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Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2014
Government, industry bodies take part in first broad cybersecurity drill
Japan faces a full-on cyber-attack across government departments Tuesday in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country gears up to host the 2020 Olympics.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 20, 2014
Cracking the code of computer education
Last week, my inbox began to fill up with angry emails. Had I seen the dreadful/unbelievable/disgraceful/hilarious (delete as appropriate) "Newsnight" interview with Lottie Dexter? I hadn't, and as I'd never heard of Ms. Dexter, I wasn't unduly bothered. After all, life is too short to watch every edition...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2014
Firm's smartphone bar code system offers food info in foreign languages
Bar code maker Sato Holdings develops a multilingual system to let people call up information on allergens or religiously sensitive ingredients in Japanese food by smartphone.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 2, 2014
Public's reaction to 'betrayal'
In light of the recent enact of the state secrets protectiion law, it is urgent that Japan improve its handling and disclosure of government information.
EDITORIALS
Dec 2, 2013
The politics of secrets
Flip-flops in government explanations of the contentious bill for protecting state secrets — now under deliberation in the Upper House — suggest that the government itself does not have a clear idea of how it plans to prevent the arbitrary designation of information as a special secret.
EDITORIALS
Nov 20, 2013
Kill the secrecy bill
The government's proposed amendments to its secrecy bill do not changed its basic undemocratic nature. It should be killed.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2013
Stalking victim info leak laid to tax man
A former tax division chief in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, may have been the person who leaked personal information on a local housewife that enabled a stalker to track her to her home and murder her last November, police sources said Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 7, 2013
Stalking victim info leaked by Zushi officials?
Private information about a woman who was stalked and killed by her former boyfriend is thought to have been leaked by a local government in Kanagawa.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2013
New secrecy law seen best serving bureaucrats
The secrecy bill is dangerous because Japan already has a lot of nondisclosable information and several laws to protect it, the head of an NPO warns.
EDITORIALS
Nov 4, 2013
Preventing information leaks
The three-year statute of limitations has expired on indictments of suspects in the online streaming of terror probe documents. Police made no arrests, but the case spurred a dangerous anti-leaks bill.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2013
U.S. model not seen serving Japan's bid to keep its secrets
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government pushes for a controversial new state secrets law, critics warn that the public's right to know will be greatly stifled because the bill, recently approved by the Cabinet, targets leakers of information the state deems critical to defense, diplomacy, terrorism...
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2013
Nearly all Japan's genetic testing facilities mismanage patient info
Almost all of Japan's medical facilities mismanage the genetic information of patients they check for genetic and chromosomal abnormalities as part of in vitro programs, a health ministry research group survey showed Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2013
Seoul holding off on treaty to share defense info
South Korea has no plans to seek a treaty with Japan on exchanging confidential military information, South Korea's Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2013
Leak gives Tokyo police black eye
Three years after someone leaked documents on its counterterrorism investigations onto the Internet, Tokyo police have reached a dead end in their efforts to find the culprit while some Muslim residents who served as informants continue to live in fear with their identities exposed.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2013
Case over online leak of anti-terror info gets dropped
Tokyo police on Tuesday dropped their case over a 2010 leak that included sensitive details about their anti-terrorism efforts because the statute of limitations for filing charges expired.
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2013
Japan's technology ranking slips
Japan has slipped from eighth to 12th place in the rankings of global information and communications technology development. And its young people aren't as network-savvy as presumed.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2013
Prosecution clerk who leaked info to yakuza gets suspended prison term
A former employee of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office was sentenced to a suspended one-year prison term Friday for leaking sensitive investigative information to yakuza.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2013
Softbank mars credit rating of customers
Softbank Mobile Corp. said that due to a computer programming error, it reported 63,133 customers as "delinquent" to a credit information agency even though they were making installment payments for their mobile phones on time.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2013
The limits of multitasking
Studies of the effects of chronic multitasking suggest that the overwhelming risk of letting no task go untended is that you do nothing well.
EDITORIALS
Sep 9, 2013
Anti-democratic secrecy bill
A bill to protect government secrets could undermine the fundamental democratic principles of freedom of information and freedom of the press.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Japan passes bill to introduce 'blue ticket' fines for cyclists
A new system under which bicycle riders pay fines for minor traffic violations to escape criminal punishment is expected to be introduced in Japan no later than 2026.
Japan changes law to allow joint custody after divorce
Legislation that allows the option of joint custody of children after divorce is passed at the Upper House plenary session on Friday.
U.S. envoy to Japan makes landmark visit to front-line island near Taiwan
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel meets with members of the Self-Defense Forces stationed on Yonaguni, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday.
Japan to review romanization system for first time in 70 years
An advisory panel to the education ministry will consider how the Japanese language should be transcribed into the Latin alphabet, including unifying different romanization styles currently in use.
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
A new initiative rethinks old Tohoku crafts
The colored patterns of Tsuguru "nuri," made in Aomori Prefecture, are achieved by applying multiple coatings of lacquer, which are later polished down to reveal layers of colors beneath.
Xi and Putin mark ‘new era’ amid efforts to counter U.S. ‘containment’
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend an event in Beijing on Thursday. During Putin's visit, the leaders showed off their growing alignment amid efforts to push back against the U.S.-led world order.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.

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