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Long Term Research
Since 1989, the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute near Kyoto has conducted some of the most significant, long-term research in human-machine communications. Now the institute is being restructured, and more than a decade of quiet research is coming to fruition ... |
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Japan's Dot Bombs
Was it a rash of tech entrepreneurialism last year, or just a lot of rash tech entrepreneurialism? Judging from some companies, more of the latter. |
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Telematics a-Go-Go
How the computerization of automobiles in Japan will forever change the way we related to our cars. |
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Xbox Courts Japan
Whatever happens in the US market with the Xbox game console, Microsoft's biggest challenge is winning over Japanese developers and consumers. |
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Bit-Sized
A devil's dictionary, the real money behind cellphones, and a Japanese tech celeb's rough-and-tumble journey in an online chat room. |
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Japan's Cyber-Savvy Pols
Politicians in Japan are finally wising up to the ways of the Web. |
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People |
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Yoichiro
The president of XML developer Infoteria discusses Japanese software, his first company and decade at Lotus, and why he believes in XML. |
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Statistics
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Internet users around the world, broadband expectations, and which devices Japanese use to get online. |
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Building an Electronic Electric Town
Vertical portal play Venture Republic taps into the power of databases and its big-name partners. |
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A Poor Man's MAN
If TMAN has its way, companies big and small in Tokyo could soon be enjoying the high speeds of metropolitan area networks. |
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Follow-Up
A fresh look at some of the ventures we've covered in the past -- where are they today? |
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Radar Screen
This month: fons, Tasnet, and more. |
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In Parting |
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Trivia Japan
On rubber-soled socks, the most-liked tech brands, cable TV growth, and the popularity of Pooh. |
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Art Department
Maybe it takes an artist as traditional as Shinro Ohtake to make the digital seem so painterly ... |
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