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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
NEW YORK (AP) While Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the next incarnation of Windows on Oct. 22, Apple Inc. cut ahead in line by launching a new version of its operating system for Mac computers last Friday. Apple’s new Snow Leopard software isn’t as ...
Facebook recently made changes to its service agreement in order to make members’ data more accessible to other computer users. Amuse, Inc. announced last week that hackers stole credit-card information from about 150,000 clients. Hackers broke into the social network Twitter’s system and stole ...
NEW YORK (AP) Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school, say $40 is just too much to fork out for a Nintendo Wii game they may not enjoy. They haven’t bought one since last fall, when they picked up “Star ...
BOSTON (AP) When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message. Mao thought the error — just after the first anniversary of a crackdown on Tibetan protesters in China — ...
For a long time, the Japanese publishing industry was in the dark about the Google Book Search Library project, the ambitious endeavor by the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant to create a vast online library by scanning millions of books. Google announced the start ...
Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3GS, the newest in the iPhone series, will debut on June 26, plunging into Japan’s cell-phone market, where competition is getting more intense as phone carriers release impressive summer 2009 lineups. For example, Taiwanese electronics maker HTC Co. is providing a ...
Early last month, Mixi CEO Kenji Kasahara came under intense pressure. That was on the day that his company, Japan’s biggest social-networking operator, announced its financial results and forecast for the year: Its profit would fall by 15 percent from the previous year, the ...
On April 17, the district court of Stockholm issued its verdict in the copyright infringement case of the torrent tracking Web site The Pirate Bay, whose managers and another associate were accused of facilitating the illegal downloading of music, movie and video-game files. The ...
The Web has been praised for taking publishing to new heights, but it’s also pioneered new ways for people to connect and reconnect. In Facebook, Mixi, MySpace and hundreds of other large and small online communities, we’re learning new modes of socialization. And, as ...
While Japan is a technological powerhouse, it is usually a follower and not a pioneer. Some of the best PCs in the world are manufactured by Japanese firms, but the PC itself was invented by Apple and IBM, both U.S. companies. The same holds ...
NEW YORK (AP) W hen Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father’s gaming friends know that he hadn’t just decided to desert them. ...
Actress Kristen Kreuk is upfront about not being a gamer. “I’ve only played ‘Street Fighter’ once,” she tells The Japan Times while visiting Tokyo to promote the movie “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.” “Growing up, I did watch my friends play it.” Chun-Li ...