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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 15, 2013
Trolls or media watchdogs?: Japan's foreign-born defenders
Have the foreign media got it in for Japan? Do they unduly focus on, and sensationalize, Fukushima radiation leaks, alleged racial intolerance and the self-aggrandizing policy pronouncements of the reborn Liberal Democratic Party?
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2013
Internet industry is wary of plan to expand domains
A plan to dramatically expand the number of possible Web addresses could cause widespread disruption to Internet operations, some industry officials say.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 14, 2013
Only 19% of young voters go online for election info: survey
Only around a fifth of the nation's younger voters are using the Internet to get information on political parties and their candidates, a survey said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 14, 2013
Somali-American is caught up in U.S. counterpropaganda campaign
Two days after he became a U.S. citizen, Abdiwali Warsame embraced the First Amendment by creating a raucous website about his native Somalia. Packed with news and controversial opinions, it rapidly became a magnet for Somalis dispersed around the world, including tens of thousands in Minnesota.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 13, 2013
Democracy hits the Web, but are the 'real' voters listening?
The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article on its Japan Real Time blog regarding the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP's) beef with broadcaster TBS, whom it accused of bias against the ruling party on its "News 11" program.
EDITORIALS
Jul 10, 2013
Japan's first 'Internet election'
Political candidates don't seem to be using the Internet effectively ahead of the July 21 Upper House polls. The messages read more like diaries than policy arguments.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2013
Internal ministry emails on treaty left out in open
Due to an oversight, a mailing list set up by the Environment Ministry was publicly accessible, enabling anyone to read internal emails on international negotiations held in January.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2013
Osaka tax official arrested for inciting another man to grope a commuter
A man who allegedly incited another man to grope a woman on a train is arrested in Wakayama Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / GAME OF NUMBERS
Jul 9, 2013
Tech-savvy candidates hope to reach young voters via online campaigns
For Kan Suzuki, a tech-savvy Upper House member, the Internet is a powerful campaign tool that he can use to help him win a third term at a time when his party is facing so much adversity.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2013
U.S. Web-monitoring devices in Iran, Sudan
American-made devices used for Internet monitoring have been detected on government and commercial computer networks in Iran and Sudan, in apparent violation of U.S. sanctions that ban the sale of goods, services or technology to the autocratic states, according to new research.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2013
The cyber highway potholes
There is no going back to the pre-Internet era. So we must work to ensure that freedom of information is not significantly undermined by cyber censorship.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2013
Beware the Internet and the danger of cyberattacks
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson has had it with the Internet. He says its astonishing capability to access information is not worth the dangers from cyberwar.
LIFE / Digital
Jun 19, 2013
The NSA has us all trapped
Watching British Foreign Secretary William Hague doing his avuncular routine in the Commons on June 10, I was reminded of the way establishment figures in the 1950s used to reassure hoi polloi that they had nothing to worry about. Everything was in order. The Right Chaps were in charge. Citizens who...
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 9, 2013
Data-mining soars even as 9/11 fades
Expanded surveillance by the U.S. government was cast as a price of war in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Yet nearly a dozen years later, the war on terrorism is showing signs of ebbing while the surveillance systems crafted to fight it continue unabated.
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BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jun 6, 2013
Apple faces antitrust hurdle amid talk of 'iRadio'
Reports that Apple is starting a new music-streaming service sent Pandora's stock price tumbling Monday and sparked talk that the tech giant may be regaining its footing after several difficult months. But experts say there is at least one potential obstacle ahead for the company — federal antitrust...
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 5, 2013
Japan to allow online sales of 99% of all OTC drugs
The administration, as part of its strategy to stimulate growth, decides to allow more than 99 percent of nonprescription drugs to be sold over the Internet.
WORLD
Jun 3, 2013
In Britain, a debate over freedom of the tweet
After the recent slaying of a British soldier in a suspected Islamist extremist attack, angry social media users took to Twitter and Facebook, with some dispatching racially and religiously charged comments that got them quickly noticed on the busy boulevards of the Internet.
BUSINESS
May 31, 2013
Japan, U.S. mull successor to Internet
Japanese and U.S. science and technology bodies agreed Wednesday to help both countries develop a next-generation information transmission network that could replace the Internet.
COMMENTARY / World
May 27, 2013
Hold the false prophets of doom accountable
Apocalyptic prophecies and the raucous festivities accompanying them are indisputably alluring. But imaginary cataclysms have real-world consequences.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 22, 2013
Yahoo's Tumblr deal carries risks, rewards
Yahoo has concluded that Tumblr, the social blogging service, is worth a whopping $1.1 billion. Will the bet prove a good one?

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