The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been hitting the news a lot recently, with dire predictions for Africa, Australia/New Zealand, and South and South East Asia, as well as more extreme weather for
the rest of us. Although the current summaries from the report don't yet enlarge on the threat, Japan was identified as one of the 8 most affected...

By my estimate, considering the number of members of chambers of commerce and the Tokyo American Club, there are probably around 12,000 – 15,000 expatriate employees of Multinational Foreign Corporations (MNFCs) in Japan – most of whom are based in Tokyo. This week we finish up with some of the additional benefits that only expats can enjoy and the rest of us can look on in wonder.

In a move reminiscent of Livedoor's Horiemon, at 04:00 am on March 1st this year, mobile content company For-side.com announced that it would downgrade its earnings for FY2006 (ending Dec. 31, 2006) to a massive JPY60.6bn (US$51.4m) loss. The company blamed the result mostly on an extraordinary JPY71.3bn (US$60.4m) loss on its sale of UK subsidiary iTouch. For-side's stock price as of last Friday (April 20th) was just JPY3,780, about 85% lower than a year ago, and less than 2% of the company's peak back in October 2002. So what went wrong with this once high-flying firm? Most analysts agree that...

The Gist: Logitec aims to replace even your alarm clock with the new 'LDS-iALARM,' a take-off on the standard iPod dock. The iALARM more closely resembles an alarm clock than it does anything else. The concept is straightforward: just insert your 4th gem or greater iPod or 1st/2nd generation iPod nano into the
iALARM's Dock connector. The iPod itself has an alarm function, but such a function is slightly hard to use with headphones alone. The iALARM acts as a speaker, so you... Read Now