“Aged maguro” sounds so much better than “old tuna.” When it comes to sushi and sashimi, many say that for the best taaste you should use the absolute freshest fish. However, when it comes to maguro (tuna), apparently, this isn’t necessarily the case. At a press conference on Thursday (Nov. 7) the popular kaiten-zushi (“revolving sushi”) chain Kura Sushi (Kura-Zushi) announced that …

This is how the trains become sentient. Given how incredibly efficient and complex Japan’s train system is, it’s easy to forget that just about every single train in Japan is still operated by a human conductor. However, it’s beginning to look like human-operated trains may soon go the way of coal locomotives because tests for a new “driverless” train system …