Japan

Japan Prepares ‘Pay By Fingerprint’ System

Japanese government launches biometric payment scheme to encourage tourists ahead of 2020 Olympic Games

9 years ago

Equinix To Open Four New Data Centres Across World

Equinix details 2016 growth plans with new data centres opening in Brazil, Australia, Japan, and the United States

9 years ago

Japanese Police Get Dedicated Drone Takedown Squad

Nuisance drones could soon find their rotars clipped after Japanese police creates a dedicated drone takedown squad

9 years ago

London Is A True World Centre Of Fintech, Says Boris

Mayor of London announces closer tie-up between the capital and Tokyo to promote fintech growth

9 years ago

Equinix Snaps Up Japanese Data Centre Provider Bit-Isle

Acquistion strengthens Equinix's Asia-Pacific footprint with six Japanese data centres

9 years ago

Toshiba Chief Resigns Over Accounting Scandal

Two more executives have quit as a report reveals profit inflation going back several years

9 years ago

Japanese Senior Citizens To Get iPads With IBM Health, Community Apps

Japan Post Group, IBM and Apple team up to provide tablets and communication and healthcare apps to senior citizens

10 years ago

VAIO Phone Goes Official – But Only In Japan

Will compete against its old owner Sony in the Android smartphone market

10 years ago

SoftBank Enlists Japanese-Speaking IBM Watson As Profit Falls

IBM to teach Watson Japanese to give a helping hand to Softbank

10 years ago

Death Threats From Hacker Lead To Prison Sentence

A hacker who made a number of death threats in Japan has been jailed in a case that captured the…

10 years ago

Cloud Gaming Supercomputer Starts Trials With Final Fantasy VII

Japanese firm Shinra Technologies to deliver games through the cloud, making consoles redundant

10 years ago

Why Fujitsu Grows Lettuces In Fukushima – CEO

Masami Yamamoto, head of Fujitsu, explains why the Japanese giant is growing high-tech lettuce next door to the nuclear disaster…

10 years ago

Fujitsu And Panasonic To Combine Chip Design Efforts

The new venture will be fabless, hire employees from both companies

11 years ago

Toshiba And SanDisk Sue Hynix For Industrial Espionage

The engineer who leaked proprietary information is in custody

11 years ago

Buffalo Technology Launches Entry-Level NAS Series

LinkStation 210 and LinkStation 220 offer mobile-friendly networked storage

11 years ago

Microsoft Delivers Windows Azure To Japan

Microsoft opens two data centres in Japan as it delivers on Azure promise for the land of the Rising Sun

11 years ago

Sony Confirms Restructuring Plans And Vaio Sale

After several days of speculation, Sony has confirmed plans to restructure its electronics business

11 years ago

NTT DoCoMo Delays Tizen Smartphone Launch

Samsung-backed operating system suffers yet another setback

11 years ago

Box Targets Japan, Latin America And Australia In $100m Expansion Push

Box gains new partners and investment as it looks to increase its global footprint

11 years ago

EU And Japan Partner For 100 Gbps Internet

Japan and Europe have teamed up on a number of research projects, including one to develop 100 Gbps Internet technologies

11 years ago

Visual Tools Track Cyber Attacks In Real Time

~SEcurity staff are overwhelmed with data. Wayne Rash says we must use visualisation tools

11 years ago

Japan Police Want To Block Nefarious Tor Use

Some fear Japanese police move could lead to a blanket ban of the anonymising service

12 years ago

Japan Updates Piracy Laws With Threat Of Prison

Up to two years in confinement for “knowingly” downloading a single copyrighted file

12 years ago

Sony Mobile To Cut 1,000 Jobs

The unit formerly known as Sony Ericsson moves its headquarters to Japan

12 years ago

Fujitsu, NEC And DoCoMo Create A Chip Design Company

Japanese tech manufacturers unite to take on Qualcomm in the mobile chip market

12 years ago

Six Arrested Over Japanese Porn Blackmail Virus

Salarymen find new sources of income by running porn blackmail scam

12 years ago

US Leapfrogs Japan In Supercomputer Race

The US is now home to the world's most powerful computer, thanks to an IBM monster machine

12 years ago

Sony Cuts 10,000 Jobs, Suffers Record Losses

New CEO Kazuo Hirai has to make tough decisions at Sony

13 years ago

Trans-Polar Fibre Links Proposed To Cut London-Japan Latency

Three companies aim to use the North-West Passage for faster fibre cabling

13 years ago

Panasonic, Fujitsu and Renesas May Merge System Chip Operations

The three Japanese chip-makers are in talks about a potential merger in a government-backed deal

13 years ago