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From the Editor
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Blue About Japan
Shuji Nakamura invented the blue laser. That was big. If you've got a DVD player, thank this guy. But Nakamura, profoundly disillusioned by his treatment from corporate Japan, saw the light and fled to California. |
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Hard Cell
Japan's cellphone giants are about to conquer the planet, right? Wrong. We're not talkin' boomboxes and Walkmans here -- software integration and internationalization are serious barriers. |
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Creativity in the Wilderness
The Inter-Cross Creative Center is in Sapporo -- in the middle of nowhere, some Tokyo-ites would say. For the free-spirited inhabitants of ICC, that's the best place to be. |
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Drowning in Support?
A "business innovation center" in Osaka stands somewhere between entrepreneurial incubator and pork-barrel spending. |
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Maligned Myline
A new service lets Japan's long-gouged phone users more easily pick and choose carriers, but NTT isn't too worried. |
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Keyword Culture
A look at the top search terms on the sites of some popular Japanese tech magazines reveals some interesting trends. |
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A Weather-Affected, Massively Multiplayer, Java-Based i-Mode Game
An innovative Java handset game shows the growing sophistication of the wireless content business. |
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People |
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Norio Yanagihara
A professor of international business strategy, he's fostering -- and giving grades to -- tech ventures in Kyoto. |
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Shigeru Nomura
This editor in chief is heading up a how-to magazine for Japan's ever increasing number of entrepreneurs. |
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Research |
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Statistics
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The rising number of Net users, where people surf, MP3 behavior, and the BS element to interactive TV. |
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Japan Studies
How romantic are the Japanese? |
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From Game Consoles to Game Phones
With the game console market maturing and its revenues slowing, Hokkaido-based developer Hudson Soft turns to the wireless Web. |
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US Telematics Player Braves Japan
Cellport Systems hopes Japan's drivers will adapt its "server and cellphone-docking station" set-up. |
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On Our Radar Screen
This month: Venture Republic, CA Mobile, APAS, Net Seeds. |
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In Parting |
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Art Department
Kenji Yanobe's works suggest the digital, but they're handmade and analog. |
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Blowfish
Hand drills, cotton work gloves, serving trays, playing cards, furoshiki, and uchiwa -- some stuff never gets old. |
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