Japan

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…

9 years ago

Cloud Gaming Supercomputer Starts Trials With Final Fantasy VII

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

9 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

10 years ago

Toshiba And SanDisk Sue Hynix For Industrial Espionage

The engineer who leaked proprietary information is in custody

10 years ago

Buffalo Technology Launches Entry-Level NAS Series

LinkStation 210 and LinkStation 220 offer mobile-friendly networked storage

10 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

10 years ago

Sony Confirms Restructuring Plans And Vaio Sale

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

10 years ago

NTT DoCoMo Delays Tizen Smartphone Launch

Samsung-backed operating system suffers yet another setback

10 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

12 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

12 years ago

Japan Develops Defensive Cyberweapon Arsenal

Japanese military plans to deal with an offensive cyber-attack on the country and its infrastructure have been revealed

12 years ago

Google Takes Street View To Post-Tsunami Japan

Google adds 'before and after' images of areas of Japan affected by March's earthquake and tsunami

12 years ago

Rohm’s 30Gbps Processor Works In THz Band

A processor is being developed in Japan that will penetrate skin and paper at speeds up to 30Gbps

12 years ago

Japan Shows Its Moves Into The Mobile Market

The CeaTac show is a chance to see how Japanese tech is faring against South Korea, China and Taiwan

13 years ago

Tablet And e-Reader Boost For Semiconductor Sales

Tablet and e-reader demand blunts the impact of the Japanese disasters on the semiconductor industry

13 years ago

Gartner: Tsunami Failed To Dampen IT Sales

Despite the Japanese disasters, Gartner estimates global IT spending will jump to $3.7 trillion this year

13 years ago

Data Centres – Watch Japan’s Energy Crisis

Japan's energy crisis is bringing about changes to data centres. The same thing will have to happen here, says Peter…

13 years ago

Japan Reclaims Supercomputing Crown

The computing arms race continues with the news that Japan now has the world's most powerful supercomputer

13 years ago

iRobot Sends Army Droids Into Japanese Nuclear Plant

Robots originally designed for the US military are surveying the damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plants

13 years ago