Livedoor trial reflects changes in Japan
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When the trial of Japan's most famous dot-com entrepreneur opens Monday, a much wider issue will also be before the court: this nation's tenuous shift to a more freewheeling market economy.
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TOKYO -- During her many years working for a major Japanese trading company, Michiko Koseki said, she and her female co-workers have suffered a series of indignities both small and large. But the 59-year-old clerical worker was nevertheless shocked a few years ago when her company suddenly decided...
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Former Internet mogul Takafumi Horie asserted his innocence at his trial's opening Monday, challenging the Japanese court system with the same cockiness with which he shook the nation's staid corporate culture during his rise to fame.
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ELEANOR HALL: It&#39;s being watched closely around the world as a test of Indonesia&#39;s stand against terrorism. Today the trial of Abu Bakar Bashir has begun in the Indonesian capital with the cleric facing charges relating to the Bali and Marriott bombings.
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LOS ANGELES _ Justice delayed may be justice denied _but at the end of the day it is incontestably better than nothing. Societies that disrespect the professionalism of their courts ultimately court catastrophe.
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(InfoWorld) - The CEO of Japan's leading social networking site, Mixi Inc., said Wednesday he hopes the country's law will be changed to allow users more freedom in sharing and viewing copyrighted content on the Internet. Mixi is Japan's third largest Web site in terms of traffic and enjoys more than 8 million users, two-thirds of whom log in at least once every four days to update their online diary, share pictures with friends and participate in group discussion forums. "Presently it is very difficult to upload any film that was shown on TV and distribute that over the Internet," Kenji Kasahara said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. "I do hope that will change because I believe that it is natural that people want to see and listen to music and video on the Internet. I do hope that it will become easier and the law will offer a legal way to do that over the Internet." "In the end I hope we will have a situation where the copyright holders, the people who view and listen to music and the people who provide that content can all be happy together," he said. Kenji Kasahara's comments come a day afterÂ YouTube's top executives met with Japanese copyright holdersÂ to hear complaints about the amount of Japanese content on YouTube. They also follow Apple CEOÂ Steve Jobs' open letterÂ for music companies to abandon the idea of digital rights management for downloaded music. To date Mixi hasn't had to contend much with the need to police its user base for copyrighted content. Much of the site consists of user-generated content, of which the vast majority is text and photos. On Monday Mixi started allowing users the ability to upload videos, but in an attempt to head-off copyright violations is limiting single clips to either five minutes in length or 50MB in size. It also requires users to click an agreement that they won't upload copyrighted content. However most Web sites take this same step and it generally doesn't stop users uploading whatever they want. "We hope that we can prevent any violation of copyright," said Kasahara. He said he believes most users want to upload personal content to show to friends and the number of people that might use the platform to share copyrighted content is low.
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CHINA will begin holding jury trials for the first time next year as part of court reforms, it was revealed today. The measures were announced by Chinaâs highest court after a meeting last week on improving
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Tainted hot springs in at least 20 resort towns in Japan include several whose waters had been celebrated for centuries. The disclosures of fraud at the springs have stained one of the most precious rituals of Japanese culture -- group bathing.
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Japan's democracy may work smoothly, but its politics are still dominated by change-resistant dynasties that limit voter choice
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To keep the economy rolling, Japan's new leader must push ahead with reform
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Japan's recovery has been trundling along for more than five years, by some measures making it the longest, if not exactly most spectacular, period of continuous expansion since the war. But if you look at surveys asking ordinary Japanese people how they feel about their own circumstances, you would never guess it.
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Livedoor boss denies securities law breach The unconventional internet businessman at the centre of a Japanese corporate scandal has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him by prosecutors.â¦
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Takafumi Horie, the former CEO of   Internet firm Livedoor Co. who came to symbolize a freewheeling   capitalism that challenged with Japan's cozy corporate norms,   pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of breaking securities   laws.
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Japanese government set out Tuesday fresh steps, including a revision to a disaster relief law, to help survivors hit by a series of deadly earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture as
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Defendants convicted in copyright infringement cases in Hong Kong and Japan were sentenced this week, resulting in jail time and a fine, respectively.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Company says changes were made due to information that came to light during the trial and to address concerns raised by the judge.