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CYBERIA

LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 16, 2000
Real convenience
The big Net play in Japan these days is convenience stores. Name your neighborhood favorite and you can rest assured it has just rolled out some new e-commerce business scheme.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Feb 9, 2000
Enemy of the corporate state
A few months ago while shopping for an iMac DV, I faced a dilemma. It wasn't the matter of sticking with Apple, but about whether I should buy it locally. Aside from issues of availability, price and OS language, there was the DVD bugaboo.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 26, 2000
Memories can't wait
This year's New Year's cleaning was quick: Pull out the file of Y2K clippings and dump all the doom and gloom in the trash with nary a backward glance. That got me digging through other files, and I spent a merry half hour reliving the Internet's infancy: the prospect of genuinely mobile computing (shades of i-Mode), the revolutionary notion of fixed access fees and -- gasp -- free PCs, warnings that businesses had to embrace e-commerce or die. With prodigious mental effort, I can even remember life before there was the Web, a veritable digital Precambrian era.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 19, 2000
Space on the range
When the deliciously innovative iMacs were unveiled last year there was a collective gasp: What?! No floppy drive? How do I transfer files?
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Jan 12, 2000
We have a future
Another megamerger, another Internet world-eating conglomerate emerges. Apart from its size, the AOL-Time/Warner deal is a big deal: The marriage of AOL and Time Warner matters (if it goes throtwo reasons. First, it combines one of the biggest Net presences with a broadband delivery systefinally makes real the prospect of a fat pipe in every home.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 29, 1999
An open ethOS
The latest tale of cyber-riches involves the Linux crowd. A recent string of IPOs earned shareholders obscene amounts of money. Red Hat, a distributor of the Linux operating system, is worth about $15 billion. VA Linux, a company that sells computers that use Linux, made history: Its shares leaped 700 percent, making the company worth about $10 billion. Not bad for a firm with 153 employees, $17 million in sales and about $3.3 million in gross profits
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 22, 1999
The accidental ambassador
Stop me if you've heard this one: A mustachioed fun-loving Turkish guy throws up a personal Web page that, in simple, bad English, depicts him as a regular Renaissance stud muffin, who loves to travel, plays numerous instruments, is single, and -- the kicker -- he states, "I like sex." He offers a picture of himself in a tight red Speedo bathing suit and headlines his page "I KISS YOU!!!!!!" "I like to be friendship from different country," he says on his page, and I quote. "Who is want to come Turkey I can invitate ... She can stay my home ..."
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 15, 1999
Follow the money
Japan's back. After nearly a decade of economic stagnation, this country is getting its act together.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 8, 1999
May we help you?
They say this might be the year that online Christmas sales in the U.S. actually live up to past promises of e-commerce's ascendancy. Hurrahs could be heard when it was reported that online transactions over Thanksgiving were up 10-fold (and groans could be heard as servers started overloading with the traffic). On the other, more sober hand, it's been pointed out that online vendors will get only 10 percent of the $185 billion retail pie. Still, it's a start.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Dec 1, 1999
The top of the world
Tengboche Monastery is the oldest Buddhist monastery in Nepal. Founded in 1916 by Lama Gulu, the building itself has been destroyed and rebuilt twice. Today it is home to 50 monks and hosts about 22,000 visitors each year
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 24, 1999
Web's blog, stardate 1999
The Internet could be blamed for empowering armies of blowhards, chatterboxes and gas bags. While you probably have no shortage of these around you in the real world, you are just as likely to bump into them online, boasting, preaching, whining, ranting, blathering on about whatever has crossed their radars. With the promise of a massive audience, the Internet fosters such logorrhea
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 17, 1999
A Web DJ saved my life
Let's look at the headlines from Net music news. Maestro, hit the rewind:
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 10, 1999
A trans-Pacific e-channel
The name, us-style.com, hints at the focus: e-commerce with an American twist. The use of "US" suggests that the target audience considers place of origin important.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Nov 3, 1999
Marketing witchcraft
"The Blair Witch Project," which will finally appear at a theater near you this month, is one of the scariest movies of the '90s.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 27, 1999
Eyes on the storm
You don't have to be the wonky sort to want to keep tabs on what is going on in Northeast Asia. Yes, diplomacy can be tedious -- although North Korean rhetoric does liven things up a good bit -- but most Japan Times readers live in Japan and that puts them within range of those missiles ostensibly threatening the country. Those storms in the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea blow uncomfortably close to home. Wanting to be informed doesn't seem like morbid curiosity to me; I'd call it healthy.
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 20, 1999
The comfort of strangers
"Susunu Denpa Shonen," which airs every Sunday night on NTV, has become a bona fide phenomenon partly by tweaking noses and partly by joining hands -- call it cynicism cut with altruism
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 13, 1999
Not just for kids anymore
I was never much of a video-game player, although I did have a brief infatuation with Missile Command. (It ended when a pal proceeded to stomp me every time we went head to head.) I must be one of the few: Video games are reckoned to be a $20 billion-a-year industry and revenues now outpace movie-ticket sales
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 6, 1999
The future is in the air
I have written and read e-mail during my commute, beamed my virtual meishi to new acquaintances, played cards in taxis, and once in a shameless display of computing on my feet I consulted a database of Tokyo restaurants, which I had downloaded from www.bento.com, and located a great Indonesian joint in five minutes, ready and able to feed a party of 10
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Sep 22, 1999
Where the women are
No presses need to be stopped to inform you of the growing number of women on the Internet in Japan. And the sizes of our headlines won't increase to tell you that number will continue to rise steadily, if not dramatically, over the next few years
LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Sep 15, 1999
The family that surfs together ...
There is something mildly unsettling about the cyberpolice's fixation with child pornography. At the Internet Content Summit, held last week in Munich and hosted by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, kiddie porn was repeatedly denounced by participants. To judge from the general tone of the comments, it embodied the ultimate evolution of evil.
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.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
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.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
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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