Ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Japanese police deployed signal jammers and guns that fired nets designed to bring down ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Tokyo police have adopted a new system for dealing with illegal drones. They now have a fleet of drone catchers, each equipped with a 10-foot net that can capture a ...

A drone flies over a riverside space in Tokyo’s Kita Ward traditionally reserved for BBQ parties during a ceremony to mark the opening of the area on Dec. 16, 2021. (Provided by the ward government) ...

“The year 2022 will be a landmark year for drones in Japan,” says Takeshi Tsuchiya, a professor of aerospace engineering at The University of Tokyo. Japan, long known for strict regulations of ...

On December 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department staged a media photo-op to show off their new interceptor drone, designed to quickly neutralize rogue civilian drones by snagging them in ...