Using the machines to absorb the planet-warming pollution they create is definitely a step in the right direction. These vending machines are being used to suck pollution out of the air — here's how ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine is keeping its place on U.S. military bases, despite a nationwide round-up of obsolete machines. Many of the 4.1 million vending ...

If you are planning to visit Japan, you will find vending machines everywhere! Here's why they will become your companion during your travel trip.

Before there was a Starbucks on every corner, time-crunched Americans could get a quick caffeine fix straight from their office vending machines. But nowadays, coffee vending machines offering piping ...

If you are planning to visit Japan, you will find vending machines everywhere! Here's why they will become your companion during your travel trip. Being prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, Japan has ...

Eiji Ohashi, from the series Roadside Lights (all photos courtesy the artist) Unlike vending machines in many other countries, those in Japan sell everything from drinks to ramen to floral ...

A Japanese noodle manufacturer has launched the world’s first canned ramen made with wheat noodles which will soon be available in vending machines across the country. Maruyama Seimen’s canned version ...

Japan has said it intends to allow the hunting of endangered fin whales, some of the largest whales in the ocean. This decision comes as the country opens more and more vending machines selling whale ...

You deposit your coins and make your choice: dried squid or hair tonic, batteries or green tea, boxers or beer. It’s all enticingly on display under the fluorescent lights of a truck-sized vending ...

In Japan, you can find advanced automated parking systems that fit as many cars as possible into very small spaces. They are ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Smokers in Japan will no longer be able to buy cigarettes from vending machines from next year without an ID card that says they are adults under a new system that aims to make it ...