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• Article | 13/04/2011 Fukushima Daiichi workers clear debris by remote control

  Remotely controlled construction machinery rolled into the site of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last week to help clear roads an...
• Article | 13/03/2011 Rolling blackouts, tsunami damage try Japanese companies

  A day after Japan's biggest earthquake ever caused widespread destruction and as-yet uncounted deaths, Japan's biggest electronics companies are tryin...
• Article | 2/07/2010 Massive rise in Asia Pacific social media posts

  If you think big brother is watching your every move, he probably is, according to a leading online researcher, with Australia leading the world in so...
• Article | 22/05/2010 Japan Proposes Global Holographic World Cup Broadcast

  Holographic TV is the future, literally. Japanese tech-heads revealed proposals to FIFA this week to host the 2022 World Cup, offering with it hologra...
• Article | 20/05/2010 ZTE's first Japanese handset designed for elderly users

  Chinese handset and telecommunication equipment maker ZTE showed off its first handset designed for Japan, a model that's intended for elderly cell-ph...
• Article | 11/05/2010 Apple to SIM-lock Japanese iPads

  Apple appears to have reversed course in Japan on a key feature of its iPad 3G: It won't offer a version capable of being used with different cellular...
• Article | 3/05/2010 Sony to report first profit in 2 years

  Sony is expected to next week report its first full-year operating profit in 2 years, according to a report in Saturday's Nikkei newspaper.
• Article | 18/03/2010 Child porn, drugs lead Internet content complaints in Japan

  Complaints to a Japanese Internet watchdog regarding illegal content almost doubled in 2009, led by a surge in reports related to child pornography an...
• Article | 12/02/2010 Japanese invent printer that uses plastic paper

  In a triumph of later thinking, a Japanese company has invented a deskside 'eco' printer that needs no ink or toner and instead relies on a new kind o...
• Article | 3/02/2010 Softbank pays US$20 million for stake in Ustream

  Ustream, a service that provides live video streaming across the Internet, has attracted US$20 million in investment from Japan's Softbank and is plan...
• Article | 28/12/2009 Japan connects to TPE regional fiber network

  A new undersea fiber-optic cable has gone into operation that links Japan with the regional Trans-Pacific Express Cable Network (TPE), Japanese carrie...
• Article | 26/11/2009 Tokyo students design a new robotic muscle suit

  Students at Tokyo's University of Science have developed a new version of their muscle suit, a wearable robotic suit that assists the muscles when car...
• Article | 26/10/2009 Virtual bears, futuristic pods and spaghetti rain in Tokyo

  It might earn them university credits but a robot developed by students in Japan won't help dispel the image of the lazy student. The robot has been d...
• Article | 21/10/2009 Concept cars boast green, gadget cred at Tokyo Motor Show

  If you care about the environment and like gadgets there's a double dose of good news from this year's Tokyo Motor Show.
• Article | 11/10/2009 KDDI pairs a mobile phone with a robot

  As mobile phones add more features and more users connect with social media, the cell phone becomes a more important part of people's lives. Japanese ...