Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal ...

Here's Nonai Maker's analysis of my brain. According to the diagram, I have money in the forefront of my mind, love at the top, secrets at the back, worries at the bottom, and a vast sea of desire ...

In the summer of 2007 Toshiaki Kanda, a freelance video journalist, decided to run for the upper house of the Japanese Parliament as an independent—no easy feat in a country where machine politics ...

If you are interested in learning more about how website design is implemented in different countries, you are sure to enjoy this look at Japanese website construction techniques by Phoebe Yu.

Romeo at OpenMediaLaboratory doesn't see anything wrong with the current direction: 私はWebの世界はもっと「愚衆化」が進めばいいと思っている。サブカルチャーの部分がどんどん進めばいい。新たな文化は結局 ...

Yahoo’s stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to appease angry shareholders in the U.S. While Yahoo seems to ...

T O K Y O,   Jan. 25 -- Japan suffered an embarrassment today when hackers penetrated two government Web sites, leaving a message in one of them criticising the Japanese government’s position on ...

In a culture that prizes decorum, Hiroyuki Nishimura's Web video site and bulletin board are a chaotic — and sometimes obscene — free-for-all. Illustration: Christoph Niemann I'm sitting in a sterile ...

The Land of the Rising Sun has fascinated travelers for centuries, and this summer is no exception. You’ll also want to download a free translation app like Google ...

Part Two and Part Three of this post highlights some of the discussions in the blogosphere and Twittersphere that followed the conterversial interview “The Japanese web is ‘disappointing': An ...