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SUMO
Sep 9, 2019
Sumo 101: Rikishi & social media
At first glance, sumo can seem intransigently stuck in the past.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Oct 14, 2018
Ugrading home entertainment
Summer¡¯s over, it¡¯s time for more home activities — gaming, movies, music, even practicing sports in the yard. Here¡¯s a few gadgets to help you enjoy your ¡®me-time.¡¯
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jan 14, 2018
Gadgets that help to make it easy
Mobile shopping
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Sep 17, 2017
New ways to find your voice
Sing on key with Yamaha
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
May 14, 2017
Today¡¯s modern home helpers
Robotic window wiping
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 17, 2017
¡®Kohei Kobayashi ¡Á Kohei Takahashi: Work on Five Hypotheses to Cut Off...¡¯
Jan. 14-April 2
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 5, 2016
Facebook Japan launches social sharing of streamed music
Facebook Japan has launched a music streaming function, Music Stories, on the Japanese version of its social networking platform.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 30, 2016
Facebook rolls out suicide alert system for users in Japan
The tool offers a way for those in despair to be noticed and given a sympathetic ear.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 28, 2016
Line shoots for ?112 billion IPO amid market tumult
Line Corp., Â鶹´«Ã½ most popular mobile-messaging service, and its owners are aiming to raise as much as ?112 billion in what could become the biggest technology initial public offering globally this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 17, 2015
Perceived dangers posed by selfie sticks prompt bans at some tourist venues
As selfie sticks become popular among young people and foreign visitors, more tourist facilities in the Chubu region are banning them over the apparent dangers they can pose.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2014
Line applies to TSE for IPO that could see value exceed ?1 trillion
Line Corp., operator of Â鶹´«Ã½ most popular mobile messaging service, has submitted an application for an initial public offering to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, sources said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 9, 2014
China¡¯s hottest app inspired by devotion to Japanese manga
Erick Guo left Asia¡¯s largest Internet company last year to build a team of artists and engineers who could create smartphone applications inspired by Japanese manga.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 4, 2014
SNS apps blocked amid massive democracy rally in Hong Kong
Line and other popular messaging apps are apparently being blocked in China to censor a pro-democracy rally.
JAPAN
Apr 17, 2014
Tourism authorities eye travelers¡¯ tweets to fine-tune promotions
Japan is thinking of using Twitter, cellphone and GPS data to scope out tourists¡¯ wants and needs ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2014
Students in Aichi city to be banned from using cellphones after 9 p.m.
Hoping to minimize the negative effects that smartphones can have on children, students in elementary and junior high schools in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, will be banned from using cellphones after 9 p.m.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jun 11, 2013
Japan by the numbers (06.11.13)
Who would read every book in a series of 70? One in four Japanese people in their 20s, according to one poll. There¡¯s more where that came from.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2013
Facebook playing catch-up a year after flawed IPO
After a market debut marred by technical glitches and a deep dive in the company¡¯s stock price, Facebook has spent the past year focused on its biggest weaknesses: how to make money and keep its more than 1 billion users tethered to the social network.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 4, 2011
Japan Inc. puts on its social game face
Big corps are getting playful and social while testing the waters of the big Facebook pond.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 26, 2010
Japan by the numbers (11.26.10)
Find out the numbers behind the stress of everyday life in Japan. Have you ticked off everything on YOUR 2010 to-do list?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 24, 2010
Japan by the numbers (09.24.10)
Raise your hand if you support the DPJ, prefer the convenience of Haneda, and don¡¯t mind sharing your problems online.
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¡¯

Longform

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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