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JAPAN
Nov 28, 2013
Line censoring messages in China
In another example of the dilemmas facing Internet companies operating in China, Japan-based instant messaging app provider Line Corp. has been censoring chats among users there, blocking the transmission of politically sensitive words and phrases.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2013
Even without a Cold War, the D.C.-Moscow link is still up
At 7:15 on the morning of June 5, 1967, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reached for a handset, one connected to a secure telephone line to a military switchboard at the White House. He asked the operator to ring the Air Force sergeant on duty outside President Lyndon B. Johnson's bedroom.
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Aug 9, 2013
Japan by the numbers (8.9.13)
First check out these fresh stats, then let's think how to get the nutritional breakfast-focused mom percentage up to the LINE user percentage.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 10, 2013
Kimo-kawaii: a chronology in 13 steps
If it's hard to look at but harder to look away, it's kimo-kawaii.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 25, 2013
Japan by the numbers (06.25.13)
We read Japan by the numbers and learn ... Powerpoint rules, and blogs sway a quarter of consumers, but not as much as Abenomics.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 24, 2013
Callers flood New Delhi's hotline for women
The phones ring without a break.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2013
Virtuous, vicious or just circular? Loop line to wed pair
East Japan Railway Co. announced Tuesday that a lucky couple will get the chance to hold a special wedding ceremony on board its Yamanote Line later this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 16, 2013
Line app lined up for DoCoMo smartphones
NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it will team up with the popular social network provider Line to offer a special app for DoCoMo users, aiming to deepen its relationship with the operator of the growing communication tool.
JAPAN
May 6, 2013
Abe asks kids to text him questions
Kyodo
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 31, 2013
As rural rail lines close bus travel gets a makeover
If you live in the Tokyo metropolitan area, you have access to the greatest network in the universe, but if you don't you may find your local transportation options dwindling.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 22, 2013
Already a huge hit, Line aims for SNS market
The instant messaging app Line is already dominating the lives of young smartphone users in Japan and has spread rapidly elsewhere in the world, but its developer is eyeing even more aggressive growth.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 13, 2012
2012: The year in social media in Japan
The year in social media in Japan. Hint: Line.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 5, 2012
Today's J-blip: Line's Birzzle
Angry Birds + Bejeweled + Tetris + a free sticker? We have a winner.
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2011
To the brink of worst case
More than six months since the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant started, people not directly affected by it appear to be gradually losing their acute concern about the crisis.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Trump calls the U.S.-Japan alliance ‘one-sided.’ Tokyo says otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday in Washington.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
China executes man over Japanese school bus stop murder
The bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, where a Japanese mother, her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked in June 2024
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.

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