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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 9, 2013
Google, local governments to share evacuation info
Google Japan Inc. has reached an agreement with seven regional governments to work together to provide evacuation information to residents.
LIFE / Digital
Mar 6, 2013
Not even Google will be around forever
Some years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitize all of the world's printed books, was getting under way, the two cofounders of Google were having a meeting with the librarian of one of the universities that had signed up for the plan. At one point in the conversation, the Google boys noticed that their collaborator had suddenly gone rather quiet. One of them asked him what was the matter. "Well", he replied, "I'm wondering what happens to all this stuff when Google no longer exists." Recounting the conversation to me later, he said: "I've never seen two young people looking so stunned: the idea that Google might not exist one day had never crossed their minds."
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Feb 27, 2013
Glass may look geeky, but you have to applaud Google's vision
A few weeks ago, the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, spent four days in Cambridge as the Humanitas visiting professor in the university's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, where I work. Afterward, one of the questions I was most frequently asked by people who hadn't been around for his visit was: "Was he wearing the glasses?"
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Feb 20, 2013
Digital capitalism produces few winners
Need a crash course in digital capitalism? Easy: you just need to understand four concepts — margins, volume, inequality and employment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 8, 2013
Android 'fragmentation' leaves smartphones vulnerable
In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony text messages to Android phones — a practice called "smishing" that can ensnare consumers in fraud.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 25, 2013
I still haven't found what I'm looking for ...
Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory habit of every so often typing the words "what is" or "what" or "wha" into the Google search box at the top right of my computer screen. Those prompts are all the omnipotent engine needs to inform me of the current instant top 10 of the virtual world's most urgent desires. At the time of typing, this list reads, in descending order:
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 13, 2012
2012: The year in social media in Japan
The year in social media in Japan. Hint: Line.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 4, 2012
Today's J-blip: Google celebrate's Doraemon's -100th
Google Japan wishes Doraemon a very happy minus 100th birthday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Jan 4, 2012
2011 trends: Social media in Japan comes of age
Without a doubt, social media in Japan brought people together in 2011. The question remains: Where does everyone like to congregate?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 16, 2010
Privacy not an issue for geolocation apps
Where are you right now ... and do you want to share that information with your social network? Geolocation apps want to know.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Mar 25, 2010
Roppongi Hills back on top
Roppongi Hills was hit hard by the global credit crunch but things might be looking up again for the Tokyo landmark.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Nov 23, 2009
Japanese now a little less lost in translation
Yeah, some things still get lost in machine translation, but language barriers did grow a lot smaller in 2009.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 26, 2009
A mouthful of tech marketing
All the big players in personal computing have landed in Japan to do battle, using conventional and unusual tactics. Who will come out on top?
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Oct 3, 2009
Japanese gamers buy up Google's City Streets
So fitting that the Internet titan Google is turning the world into a game a Monopoly. Wanna buy Omotesando? Sure, but can you pay the property tax?
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Sep 17, 2009
Google Japan explains Street View adorably
Google Japan gets cute with its explanation of Street View.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Nov 16, 2008
Google reveals trends in Japan
The Japanese are more interested in iTunes than in ring-tones, ramen rather than sushi, the economy more than sex, and dogs win out over cats (but only just). That's what Google Trends, the keyword-tracking tool launched in Japan last month, would have us believe.
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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