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CELLPHONES

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 21, 2015
SoftBank veers from iPhone in shift to embrace all mobile devices
Since the iPhone debuted in Japan in 2008, SoftBank Mobile Corp. has been heavily promoting Apple smartphones, driving the growth of the telecom giant led by billionaire Masayoshi Son ever higher.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 21, 2015
Line said to prepare dual listing before Japan Post IPO
Line Corp., operator of Japan's most popular mobile-messaging service, is preparing for a dual listing in Tokyo and New York before Japan Post Holdings Co.'s initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 1, 2015
Japan's mobile phone carriers to begin scrapping SIM locks starting Friday
Mobile phone service operators will be required to remove carrier-specific restrictions, or SIM locks, on handsets starting Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 2, 2015
Police to get easier access to mobile GPS data for criminal probes
The central government plans to revise its privacy protection guidelines to allow police to more easily access GPS data from mobile phones during criminal investigations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2015
Vaio Phone to offer SIM-free option in 'wide open' market
Japan Communications Inc. unveiled on Thursday a new smartphone designed in collaboration with Vaio Corp. to energize the market for SIM-free smartphones in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 3, 2015
Mobile industry tiptoes toward 5G
Running short of dramatically new phone designs, leaders of the world's wireless industry agree their next big idea is 5G, shorthand for the fifth generation of networks they expect to have up and running by 2020.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2015
NTT Docomo to hang up on expats in U.S. in 2016
NTT Docomo Inc. is set to terminate its mobile phone service for Japanese people in the United States next year in a move that would mark the effective withdrawal of Japan's largest mobile carrier from the giant market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2014
Messaging firm Line to offer pay, taxi, food delivery services
Smartphone messaging service Line Corp. said Thursday it will launch a payment service in coming months as it seeks to play a more fundamental role in customers' lives.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2014
New guidelines ease restrictions on cellphone use at hospitals
New guidelines permit mobile phone use in hospital waiting rooms and patients' private rooms but still ban the devices from operating rooms and laboratories.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2014
Japan to ease smartphone curbs on commercial flights in September
The transport ministry said Thursday it will start relaxing restrictions on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings from Sept. 1 so travelers can listen to music or play games on their own devices while in flight.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2014
Docomo takes hit in first quarter but slows loss of customers
NTT Docomo Inc. said Friday that sales and profits dropped in the first quarter compared with the previous year, on slumping voice call revenue and discounts for two-year contracts.
WORLD
Jul 7, 2014
U.S. tightens security on electronics at overseas airports
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on U.S.-bound planes at some overseas airports if the devices are not charged up, the agency said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 6, 2014
Son's bid for T-Mobile faces huge antitrust hurdle
Masayoshi Son, head of SoftBank Corp. and Sprint Corp., won't be able to ride the regulatory coattails of pending U.S. telecommunications deals if he decides to buy T-Mobile US Inc.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 2, 2014
Y!mobile to target smartphone users
Yahoo Japan prepares to launch a cellphone carrier in June that could pit it against parent SoftBank in the hunt for smartphone users.
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2014
Students in Aichi city to be banned from using cellphones after 9 p.m.
Hoping to minimize the negative effects that smartphones can have on children, students in elementary and junior high schools in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, will be banned from using cellphones after 9 p.m.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 12, 2013
FCC faces outcry over allowing cellphone calls during flights
It didn't take long for Tom Wheeler, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to face controversy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2013
'No privacy worries' as Japan Tourism Authority tracks tourists via 'meta data'
Dismissing privacy concerns, the Japan Tourism Authority is planning to use location data from cellphones to track tourists and discover popular spots in the interest of developing tourism resources.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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