TOKYO (Reuters) - A jacket with built-in fans, a road coating to rein in heat and factory mist sprayers were on offer at a trade fair in the Japanese capital on Thursday as it struggles with record ...

A Japanese scientist who won a record $189 million court award last year for transferring his patent rights over the breakthrough blue LED to his employer has agreed to settle the appeal case for ¥840 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shigeichi Negishi invented the first karaoke machine in 1967. The Sparko Box resulted in thousands of copycat versions being made.

Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world's first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan. He was 100 years old. According to the Wall Street Journal, Negishi's daughter Atsumi ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hiroaki Hayashi, Yuichi Tsuchiya and Tomohiro Kodama, all from Nagano, Japan, have developed a technology for determining device usage. An abstract of the invention, ...

Japanese inventors have found a way to discourage rush-hour groping in crowded areas. A stamp allows victims of harassment to mark their assailants with invisible ink. The mark is in the shape of a ...

We have one man to thank — or blame — for the many nights we've spent yelling our favorite hits down a microphone: Shigeichi Negishi. The Tokyo-based entrepreneur who invented the world's first ...