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EDITORIALS
May 2, 2008

Going back to school online

As the new school year started this April, one change in education stood out. Some universities in Japan have started to offer lectures over the Internet, on their Web sites, for free!
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2006

Napster music service goes online in Japan

Internet music download company Napster launched a Japanese service Tuesday aimed at tapping a growing market, the company said.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2006

Database of 2,000 clinics that help smokers quit goes online

An online database of about 2,000 medical institutions that accept health insurance for a course of nonsmoking treatment has been made available by the Japanese Society for Tobacco Control, the group's officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Aug 19, 2006

Rakuten enjoys 37% surge in profit

Rakuten Inc. reported Friday that its group net profit rose 37.1 percent to 7.1 billion yen in the first half of the year, thanks to strong sales at its online brokerage.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2006

Softbank plans online university

Softbank Corp. said Friday the education ministry has accepted its application to set up a four-year, all-online college.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2006

Top broadcasters seek to go online

Five Tokyo-based television broadcasters and four advertisement agencies are planning to launch a new company in April to show TV programs online, industry sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2006

'Spyware' developer arrested over online theft

Police said Thursday they have arrested the developer of a "spyware" program that was used in the theft of 216,000 yen from a Japan Net Bank account last year.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 9, 2005

Armchair critics get own online film festival

Fancy being the next Pauline Kael or Roger Ebert? International short film festival, Con-Can Movie Festival, is giving the perfect opportunity to budding film critics, and of course regular movie fans, by inviting the public to view films submitted by directors from all over the world. The films, all...
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

Yahoo, Honda, Canon join to fight online piracy

Yahoo Japan Corp. and other Internet auctioneers joined Thursday with intellectual property rights holders, including Honda Motor Co. and Canon Inc., to set up a group to stem online trade in illegally copied and counterfeit items.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2005

NPA goes online to curb Net crime

The National Police Agency launched a Web site Thursday that will offer automatic answers to questions about Internet-related crimes, including online auction fraud, fraudulent online billing and so-called phishing.
COMMUNITY
Jun 12, 2004

Natural Healing Center valuable online resource

There is a misleading blonde blue-eyed softness about Sascha Hewitt. Actually she is as strong as on ox, which she ably demonstrates by lugging three heavy bags from her home in Tokyo's Shimo-Meguro to where we meet in Shibuya.
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2004

Individual traders boost earnings of online brokerages

Online brokerages' earnings surged in fiscal 2003 due to active trading by individual investors during the recent stock market rally.
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2004

Yahoo to launch online insurance

Leading Internet portal operator Yahoo Japan Corp. said Thursday it will launch an online insurance business in Japan through an alliance with major U.S. insurance broker Aon Corp.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2004

Online symposium to address peace

The Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and The Japan Times will open the Fourth e-Symposium on Conflict Prevention on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2003

Online shoppers find 'bargain' PC in Web snafu

Marubeni Corp. will sell some 1,500 personal computers at a discount of 90 percent after posting the wrong price on its online shopping site.
BUSINESS
Apr 18, 2003

METI eyes online credit market

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will create an online credit market as early as in 2004 to give small and midsize firms more ways to procure funds, METI officials said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2003

Glitch hits Yahoo's online payments

A glitch caused Yahoo Japan Corp.'s online payment service to be off-line for about 16 hours beginning Sunday evening, a company official said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2002

Online auction bill nears fruition

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday aimed at forcing operators of Internet auction sites to notify authorities of their dealings.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2002

'Shinkin' banks get national network back online

The nationwide online network for "shinkin" credit, savings and loans banks resumed normal operations at 8 a.m. Thursday after a computer problem that crippled the system the previous day was fixed, a shinkin bank information center said.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2002

Online music trade riles labels

The battle between online music-swapping service providers and the Japanese music industry is intensifying, with the industry vowing to crack down on what it calls illegal sharing of digital copies of music.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2001

Ministry holds first online tender for public works project

The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Tuesday staged the first online tender for a public works project in the nation's history.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 29, 2001

Online: Buddhist perspective on the new holy war

David Loy is a professor of philosophy and religion in the faculty of international studies at Bunkyo University in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is American, and proud to be so. He is also a practicing Zen Buddhist.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2001

Disney, T&E in online games tieup

The Disney group of the United States and T&E Soft Inc., a Nagoya-based developer of computer games, have reached a nonexclusive agreement to develop online Disney-branded games for broadband networks, the two firms announced Monday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Jan 3, 2001

New financial settlements system to go online Thursday

The Bank of Japan confirmed Tuesday that it will introduce a real-time gross settlements system Thursday as scheduled as all preparations for the changeover are on track.

Longform

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