Anti-Groping Software Grabbing Japan
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Japanese women who ride congested commuter trains are taking their fight against gropers into their own hands  -  with a little help from technology, that is
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TOKYO - Nearly 64 percent of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s participating in a survey said they've been groped on trains, subways or at transit stations in Tokyo, according to a news report Tuesday.
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Fallout from a military data breach allegedly triggered by porn and peer-to-peer file sharing in Japan continues, with the homes of several members of the country's Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) as well as a destroyer raided in the investigation. The breach comes at a bad time for U.S.-Japan relations.
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Japan's answer to workplace sexual harassment: fetish restaurants where patrons can feel up the waitresses instead of their co-workers. By Lisa Katayama.
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Police investigating a man for allegedly spreading a computer virus had to arrest him on a copyright infringement charge because Japan lacks laws against malicious computer programs, a police officer said Friday.
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Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)--Social networking service, a members-only online community, has rapidly been gaining popularity in Japan, fueling competition among major Internet service providers.
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The Supreme Court of Japan on Tuesday overruled a 2003 Tokyo High Court decision and decided that âMapplethorpe,â a book of erotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), shown at right in a self-portrait, did not violate obscenity laws, The Associated Press reported. The decision should pave the way for sale of the book in Japan for the first time in eight years. Although it decided that the book was not indecent, the Supreme Court rejected a demand by the publisher, Uplink, for government compensation of $20,370, according to Takashi Ando, a spokesman for the court. Takashi Asai of Uplink had been contesting the confiscation of the book in 1999 and his voluntary suspension of its sales in 2000 in response to police warnings. In the Supreme Court decision, by a majority of the five-judge bench, Justice Kohei Nasu wrote that the 384-page volume of black-and-white portraits, including 20 close-ups of male genitalia, âcompiles work from the artistic point of view, and is not obscene as a whole.â Mr. Asai sold about 900 copies of the Japanese version of âMapplethorpe,â originally published in Japan by Random House in 1994 without objection from the authorities. But airport customs officials, declaring the book obscene, confiscated Mr. Asaiâs copy when he returned from a trip to the United States in 1999. He called the Supreme Court decision âgroundbreakingâ and said it âcould change the obscenity standardâ used for banning foreign films that depict nudity and for censoring photographs in books.
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CHIBA, Japan, Oct 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forget the giant  flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest  technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed  his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the  gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.
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As many as 250,000 Japanese are estimated to be making free phone calls around the world over the Internet thanks, indirectly, to a controversial file-swapping technology.
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Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos &#151; not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures &#151; and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.
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Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
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CHIBA, Japan, Oct 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forget the giant   flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest   technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed   his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the   gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.
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Insensitivity to cultural issues has led to some of the software giant's products being banned in some countries.
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In Japan, the cell phone strap is a form of self-expression. By Lisa Katayama.
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A Japanese-developed adult-themed  computer game has incensed some of China's Internet surfers who  deem it a bawdy slur on the classic novel, "Dream of the Red  Chamber."
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Toshiba on Tuesday underlined the growing determination of Japanese companies to protect their intellectual property rights, announcing legal action in Japan and the US against Hynix of South Korea for alleged infringement of its memory chip patents.
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A Japanese firm said it has created a jellyfish-shaped robot that can alert homeowners to burglars or housesit for their pets -- and, when not at work, lounge about and be "beautiful."