Technology and Electronics

In April 2019, the new labor laws went into effect for large companies. Small companies will follow suit in April 2020. The lead-up...

What’s life like for the average worker in Japan? First, endure a stressful, claustrophobic commute on one or more vacuum-packed trains.

Japan’s cities and office buildings have been gradually squeezing smokers into smaller confines, forbidding puffing away while walking on the street and creating...

Some of them look as though they’ve just rolled out of bed before making their YouTube upload, pausing just long enough to make...

She has over 170,000 uploaded YouTube videos, 1,000,000 created artworks and 100,000 original songs under her name, some of which have been top karaoke picks...

Anyone paying attention to the stock market over the past six months will have borne witness to the incredible run up of the...

At the beginning of 2011 The New York Times wrote a piece with a headline “Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan.”

Nowadays, it’s often said that television is a dying medium and that newer, more interactive forms of media are taking its place. This...

When I first came to Japan in the late 1990s, one of the most telling signs of the country’s consumer technology progress versus...

Any of us who experienced the events of March 11, 2011 and their aftermath will understand just how intrinsic social media platforms have...

Two recent high-profile information security breaches — Sony and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security.

Two recent high-profile data breaches — at Sony Corp. and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security.