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The Apple App Store app on an iPhone on June 25, 2024
BUSINESS / Tech
May 1, 2025
Apple must halt non-app store sales commissions, judge says
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sided Wednesday with Fortnite maker Epic Games?over its allegation that the iPhone maker failed to comply with a court order.
A police officer stands guard on April 1 at the home of Masaki Eguchi in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, where the body of Waka Kato had been found in a closet.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2025
Aichi man rearrested, newly charged with murder of high school girl
According to investigative sources, the incident took place after the two got into a quarrel over ¡°Fortnite,¡± a popular online battle royale video game.
The Google campus in Mountain View, California, on May 2
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2024
Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block app rivals
Epic says it will also raise its competition concerns with regulators in the EU
An attendee plays Fortnite, made by Epic Games, during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in 2019.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2023
Legal defeat for Google threatens $200 billion app store industry
Until now, Google and Apple have charged commissions of as much as 30% to software developers who typically have had few other options.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, exits federal court in Washington on Oct. 30.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2023
Google¡¯s app store strategy bad for everyone, Epic says in court
Moves by Alphabet to thwart competition hurt developers and raise prices for consumers, the games firm said in opening statements.
Fortnite is estimated to be played by over 400 million people worldwide.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2023
Fortnite developer fails to report ?30 billion in revenue in Japan
The problem, which lasted for three years to December 2020, was uncovered in an investigation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 25, 2023
Apple app store policies upheld by court in antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games
Apple won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store¡¯s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Apr 21, 2023
Use video games to learn Japanese and connect with your children
What are your kids talking about when they bring up Minecraft, Fortnite or Pokemon? Take an interest in their games and learn some new Japanese terms in the process.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 4, 2021
Apple users are ¡®trapped¡¯ in App Store, Epic says at trial
Meanwhile, the iPhone maker accuses the creator of Fortnite of a ¡®fundamental assault¡¯ on a business model that has enriched millions of developers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 25, 2020
Apple defeats Epic Games¡¯ effort to restore Fortnite on App Store
The fight blew up Aug. 13 when Epic told customers it would begin offering a discounted direct purchase plan for items in Fortnite, and Apple then removed the game app.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2020
Apple threatens to block Epic¡¯s Unreal Engine in app store commission dispute
Under Apple¡¯s rules, games must bill subscriptions and purchases through Apple¡¯s own billing system, which charges a 30 percent fee.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2020
Fortnite maker sues Apple and Google over app store dispute
The disagreement stems from a longstanding Apple App Store rule saying most apps must offer billing through Apple and pay the company 30 percent of revenue.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
May 17, 2020
NHL players organize charity Fortnite tournament
The National Hockey League Players' Association is hosting a Fortnite tournament for charity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2019
U.S. teen wins $3 million at Fortnite World Cup esports tournament
American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $3 million on Sunday after taking the top prize in an esports tournament in New York for the popular online video game Fortnite.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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