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CAMERAS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2018
Japan's digital camera shipments post first increase in seven years thanks to social media surge
Japan's digital camera industry, which has been hit hard by the explosive growth of the camera-equipped smartphone market, may have finally found a ray of hope — thanks to Instagram users showing off their private lives online.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 21, 2017
St. Louis OKs trial year for police body cameras ahead of sixth night of protests
St. Louis officials decided on Wednesday to supply police officers with body cameras for a year as the city prepares for a sixth night of protests after a white former police officer was acquitted of killing a black man.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Aug 20, 2017
Learning to become snap happy with an instant camera in Japan
My 5-year-old daughter has something precious in her hands. It's perfectly square, with a bright orange body, a black lens, a neck strap, a distinct red dot logo — and it's making me nervous.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jan 14, 2017
Here's to a new age of 'reality'
Feel the power of VR
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2015
Sony CEO aims to build on recovery with Toshiba sensor deal
Sony Corp. is looking to expand on its dominant position in making the chips used to capture smartphone pictures, as President Kazuo Hirai makes progress in his turnaround effort at the struggling consumer electronics maker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 7, 2015
Sony developing 1,000-pictures-a-second sensor
Sony Corp. built a dominant position in image sensors by helping people take high-quality photos with smartphones. Now, the company is focusing on sensors that take photos at least 10 times faster than the human eye can see.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 3, 2015
Selfie madness: too many dying to get the picture
The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful — and dangerous — places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 20, 2015
Sony unveils flagship Xperia Z4 smartphone in Japan
Sony Corp. unveiled the latest version of its flagship smartphone on Monday, with the product set to debut in Japan this summer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ADVANCES IN PROGRESS
Dec 7, 2014
Synthetic fluorite puts lens biz in focus
Iwatani Corp. brightened the outlook for camera fans in October by announcing it had developed the world's first viable technology for synthesizing high-purity fluorite — an element critical to making the world's best lenses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2014
Instant camera gets mojo back with cute focus, Korean push
Digital cameras and smartphones have become so pervasive that many people think film cameras are now fit only for antique collectors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2014
Ailing Olympus hunts for new camera markets
Olympus Corp. said it's looking for new camera markets such as sensors used in cars after forecasting a loss in the business for this fiscal year — its fifth straight annual deficit.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 17, 2014
Nikon to fix camera flaws cited by China
Nikon Corp. said it will fix digital cameras at no charge after claims on Chinese state-run television that product defects caused "black spots" on photographs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2013
Sony's Hirai mixes camera, phone geeks to catch Apple
For Kazuo Hirai, creating Sony Corp.'s flagship smartphone was too important to be left to the company's mobile phone experts.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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