Tokyo (AFP) – One of Tokyo's last handmade umbrella shops has weathered many storms and is now thriving thanks to booming demand for parasols as Japanese summers ...

Ah, June in Japan. The season of warm weather, early sunrises, and sudden guerrilla storms that come out of nowhere, soak you right down to the underpants, and then leave you steaming in your soggy ...

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This has got to be the official umbrella of Web 2.0. A group of scientists at Tokyo’s Keio University have developed an umbrella with a digital camera, WiFi, and a projector built-in dubbed “Pileus”.

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(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 62-YEAR-OLD ARTIST, KAZUHISA KUSABA, SAYING: "When I was thinking of a way to thoroughly protect oneself and others, I came up with the idea of an umbrella, since there will ...

Japanese researchers in Japan have developed a clever way to turn an entire umbrella into one giant speaker. Made of bamboo and paper, the Oto-Shigure uses a built-in amplifier connected to four tiny ...

TOKYO - One of Tokyo's last handmade umbrella shops has weathered many storms and is now thriving thanks to booming demand for parasols as Japanese summers get hotter, including increasingly from men.