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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 8, 2021
The need to digitalize Japanese society as a whole
Japan must take action to ensure its future digital agency doesn¡¯t get lost under the rest of the government¡¯s apparatus.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 7, 2021
How Japan can become a data powerhouse
The country¡¯s new digital agency must take a lead in forming Â鶹´«Ã½ data infrastructure and global data rule-making, while benefiting the people.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 5, 2021
The battle to modernize Japan
In a country of fax machines and fragmented central administration, Suga¡¯s vision of a digital agency looks hard to achieve.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 16, 2020
A digital agency would crown Â鶹´«Ã½ IT strategy
Prime Minister Suga aims to put his own stamp on policy by erasing the government¡¯s lag in digitization.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 23, 2019
Phone firms to strike back against robocallers in deal with all 50 U.S. states
AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and 10 other large phone companies have struck an agreement with 51 attorneys general to enact technology to block robocalls before they reach consumers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 2, 2015
North Korean author of ¡®The Girl with Seven Names¡¯ memoir still feels hunted
The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors like her have used for years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 20, 2014
$73 billion payoff for SoftBank¡¯s ventures fuels push into Japan startups
Â鶹´«Ã½ biggest companies have a case of SoftBank envy, and that¡¯s good for entrepreneurs like 23-year-old Takumi Shimizu.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2013
BlackBerry takeover bid collapses, prompting management shakeup
BlackBerry Ltd. bidder Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. walked away from a $4.7 billion takeover plan, sending the stock plunging as the company attempts to recover with a management shakeup and $1 billion bond deal.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2013
Communication apps put employees¡¯ personal devices to work
A handful of tech companies are betting that smartphones will eventually serve a different role in the workplace than they do outside.
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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