Archived Magazine Contents

July 2003 Issue

Upfront
	From the Editor The Editor's page

	Investor Insight: A special section for professional investors focused on Japan Selling to Seniors: The "Grey Panthers" duke it out with the rip-off artists in Japan's new growth market.

	Kyoto's MK Taxi Tries to Transform Japan Kansai columnist Dominic Al-Badri drives around with Kansai's kindest cabbies.

	Post-Saddam Iraq: Not Much for Japan Military correspondent and television commentator Michael E. Stanley argues that the war in Iraq only exacerbates Japan's global irrelevance.

	Mitsui Mines for Nanotech Gold Japan rocks carbon nanotubes; meet Sumio Iijima, nanotech genius.

	Hokkaido's Outdoor Entrepreneur Can an Australian outdoorsman turn Hokkaido into Colorado?

	Korea Bets on A Digital Future J@pan Inc treks to Seoul for Korea's biggest IT exhibition and finds lots to celebrate.

	One for the Road Is there life after lithium? Nanotech fuel cells are tiny and tenacious.

	A Capsule Camera to Save Stomachs A painless pill-sized camera can see and save what's inside you.

	Tepco's Blackout Bluster Is Tokyo's energy crisis just a political power play? Leo Lewis finds out.

	The Pulse 2

	The Pulse Technology and Finance News

	To the Editor The Editor's page

	Contributors The Editor's page

Features
	IPv6: Asia's Agent of Change The US dominates the Net -- but not for long. Author John Alderman investigates IPv6, the most visionary development in Internet Protocol since the 70s, which promises to provide Japan and the rest of Asia with an explosion of Internet addresses, paving the way to a whole new world of electronic gizmos.

	The Sakhalin Oil Boom Part 1: From Poverty to Prospects On Russia's Sakhalin island, the biggest energy boom on the planet is happening a mere 40 kilometers from the tip of Hokkaido. In the first of our two-part feature, veteran journalist Lucille Craft traces the history of this otherwise desolate former penal colony amid the challenges of radical transformation -- and the potential destruction of its environment.

	Sakhalin's Environmental Quandaries How to protect the environment while plundering the land.

	The Sakhalin Oil Boom Part 2: Prejudice versus Profit Fulbright Fellow David Wolman surveys the rigs from a Russian helicopter, soars over the icy terrain of Russo-Japan relations and stops in with Sapporo-based Simon Jackson, who seeks profits by marketing the peripherals. Can the Japanese surmount conflict and the Kuril controversy to cash in?

	Bridging the Gap New Zealander Simon Jackson might get rich by being the perfect Sakhalin middleman -- in Sapporo.

In Parting
	Niigata: Japan's North Asia Hub Language difficulties, intense competition and productivity, political instability and poor infrastructure have all made finding a suitable base to service the markets of North Asia a daunting challenge for foreign companies

	Japan's Mobile Internet Roars Back After the rest of the world wrote them off, Japanese mobile companies are back in the driver's seat.

	Global Success Why Homare Takenaka believes the Global Service Center concept is ideally suited for success

Blowfish
	Blowfish Carping about crime, our sleek-finned sakana stares into mirrors, TVs and cinemas for a solution.