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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Apr 15, 2019

In ideological battle with U.S., China wins over allies with its censored vision of the internet

A swath of the world is adopting China's vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Dec 22, 2018

Defining the Heisei Era: When communication in Japan went mobile

The launch of a pager known as the Pocket Bell marked the birth of texting and mobile communications in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Dec 20, 2018

2018 was a busy year for gamers in Japan, with established franchises and open world epics reigning supreme

Many gamers began 2018 by teaming up with a garishly outfitted cat and rushing into battle against a big, angry monster. Some of those same people will usher out the year by punching Nintendo icon Mario in his famously mustachioed face.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2018

Japanese buzzwords of 2018 nominees reflect myriad influences and issues

Thirty candidates for buzzword of the year, announced Wednesday, highlight the numerous scandals that rocked Japan's amateur sports, the brutal summer of natural disasters as well as the country's response to the worldwide #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 5, 2018

Apple and Amazon deny Bloomberg report on Chinese hardware attack and chip infiltration

Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. denied a Bloomberg report on Thursday that their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence, according to statements from the companies released by Bloomberg.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 15, 2018

Japanese media face hostility in disaster coverage on social media

Typhoon Jebi caused all sorts of damage when the storm — the most powerful in 25 years to hit the country — tore through western Japan earlier this month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2018

Amazon announces strong profit for first quarter of 2018 as sales jump to $51 billion

Amazon.com Inc. more than doubled its profit in an announcement on Thursday and predicted strong spring results as the world's biggest online retailer raised the price for U.S. Prime subscribers, added U.S. football games and touted its cloud services for business.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2018

Will America's internet giants prove to be toothless?

The next few years are likely to be less friendly to Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.
Japan Times
Nov 17, 2017

Pubcen Inc. Unveils its Lifelog / Content Curation Service

Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan – November 17, 2017 – Today Pubcen Inc. (CEO & Co-Founder: Takao Sato) launched its flagship cloud service, “Pubcen.” People throughout the world perpetually create digital content for their online lives via SNS and cloud services. Pubcen gathers the digital...
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2017

Newspapers thrive, in India

While print media struggles to survive elsewhere, India's rising literacy rate is keeping its dailies firmly in the black.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 7, 2017

Government-backed IT agency urges WordPress users to update after hacks

With the recent spike in the number of cyberattacks on websites using the popular web-management platform WordPress, a government-backed IT security agency urged website administrators and managers to patch a vulnerability that allows hackers to deface their sites.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 1, 2016

Billionaire Huang and his rehab centers strengthen Philippines and Chinese ties

At the end of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's landmark visit to China last month, he held a brief, private meeting with a businessman who may have played a crucial role in improving ties between the two nations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 21, 2016

Japan's cybersecurity upgrade — too little, too late?

The Internet facilitates rapid data-sharing and increased communication between individuals, firms and government entities. This generates significant risks but, for most of the 2000s, Japan did not take commensurate countermeasures. The complacent attitude toward information technology security has...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 20, 2016

Dispatches from the Kumamoto quake zone

Personal accounts relate tales of kindness and resilience after the initial confusion and panic of last week's deadly temblors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 19, 2016

Abe insider wages one-man campaign to challenge foreign media over reporting 'mistakes'

An Internet strategy adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keeping his eyes peeled for what he calls "mistakes" by foreign media, because he thinks nobody in the government or the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ever paid proper attention.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2015

Cyberspace becomes second front in Russia's clash with NATO

Russian computer attacks have become more brazen and more destructive as the country grows increasingly at odds with the U.S. and European nations over military goals first in Ukraine and now Syria.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 20, 2015

Google appeals order to remove info about man's buying of sex from minor

Google Inc. is seeing to reverse a Saitama court decision ordering it to remove links to Web articles about a man convicted of paying a 16-year-old girl for sex three years ago.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Jan 10, 2015

Point systems stir privacy fears among Net users

The battle for point card supremacy in loyalty programs is hotting up across the country, causing consumers to express concern over privacy issues as a growing number of companies get in on the act.
WORLD
Nov 15, 2014

Russia plans to create 'detailed, reliable' alternative version of Wikipedia

Russia plans to create its own version of Wikipedia to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said Friday.
LIFE / Digital
May 16, 2014

Trying to be anonymous on the Internet can attract more attention

When searching for an adjective to describe our comprehensively surveilled networked world — the one bookmarked by the NSA at one end and by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Co. at the other — "Orwellian" is the word that people generally reach for.
WORLD
Mar 30, 2014

Governments hacking media: Google experts

Twenty-one of the world's 25 leading news organizations have been the target of likely government-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 28, 2013

Cracking the feminist psyche, wallet

On the evening of Dec. 19, a Pantene commercial ran on U.S. television that skirted all the formal avenues of parent company Procter & Gamble's typical advertising process. Storyboards weren't pored over in P&G's Cincinnati headquarters. Average Americans didn't provide feedback in consumer research...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2013

How I bought drugs from 'dark net' — it's just like Amazon run by cartels

Dear FBI agents, my name is Carole Cadwalladr and in February this year I was asked to investigate the so-called dark net for a feature in a newspaper. I downloaded Tor on to my computer, the anonymous browser developed by the U.S. Navy, Googled "Silk Road drugs" and then cut and pasted this link silkroadvb5piz3r.onion...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2013

The desperate search for online privacy is over

Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2013

Europe forces Google to make searches fairer

There soon could be two Googles: one built for Europeans, with links to rival search engines and labels alerting users whenever Google is featuring its own products, and another version for everyone else.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Mar 13, 2013

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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 22, 2013

Sisters are DIYing it for themselves

When you have a pink hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Dec 3, 2012

Japan's top 10 buzzwords for 2012

Here they are: the top 10 phrases and words that made waves in 2012.
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
May 16, 2012

Japan's social-gaming industry hindered by government's anti-gambling move

When it comes to mobile social-gaming, nowhere is it as popular or as profitable as it is in Japan. The nation's two industry giants, Gree and its rival DeNA's Mobage, have been increasing their sales every quarter for years. Gree's TV-commercial campaigns are second only to cosmetics company Shiseido...

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