Housing Bubbles: America vs. Japan
AS FALLING house prices and tightening credit squeeze America’s economy, some worry that the country may suffer a decade of stagnation, as Japan did after its bubble burst in the early 1990s. Japan’s property bubble was also fuelled by ...

Analyst: Blame Sony Japan for PSP slump
Das Gamer has posted a thought-provoking piece on the current (gloomy) state of PSP outside of Japan, where game releases on the platform can be heard grinding slowly to a halt. The site spoke with games industry analyst extraordinaire, ...

Nice Modern Train in Japan
with the results looking nicer than most nurseries, the japanese have taken the idea of ‘child-friendly public transport’ to the next level with these 2 beauties, both designed by eiji mitooka. he was the artistic force behind ‘omoden’ ...

The Dark Knight Bombs in Japan
Just when you thought that public opinion on Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was all but unanimously positive, here comes the wacky Japanese market to put their own spin on things. After its second week in theatres, the movie is ...

Karaoke Joysound Wii dated in Japan, where it will probably stay
With the first two now confirmed for North America, that means (as expected) that the karaoke game will be staying in Japan. The silver lining: if you're feeling adventurous and refuse to let such obstacles prevent you from warbling to ...

Windows Home Server Launches in Japan Tomorrow
Streaming21, a leading solution provider of seamless on-demand service platform and Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) will bring Windows Home Server products to the Japanese market with a Japanese language version. ...

Japanese Arcade Mania
Each sub section has an history of its particular type of gaming, and there are mini-interviews with game makers and notable Japan-based expert gamers. These expert gamers explain why they’re obsessed with that particular type of game, ...

Sony Japan’s new game - look familiar?
... Nintendo’s lawyers would almost certainly be on the phone to Sony’s lot, with the above footage looking rather familiar to fans of what’s officially Wii’s Fourth Most Underrated Game, Endless Ocean (or Forever Blue in Japan). ...

Japan to Spend $4 Billion Next Year to Reduce Carbon Emissions ...
photo: Maki_C30D via flickr With the recent sobering news that not only is the trend in the Arctic indicating that climate change is happening more quickly than models have indicated, but also that permafrost in the region contains ...

Day 3 - Kyoto Bound - Kyoto, Kinki, Japan
Because of this little incident our minds where elsewhere, and we left the hotel with our passports sitting on the counter (because you need to show them by law now when checking into a Japanese hotel). ...

Japan unveils economic stimulus plan
Japan's government announced an economic stimulus package worth $A125 billion to tackle the fastest inflation in a decade and the looming threat of a recession.

Sony's 1000000:1 contrast BRAVIAs launch in Japan this October
Filed under: Displays, HDTV. Sony's XBR6 / XBR7 / XBR8 models are still waiting in the wings for their US debut, but along with HDTVs that push the extremes in thin and fast, the company announced these more conventional models it's ...

Looking back at the Beijing Olympics
With the Olympics over for another four years and with Japan getting a reasonable haul of medals, Macromill performed a survey into post-Olympic views. Demographics. Over the 25th and 26th of August 2008 516 members of the Macromill ...

Looking back at the Beijing Olympics
Japan's government announced an economic stimulus package worth more than 100 billion US dollars Friday to tackle the fastest inflation in a decade and the looming threat of a recession.