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Tokyo-based IT company Milog is known for providing Android-based smartphone apps that let users share information about the apps installed on their phones and rank them by popularity. This small startup, established in 2009, has been supported by notable companies, including receiving a ¥310 million joint-investment from information and job-placement agency Recruit and Japan’s second largest Inte
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| Share Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 Seoul cites war sex slaves at U.N. human rights panel Kyodo NEW YORK — South Korea on Tuesday mentioned the issue of "comfort women," a euphemism referring to Korean women who were forced to provide sexual services for Japanese soldiers during the war, at a human rights panel session of the U.N. General Assembly, calling on the United Nations and all of its members
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. Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s recent interviews with mass media serve as a reminder of its serious nature. The interviews show that a critical moment in the unfolding drama came when Tep
| Share Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 Leukemia claims Tepco worker By MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer A man in his 40s who worked for a week in August at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s radiation-leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has died of acute leukemia, but it was not caused by exposure to fallout, Tepco said Tuesday. The man, whose name Tepco withheld to protect his privacy, had external radiation e
| Share Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 TECH_JAPAN WEB Why do Japanese advertisers suggest Internet-search keywords? By AKKY AKIMOTO It seems that everywhere you look in Japan these days, printed advertising has Internet-style "search buttons" somewhere in the design, with Japanese text inside a box indicating the term to be searched. And many TV commercials end with a short phrase "such and such de ken
W ith his winning of the prestigious Alpha Blogger Awards 2010, Tokyo-based cartoonist Junichi Inoue is now recognized as one of the most influential Japanese bloggers. His blog carries comic strips of amusing episodes about a new life with his young, Chinese wife, Yue, who is in her mid-20s and struggling with cultural and language difficulties in Tokyo. Hits on the website have risen sharply, es
High-handed remarks by newly appointed Tohoku reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto rocked the political world Monday, inflaming the opposition and inflicting another headache upon the ailing Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Opposition lawmakers said they might call on Matsumoto to resign after he chastized the governors of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, and also seemed to threaten reporters on
Ssecond of Two Parts On one evening in March, a producer at NHK appeared on an online program that was being streamed live over the Internet by Nico Nico Douga to speak about her struggles navigating Japan’s changing media scene. “To be honest, we’ve been struggling and thinking hard about what kinds of programs we should make” because TV’s role has changed with the rise of the Internet and social
Share | Friday, June 3, 2011 Decade of fine tuning yields gold for capsule Perfume producer Nakata looks to '80s TV adverts for inspiration By IAN MARTIN Special to The Japan Times "I see capsule as a J-pop group, but then again, I don't think J-pop should be made into a particular genre with its own rules," says Yasutaka Nakata of electro unit capsule and producer of idol sensations Perfume. "T
When you get down to it, the Nico Nico Douga website is just a combination of videos and text comments about them. But this simple amalgamation has created a cultural phenomenon that has spread like wildfire among Japanese Internet users — especially the young. In the past five years, Nico Nico Douga, operated by Tokyo-based Dwango Co., has become one of the leading online video-sharing platforms
Share | Thursday, May 26, 2011 Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard Bloomberg The Atomic Energy Society of Japan is discussing a plan to make the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station. Building a repository would cost several trillion yen, Muneo Morokuzu, a professor of energy and environmental public policy at the University
Share | Thursday, May 19, 2011 Online orders: Maltine Records website acts as the main vehicle for distributing the label's music. Right: Tomohiro "Tomad" Konuta created Maltine with friend Syem (not pictured) in 2005. Online Maltine learns old-school tricks By PATRICK ST. MICHEL Special to The Japan Times Tomohiro Konuta didn't have lofty ambitions when he and his friend Syem started the online
Share | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 THE ZEIT GIST From raw emotion to relief: 'Quakebook' What started as the "Quakebook," now titled "2:46" after the time the earthquake hit, originated in a shower in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, a week after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the Pacific coast of northern Honshu. A longtime British resident of Japan, who blogs as Our Man in Abiko, trying to think of
Share | Friday, March 25, 2011 Despair engulfs Pakistani asylum seekers Refugee family victim of Japan's politicized immigration policies? By DAVID McNEILL Special to The Japan Times In a ramshackle Yokohama house smelling of damp and rotting wood, Nasir Qadri and his family await their fate. The Pakistani national, his wife, Shaheena, and their five children are asylum seekers who arrived in Jap
OSAKA — Some foreign media coverage of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been so extreme it has fanned fears of a deadly radiation cloud descending on Tokyo and turning residents into walking zombies, before drifting across the oceans to menace the United States and Ireland. According to another “fact,” authorities have been warning those in a position to leave Tokyo to fle
When the earthquake hit northern Japan on Friday, voice calls from mobile phones became immediately unavailable in order to leave room for emergency calls. However, in the Kanto area, mobile Internet connection was mostly kept on, and many people turned to the Web to exchange information. On Japan’s main social networking site, mixi, some communities were set up soon after the quake to keep people
Kodansha International Ltd., a leading English-language publisher of translated books on Japan, is closing down by the end of April, sources said Thursday. Contacted by The Japan Times, company President Koji Hirota confirmed that the company was folding but declined to give details, saying it was the decision of the parent company, Kodansha Ltd. The head of PR for Kodansha Ltd., one of the larges
Flipping through a copy of a recently obtained Korean history textbook used in pro-Pyongyang junior high schools in Japan, journalist Ryo Hagiwara points his finger to a section describing how North Korea’s founding father, Kim Il Sung, and his Korean People’s Revolutionary Army defeated the Japanese occupation forces in 1945 and drove them off the Korean Peninsula. “Well, this reads as if Kim and
Like a giant dose of salts to a bloated and constipated patient, “Cablegate” has scoured its way through the post-9/11 United States empire, exposing its internal workings to merciless scrutiny: In Iraq, U.S. forces and their Iraqi subordinates kill civilians and journalists while their commanders turn a blind eye to sickening acts of torture and murder; in Pakistan, U.S. special forces patrol “se
Last year saw many changes for Japanese Internet users as people began to shift from Japanese social networks to international ones, and from regular cellphones to smart phones. The international influence was felt in other web-based areas too. So what can we expect for 2011? Twitter: The 2010 results for Yahoo! Japan’s annual search rankings were not that different from those in 2009. But one buz
The crowd bristles with excitement as the first DJ of the night winds down his set. An air of anticipation sets in around the room. As the next DJ enters the booth with his CD booklet in hand, the throng begins to swarm the tiny floor, no larger than your grandmother’s basement. Four Tet is about to hit the decks — and tens of thousands of people are watching. Physically, however, there are only 5
The Foreign Ministry released a report Monday effectively acknowledging that Japan discussed the possibility of going nuclear with West Germany in 1969, despite issuing a key declaration in 1967 stating that it opposed the production, possession and presence of nuclear weapons. The report said that according to diplomatic papers from West Germany, Foreign Ministry officials met with their West Ger
Last month I attended an international lecture by one of Japanology’s senior scholars. I’ll call him Dr. Frink. Decorated by the Japanese government for his contributions to the field, he talked about Japan as a “unique” state that never really changes, even as it slips to third place behind China’s economy. One reason he gave for this was that “Japan is still the most homogeneous society in the w
On the face of it, the lineup for this year’s Fuji Rock Festival has not been kind to Japanese artists, with representation on the higher profile stages confined to such stalwarts as melodic punk rocker Ken Yokoyama and dance duo Boom Boom Satellites. The lack of any real challenge to these oldies’ dominance is either an indictment of the ambition of the younger generation of musicians, or more li
In July, the number of active users on social networking site Facebook worldwide surpassed 500 million. More than 60 percent of Internet users in the United States have signed up with the site, and its presence has reached into almost every country on Earth. You might think that Facebook is taking over the world . . . if you speak English. There are, however, a few regions where Facebook has not b
Japan may be on a slow decline as far as being a global economic force, but the “soft power” of its modern entertainment genres, from manga to “anime,” has global appeal, especially among young people. Why and how did this entertainment media thrive? How popular is it overseas? Following are basic questions and answers regarding anime, as animation has come to be known: Where does anime trace its
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