Networks
Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it
(And maintain a guard band.) US airliners melt down as rest of world moves on
19 Jan 2022 16:16 | 62
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Science
You wood not believe what a Japanese logging company and university want to use to build a small satellite
Has the sustainability trend infiltrated the space industry?
04 Jan 2022 19:01 | 93
Science
Boffins' first take on asteroid dust from Japanese probe: Carbon rich, less lumpy than expected
The five grams of Ryugu we got suggests it's made of the same stuff as the outer Sun
22 Dec 2021 10:03 | 79
Off-Prem
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots
21 Dec 2021 23:30 | 58
Security
Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China
16 Dec 2021 06:46 | 4
Update
Will I inhale coronavirus at this restaurant? There’s an app for that
Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy
15 Dec 2021 04:25 | 20
Security
LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users' data to GitHub, of all places
Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company
07 Dec 2021 04:03 | 3
Security
Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost
30 Nov 2021 04:27 | 10
Software
Giant Japanese corporations to launch bank-backed digital currency
Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks
25 Nov 2021 05:58 | 19
AI + ML
Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan
Railway wants self-driving bullet trains overseen by staff that aren't trained as drivers
19 Nov 2021 04:54 | 83
On-Prem
Toshiba to become Threeshiba – company split to spur growth as strife persists
One company for devices, one for office kit, another for infrastructure, batteries & tech services, Kioxia stake to be sold
15 Nov 2021 04:59 | 6
Off-Prem
Japan picks AWS and Google for first gov cloud push
Local players passed over for Digital Agency’s first project
27 Oct 2021 05:58 |
Security
India, Japan flex cyber-defence muscles as China kicks the Quad
Tokyo's new cyber-security policy names China, Russia, North Korea as sources of increasing threat
28 Sep 2021 04:23 | 3
Offbeat
Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much
Biodiversity increasing, endangered species gradually returning despite radioactive terror pig presence
24 Sep 2021 14:45 | 77
Virtualization
PayPal buys Japanese buy-now-pay-later player Paidy for $2.7bn
It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters
09 Sep 2021 06:01 | 1
Off-Prem
Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants
22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan
08 Sep 2021 04:46 | 3
Off-Prem
AWS Tokyo outage takes down banks, share traders, and telcos
Six-hour slump for Direct Connect caused by 'loss of networking devices' – we'll assume that means they broke, not that they fell behind a couch
02 Sep 2021 07:55 | 13
Updated
Apple to let reader apps steer users towards out-of-App-Store purchasing following Japanese watchdog probe
Regulator says it's happy book, music, newspaper programs can now whisper of the universe beyond the iOS walled garden
02 Sep 2021 02:14 | 8
Networks
Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat
27 Aug 2021 07:15 | 24
Science
Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible
Still, that'll be 100 quid, please
27 Aug 2021 06:44 | 43
Science
A new island has popped up off the coast of Japan thanks to an underwater volcano
The saying is that they aren't making any more land yet here we are
17 Aug 2021 10:25 | 35
Off-Prem
NEC to move its IT into Azure and give staff – all 110,000 of ’em – a cloudy Windows desktop
Japanese services giant deepens ties with Microsoft and reckons it can address Japan’s ageing population
14 Jul 2021 05:01 | 17
Bootnotes
Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo
We'd hate to see the litter tray
08 Jul 2021 18:59 | 26
Bootnotes
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers
01 Jul 2021 20:01 | 202
Legal
Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated
Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors
21 Jun 2021 01:10 | 17
Legal
NTT slashes top execs’ pay as punishment for paying more than their share of $500-a-head meals with government officials
None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it
10 Jun 2021 04:58 | 23
On-Prem
Japan to dangle as many Yen as it takes to lure chipmakers to its shores, because everyone else is doing it too
National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres
03 Jun 2021 02:58 | 4
Science
Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets
Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water
26 May 2021 08:00 | 10
AI + ML
Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!
'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day
19 May 2021 07:28 | 13
Applications
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
'My Number' identifier to become central to myriad government services if the plan works
13 May 2021 06:58 | 53
Security
Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency
200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost
21 Apr 2021 03:30 | 4
Software
Japan tests digital currency, because all the cool kids are doing it already
Starts year-long proof of concept for the basics, meanwhile China is already testing cross-border crypto-payments
06 Apr 2021 08:15 | 13
Off-Prem
Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain
Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed)
06 Apr 2021 04:57 | 21
Security
LINE stops data flowing to China after Japanese officials ditch app over privacy concerns
App's owner says users didn't bail
24 Mar 2021 03:31 | 5
Personal Tech
Sloppy data compliance sees Japanese government cut out its own use of LINE messaging app
May! crush! super-app! dreams! of! the! company! formerly! known! as! Yahoo! Japan!
22 Mar 2021 23:08 | 7
On-Prem
Fire takes out Japanese chip plant, owner Renesas warns of more silicon shortages
5% of clean room cooked, hopes to be back in a month
21 Mar 2021 23:59 | 18
Security
Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group
'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values
14 Mar 2021 23:46 | 8
PaaS + IaaS
Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints
Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait
02 Mar 2021 06:07 |
Security
‘Quad’ nations sign up for meta think-tank to advance ‘Techno-Democratic Statecraft’
As China bristles, USA, Japan, India, and Australia create forum to explore the intersection of tech and regional security
09 Feb 2021 05:01 | 5
Software
Japan’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app hasn't warned users of encounters with carriers since September
Android edition just didn’t do the job and Health Ministry knew it. Now Japan is in its third and nastiest wave of infections
05 Feb 2021 05:11 | 62
AI + ML
Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again
Attempts tech fix to solve aging crisis
09 Dec 2020 06:26 | 63
Software
Tokyo Stock Exchange lets CEO resign to atone for October outage, other execs take pay cuts and rebukes
Wobbly NAS tended by Fujitsu crashed trading – and automatic failover failed
01 Dec 2020 03:21 | 12
Security
China-linked hacking gang ‘APT10’ named as probable actor behind extended attacks on Japanese companies
Campaign even targeted branch offices inside China and sought secrets of automotive and engineering companies
19 Nov 2020 03:58 | 7
Science
Japan testing sandwiches that discount themselves as they age
Snacks will ID themselves using RFID and an app will tell punters when there's cheap chow to be chomped
30 Oct 2020 05:56 | 27
Security
Tokyo Stock Exchange breaks new record. Sadly, not a good one... its longest ever outage
Fujtisu kit on the floor tho bourse takes the blame for day-long dead zone
02 Oct 2020 02:14 | 5
Personal Tech
Japan unveils new scheme to speed up adoption of cashless payments
Already curiously slow to get into e-payments, nation hopes avoiding a certain virus will prove an impetus
29 Sep 2020 03:15 | 14
Legal
Japan’s new PM makes e-government a key plank of his platform
And fancies giving mobile carriers a kicking to bust cosy triumvirate and make number-porting less of a nightmare
17 Sep 2020 05:19 | 6
Legal
UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements
Template for post-Brexit bilateral deals excludes algorithmic disclosures too
14 Sep 2020 07:30 | 55
Science
What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan
Takes its domestic standard for human/robot interactions to the ISO to get moving machines working with humans in hospitals and beyond
03 Sep 2020 06:27 | 6
Science
Tired: Cheap space launch outfits. Wired: Software-and-data-as-a-service for cheap space launch outfits
Japan’s iSpace has put itself in the second column but also plans lunar landers of its own
21 Aug 2020 02:57 | 6
Personal Tech
We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard
Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun
06 Aug 2020 04:15 | 24
Security
Japan starts work on global quantum crypto network
Toshiba leads effort that aspires to run 100 quantum cryptographic devices for 10,000 users by 2024
29 Jul 2020 07:02 | 8
Legal
Japan plans massive national tech modernisation program
Land of the bureaucratic stamp wants to be ready if plague and natural disasters coincide
20 Jul 2020 01:29 | 10
Legal
South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club
President chooses chip factory to expands program aimed at reducing dependence on Japan
10 Jul 2020 08:02 | 14
Software
DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register
Holiday did not go as planned, but he’s working remotely, participating in agile rituals and happy at the half-way mark of a two-week stretch
11 May 2020 06:36 | 159
Legal
Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!
As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool
14 Apr 2020 04:03 | 1
Science
Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists
Imagine an iPad running FaceTime clamped to a post stuck into a Roomba and you'll get the idea
02 Apr 2020 02:02 | 10
Networks
Japan would like to offer 5G firms cheap loans – because subsidies are only bad when Huawei gets them
Look over here! Mmmmm, tax breaks
18 Feb 2020 18:30 | 7
Personal Tech
Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years
Extra $37bn levy on notebooks, slabs pushes American retailers to panic buy, buy, buy
11 Oct 2019 12:00 | 14
Legal
Seoul cycle, rinse and repeat: South Korea kicks Japan off white list
Or why My Chemical Romance broke up
12 Aug 2019 17:07 | 8
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