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Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 30, 2015
From 'samurai' to 'Hello Kitty,' search data show how the world's view of Japan has changed
Analytics data suggest Japan is better known abroad as the land of Hello Kitty than as a country full of swaggering samurai and mincing geisha.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2015
On China's fringes, cyberspies raise their game
Almost a year after students ended pro-democracy street protests in Hong Kong, they face an online battle against what Western security experts say are China-sponsored hackers using techniques rarely seen elsewhere.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 14, 2015
IT companies scramble to take advantage of Shibuya's transport networks, proximity to youth culture
Shibuya is famous for its scramble crossing, shopping and youth culture but the district has also established itself as a hub for myriad IT firms and Internet-based startups, leading some to describe it as the equivalent to Silicon Valley in the U.S. state of California.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2015
Social media photos purport to show Russian soldiers in multiple Syria locations, bloggers say
Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 7, 2015
YouTubers in Japan with 100,000 fans and counting
YouTube threw a big celebration for more than 20 YouTubers living in Japan who have over 100,000 subscribers.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 3, 2015
China admits over 40 percent of its online sales counterfeit, shoddy
More than 40 percent of goods sold online in China last year were either counterfeits or of bad quality, the official Xinhua News Agency said, illustrating the extent of a problem that has bogged down the fast-growing online sector.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 23, 2015
Nigerian answer to Spotify lures investors from MTN to Jay-Z
The mansion, the pool, the Bentley, the life-size portrait and the gold medallions are the spoils of a revolution in Nigeria and music superstar D'banj is enjoying them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2015
Facebook is following you around the Internet
Social media platforms like Facebook may be pretty intrusive in how they follow your Internet activity, but that's the price of using these 'free' services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2015
Automakers look to tech firms to fix cars over the air
As cars increasingly resemble digital devices, a group of technology firms that can send wireless software updates to cars are in hot demand by carmakers scrambling to catch up to Tesla Motors in the arena of over-the-air updates, or OTAs.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2015
The inexorable logic of the sharing economy
Today's sharing-economy companies like Amazon and eBay have left their infancy, and their services will one day be ubiquitous.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2015
Overseas online purchases to be taxed in bid to protect domestic industries
Consumers in Japan will pay sales tax on overseas online purchases from Thursday in a policy change to eliminate the price advantage of foreign firms over domestic rivals.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2015
Twitter may expand 140-character limit with new product
Twitter is finally waking up to the idea that some things just cannot be summed up in 140 characters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2015
U.S. government discovers new email Clinton did not hand over
The U.S. Defense Department has found an email chain that Hillary Rodham Clinton did not give to the State Department, the State Department said on Friday, despite her saying she had provided all work emails from her time as secretary of state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 23, 2015
U.S.-China hacking deal likely to skip industrial espionage for now
Disputes over what is acceptable behavior in cyberspace threaten to overshadow the agenda when Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama meet in Washington late this week.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2015
Internet growth slows and most people are still offline, U.N. says
Growth in the number of people with access to the Internet is slowing, and more than half the world's population is still offline, the United Nations Broadband Commission said Monday.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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