western Pacific, but Japanese surveillance turns the training into a regional alert: Beijing denies specific targeting while Tokyo monitors the fleet that passed 590 km from Miyakojima, reigniting tension in Asia.

Carla Teles 14/06/2026 at 23:23

Science and Technology

Tokyo ‘devours’ up to 1.54 billion liters of sewage per day: Japan’s largest plant heats sludge in digesters, transforms waste into methane gas, and generates enough energy to reduce part of the plant’s own consumption.

Alisson Ficher 02/06/2026 at 16:00

Construction

Tokyo built a $2 billion underground cathedral with 500-ton pillars and silos as tall as 20-story buildings to counter the floods that threaten to destroy one of the largest urban economies.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 27/05/2026 at 21:35

Casa transparente no Japão desafia padrões da construção civil

Interesting facts

Transparent House in Japan Challenges Construction Standards, Eliminates Walls, Uses 21 Interconnected Platforms with Glass and Steel Structure, Exposing Residents and Redefining Urban Engineering in One of the Densest Cities on the Planet

Flavia Marinho 28/02/2026 at 21:06

Adeus aos últimos pandas do Japão Lei Lei e Xiao Xiao deixam hoje Tóquio rumo à China, encerram 50 anos no país e expõem tensão crescente entre Pequim e Tóquio (2)

Interesting facts

Farewell to the Last Pandas of Japan: Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao Depart Tokyo for China Today, Ending 50 Years in the Country and Highlighting Growing Tensions between Beijing and Tokyo

Carla Teles 27/01/2026 at 18:45

Tóquio vira megacidade sem centro: Shinjuku puxa o transporte público em trens lotados, enquanto a escala urbana impressiona com décadas de crescimento.

Interesting facts

Tokyo Became a ‘Monster’ of 41 Million in 400 Years: From a Village Called Edo to a Centerless Megacity, Featuring Record-Breaking Shinjuku, Crowded Trains, Bullet Trains, Giant Sewers, and Neighborhoods That Resemble Multiple Manhattans, With 22 Hours of Walking

Bruno Teles 23/01/2026 at 00:03

Táxi Toyota Crown FCEV a hidrogênio circulando pelas ruas de Tóquio em ambiente urbano moderno.

Hydrogen-powered vehicles

Tokyo Launches Operation of First Hydrogen Toyota Crown FCEV Taxis and Moves Forward with Plan to Deploy 200 Vehicles by End of 2025

Hilton Libório 03/12/2025 at 19:43

Jacarta ultrapassa Tóquio e lidera ranking global das megacidades mais populosas, revela relatório atualizado da ONU.

Geopolitics

World’s Most Populous City Now Is Jakarta, Indonesia, According to UN Report

Sara Aquino 26/11/2025 at 21:06

Japoneses vivem em cubículos de cafés internet em Tóquio, presos a salários baixos e a uma rotina de isolamento silencioso e exaustivo, crédito: Canal Drew Binsky

Interesting facts

With 5,400 Japanese People Living Hidden in 3×6 Foot Cubicles, Karin’s Routine Reveals Internet Cafes Turning into Homes, Low Wages, Unaffordable Rent, Extreme Social Isolation, and a Youth Without Options in Japan

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 21/11/2025 at 19:44

Vitorioso desde os 15 anos, estudante paulista de 17 desbanca potências como China e EUA, conquista ouro inédito e eleva o Brasil ao pódio da ciência mundial

Science and Technology

Victorious Since Age 15, 17-Year-Old Student from São Paulo Beats Powers Like China and the USA, Wins Unprecedented Gold and Elevates Brazil to the World Science Podium

Carla Teles 05/10/2025 at 20:02

Construction

With The Increase of Floods in Brazil, See The Underground System That Could Serve As A Model: Tokyo Invests in Mega Project with Chambers, Tunnels, and 14,000-Horsepower Pumps

Roberta Souza 02/10/2025 at 12:22

The most famous district in Tokyo is tired of the litter: Shibuya now fines those who litter and threatens businesses without trash cans, showing that not even Japanese discipline has withstood the pressure of tourists, youth, and consumption on the streets.

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning conducts about 170 takeoffs and landings in the Western Pacific, but Japanese surveillance turns the training into a regional alert: Beijing denies specific targeting while Tokyo monitors the fleet that passed 590 km from Miyakojima, reigniting tension in Asia.

Tokyo ‘devours’ up to 1.54 billion liters of sewage per day: Japan’s largest plant heats sludge in digesters, transforms waste into methane gas, and generates enough energy to reduce part of the plant’s own consumption.

Tokyo built a $2 billion underground cathedral with 500-ton pillars and silos as tall as 20-story buildings to counter the floods that threaten to destroy one of the largest urban economies.

Transparent House in Japan Challenges Construction Standards, Eliminates Walls, Uses 21 Interconnected Platforms with Glass and Steel Structure, Exposing Residents and Redefining Urban Engineering in One of the Densest Cities on the Planet

Farewell to the Last Pandas of Japan: Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao Depart Tokyo for China Today, Ending 50 Years in the Country and Highlighting Growing Tensions between Beijing and Tokyo

Tokyo Became a ‘Monster’ of 41 Million in 400 Years: From a Village Called Edo to a Centerless Megacity, Featuring Record-Breaking Shinjuku, Crowded Trains, Bullet Trains, Giant Sewers, and Neighborhoods That Resemble Multiple Manhattans, With 22 Hours of Walking

Tokyo Launches Operation of First Hydrogen Toyota Crown FCEV Taxis and Moves Forward with Plan to Deploy 200 Vehicles by End of 2025

World’s Most Populous City Now Is Jakarta, Indonesia, According to UN Report

With 5,400 Japanese People Living Hidden in 3×6 Foot Cubicles, Karin’s Routine Reveals Internet Cafes Turning into Homes, Low Wages, Unaffordable Rent, Extreme Social Isolation, and a Youth Without Options in Japan

Victorious Since Age 15, 17-Year-Old Student from São Paulo Beats Powers Like China and the USA, Wins Unprecedented Gold and Elevates Brazil to the World Science Podium

With The Increase of Floods in Brazil, See The Underground System That Could Serve As A Model: Tokyo Invests in Mega Project with Chambers, Tunnels, and 14,000-Horsepower Pumps

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

Hidden beneath a small entrance in Namibia’s underground, the largest underground lake in the world is the size of 2 football fields, 264 meters deep, and even has rare animals that survive without sunlight.