Technology

It's a rare move in a country with no legal structure for homeschooling - but the gamer and his parents stand by the family's decision.
It's not just old people who are grousing. Even young Japanese say they resent restaurants sucking up their battery life and bandwidth.
A recent social media post has sparked debate over a longstanding rule of smartphone use that has no basis in fact.
The Children & Families Agency says it's giving up on the system after experts determined the agency didn't have enough data.
At least one of two Japanese kids rescued recently was kidnapped by scammers via a growing recruitment avenue: online games such as Fortnite.
Resellers appear to have struck again in Japan - this time, causing chaos in a rush to buy up the new NVIDIA RTX 5080/5090 GPUs.
As of March 2025, Japan will eliminate the "PIN bypass" procedure that's allowed customers to get away without entering their secret code.
How do you keep combini in Japan operating 24 hours a day during a labor shortage? Lawson thinks it has the answer.
Waymo is partnering with two companies in Japan to pilot self-driving "robotaxis" in seven cities in Tokyo next year. The experiment could provide more taxi capacity in the face of a chronic labor shortage. But is it safe?

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