Now or NaverAt home, South Korea’s biggest web portal has thrashed Yahoo and kept Google at bay. Now its owner plans to conquer the world with its messaging service DOWN jackets are typically stuffed with duck, not chicken, feathers. Why? “Ask Naver”. So ran an ad in 2003 for a South Korean web portal of that name featuring an innovative, crowdsourced question-and-answer service. In spite of such
IT SEEMS hard to credit that Toshio Tamogami, a 65-year-old former chief of Japan’s air force sacked in 2008 for airing weirdly revisionist views about history, is still a man to reckon with. Yet his campaign for Tokyo’s forthcoming governor’s election has deepened a row over Japan’s giant public broadcaster, NHK. Late last year Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, approved four new appointments to NHK
PUBLIC demonstrations in Japan are some of the free world’s most orderly and also some of the most heavily policed. On November 26th, as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pushed a controversial secrecy bill through the lower house of the Diet, your correspondent walked by a line of protesters sitting calmly outside the building, holding signs against the proposed law. The nearest thing to
Face-offChina’s new air-defence zone suggests a worrying new approach in the region THE announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea must notify Chinese authorities in advance and follow instructions from its air-traffic controllers. America’s respons
Cracked credibilityTo be safe, the internet needs reliable encryption. But the standards, software and hardware it uses are vulnerable INTELLIGENCE agencies exist to steal secrets, and necessarily break other countries’ laws to do so. Much of the brouhaha around the disclosures by Edward Snowden, a fugitive systems administrator from America’s National Security Agency now living in Russia, misses
Time to get startedShinzo Abe is giving new hope to Japan’s unappreciated entrepreneurs “IT BEGINS from now,” tweeted Takafumi Horie, the former boss of Livedoor, an internet firm, two months after emerging from prison this spring. Mr Horie is involved in no fewer than 30 new companies, including a space-tourism venture. If any of them grow to be big, Mr Horie, who was convicted of fraud in 2011,
How did a Japanese anime film set a Twitter record?Because of a tradition that fans all tweet a single word at a particular moment STUDIO Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio renowned for its hugely successful anime films, the best known of which is “Spirited Away”, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which won the Oscar for best animated feature in 2003. Earlier this month the studio won an accolade of
Not so superThe “third arrow” of reform has fallen well short of its target; time for Shinzo Abe to rethink EARLIER this year Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, unveiled the first two “arrows” of his three-point economic plan—monetary easing and fiscal stimulus—and hinted at structural reforms to come. Japan’s stockmarket soared by 80% in six months. Mr Abe’s approval rating soared, too. Then, af
The digital arms tradeThe market for software that helps hackers penetrate computer systems IT IS a type of software sometimes described as “absolute power” or “God”. Small wonder its sales are growing. Packets of computer code, known as “exploits”, allow hackers to infiltrate or even control computers running software in which a design flaw, called a “vulnerability”, has been discovered. Criminal
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