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BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2001

20% of telephone calls go mobile

Calls between mobile phones accounted for 20.5 percent of all telephone usage in Japan in fiscal 2000, up from 15 percent a year earlier, the telecommunications ministry said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 12, 2001

Web, mobile-based trading is seen to be catching fire

The surge in Web surfers is brightening prospects for online stock trading.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2000

Mobile phones big among high schoolers: poll

Roughly 60 percent of Japanese high school students have mobile phones and half of them exchange 10 or more e-mail messages a day using their phones, according to a recent 1999 poll on youth trends by the Management and Coordination Agency.
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2000

Matsushita to tie up with Ericsson on mobile phones

OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will tie up with LM Ericsson of Sweden in an attempt to cash in on the mobile phone business in Europe, Matsushita officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 1998

Number of mobile computer users ready to rise

In the 2000 business year, the number of users of mobile computers in Japan , excluding voice-service users, will be 20 times what it is in the current business year and is likely to total 13.63 million people, an industry group reported Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2021

In setback for Apple, EU plans one mobile charging port for all

The move has been more than 10 years in the making, with the European Union executive touting environmental benefits and savings for users.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 3, 2021

Twin sisters score Japan’s hottest IPO by making mobile games for women

To the growing list of things that make gaming startup Coly Inc. unusual, it can add one of the best market debuts in recent Japanese history.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2021

Will mobile carriers' price cuts boost smaller rivals or doom them?

Budget SIM providers face an uphill battle in differentiating themselves from the likes of NTT Docomo and SoftBank based on price and innovative services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 6, 2021

NYSE eyes reverting to original plan to delist major Chinese firms

The possibility that firms will be delisted means financial markets are likely to face further disruptions from Trump's crackdown on Chinese companies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 5, 2021

NYSE scraps plan to delist Chinese telecom firms in ‘bizarre’ U-turn

A lack of clarity on why the exchange changed course left investors speculating over whether the move is something with broader geopolitical implications.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 21, 2019

Huawei mobile users ponder switching brand after Google news

Time to abandon the Huawei phone? That was what some owners asked after U.S. tech giant Google said it would suspend its business with China's top mobile maker, threatening future access to Gmail, YouTube and Chrome.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 14, 2019

Trump losing his fight to ban Huawei equipment from global mobile networks

U.S. President Donald Trump's worldwide campaign to blackball Huawei Technologies Co. is looking like a failure.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 14, 2019

Pierced by an arrow, mobile phone dies saving Australian man

An Australian had a lucky escape while confronting a man armed with a bow outside his home — an arrow shot at him merely pierced his mobile phone as he took photos of the incident, Australian police said on Thursday.
BUSINESS
May 17, 2016

Japan government to press mobile carriers on prices as profits soar

The government plans to step up pressure on the country's largest mobile-phone carriers to offer cheaper plans as surging profits show they have room to reduce costs for customers, an official at the communications ministry said.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2016

ICTs, broadband key to sustainable development

To achieve global connectivity for all people and communities, governments and industry need to come together in ever more innovative public-private partnerships.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 13, 2016

North Korean mobile ballistic missile called top threat by U.S.

North Korea continues to develop a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that "would likely be capable of reaching much of the continental United States," the Pentagon said in a new report to Congress on the secretive regime's military capabilities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 7, 2015

Sharp melds a robot and mobile phone to create the RoBoHoN

Sharp Corp. has introduced a new mobile phone combined with a humanoid robot.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Aug 16, 2024

Japan Times revamps iOS mobile app

This week we released a major upgrade of our mobile app.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Aug 16, 2024

Japan Times revamps Android mobile app

This week we released a major upgrade of our mobile app.
Bicycle riders will be fined for minor traffic violations starting on April 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 18, 2025

Japan to fine riders ¥12,000 for using mobile phones while cycling

Fines between ¥3,000 ($20) and ¥12,000 will be imposed for 113 types of traffic violations.

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