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JAPAN
Aug 14, 2017

Aichi's mobile supermarkets keeps seniors stocked with groceries, checks in on aging customers

Mobile supermarkets are beginning to pop up in urban areas, including Nagoya.
EDITORIALS
Jan 10, 2016

Reforming mobile phone rate plans

The nation's three big mobile phone providers are finally coming under pressure to make their rate plans more fair and easier to understand.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015

Railway companies in eastern Japan set to relax rules for cellphones when near priority seats

Since 2003, railways have asked passengers to turn off their mobile phones when near "silver" priority seats, for fear electromagnetic interference from the devices could interact with pacemakers, harming the wearer.
EDITORIALS
Apr 29, 2014

Deregulating the telecom industry

An expert panel of the communications ministry is reviewing anti-monopoly protections against the NTT group and is expected to recommend this fall whether regulations on the telecom giant should be eased.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2008

Japan to market mobile tech abroad

Japan will start an aggressive push to market its mobile technology abroad, especially the popular "wallet phone," a government official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ALSO OUT THERE
Jan 23, 2008

Mobage-town a rising-star site of mobile users, but filters loom

Just when mobile phone users may have thought the worldwide proliferation of video games and social networking services into the popular culture left little room for radical new tacks, the combination of the two has opened up new avenues.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2003

Mobile phone sales dropped 3% in 2002

Domestic mobile phone sales in 2002 dropped 3 percent from the previous year to 39.39 million units for the second straight year of decline, Gartner Japan Ltd. said Monday.
BUSINESS
May 5, 2001

DoCoMo's 3G service delay raises more questions

Last week's decision by NTT DoCoMo Inc. to scale back the introduction of third generation (3G) mobile phone services confirmed the skepticism of many observers about its launch date. But it proved the company was willing to cut prices to allow more consumers to access its richer, higher-speed content....
COMMUNITY
Jun 11, 2000

Cybird flies big plans for mobile Net future

Kazutomo Robert Hori It came as a very pleasant surprise when an old friend rang from Osaka to tell me that her son's business had taken off like a rocket. The last time I saw Robert was at his wedding seven years ago -- a spectacular if crazy event held on top of a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2020

Decrying 'chaos' of information, China cracks down on mobile web browsers

China's top cyber authority said on Monday it would carry out a "rectification" of Chinese mobile internet browsers to address what it called social concerns over the "chaos" of information being published online.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2019

WeWork talking with T-Mobile's John Legere in search for new CEO

WeWork is considering a candidate with deep ties to its majority shareholder SoftBank Group Corp. as its new chief executive officer, people familiar with the matter have said, in hopes of turning around the troubled coworking company.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 18, 2018

Mobile phones spreading 'decadent and reactionary ideological culture,' North Korean media warns

North Korea's main state newspaper warned on Tuesday of the "negative impact" from mobile phones use around the world, as both legal and illicit communications devices proliferate in the isolated country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2018

Ministry panel starts talks on cuts to mobile phone tariffs

A study group at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications held its first meeting Wednesday, where it discussed ways to spur industry competition with the aim of lowering mobile phone fees in the nation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2015

Government leans on mobile carriers to simplify pricing

The government has said the pricing schemes used in mobile phone services lack transparency and fairness, with bills taking up a rising share of household budgets.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2015

A third of Americans would forgo sex to keep mobile phone

Almost a third of Americans would rather give up sex for a year than part with their mobile phone for that long, according to a survey by The Boston Consulting Group.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2014

Mobile truck stores filling void in shrinking suburbs

As the population shrinks in Tokyo's outskirts and stores close down, some businesses are spotting a niche for mobile stores operating from the back of delivery trucks.
BUSINESS
Jan 25, 2011

Mobile slump hits KDDI 3Q profit

KDDI Corp., the second-largest cell phone operator, said Monday that third-quarter profit fell as a slump in its wireless business offset improved earnings from fixed line service.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Sep 22, 2010

Tokyo Game Show exhibits signs of mobile-game trend

Major video-game makers wowed game fans at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) on the weekend with products such as Sony's 3-D games, Microsoft's controller-free motion-sensor system Kinect and Capcom's super popular "Monster Hunter" series.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jun 8, 2010

Mobile game startup boss set own bar

David "DC" Collier, 44, from Britain, could not speak a word of Japanese when he first came here seven years ago.

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