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Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker's new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2025
The human cost of Xiaomi¡¯s rapid pivot from smartphones to EVs
Staff across China¡¯s tech sector complain they spend all their time at the office, with several saying that overwork is prevalent in many top firms.
Suspect Qian Ling (center), who is believed to be the group's leader, following his re-arrest, in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 17, 2025
Tokyo police arrest phone scam group leader
The Metropolitan Police Department suspects that the group was behind at least some 500 phone scam cases committed in half a year through January.
The Aichi Prefectural Police headquarters in Nagoya
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 17, 2025
Seven key members of major bank account brokerage ring arrested
The organization is believed to be one of the biggest of its kind in Japan, handling over 1,000 accounts annually for the purpose of money laundering
Smartphones help passengers pass the time on a train near Toyoake, an industrial suburb of Nagoya.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025
Can this city make residents put down their smartphones?
The ordinance, which was approved in a 12-7 vote by the city assembly last week, is largely symbolic, but there is heavy social pressure in Japan to follow official guidelines.
Apple is reopening its redesigned store in Ginza, Tokyo, on Friday. The location holds special importance for the company ¡ª it was its first overseas store, which originally opened in 2003.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2025
Tim Cook arrives in Tokyo as Apple prepares to reopen Ginza store
The Ginza location holds special importance for Apple ¡ª it¡¯s the company¡¯s first overseas store, originally opening in 2003.
People line up to purchase the iPhone 17 at a store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 19, 2025
Apple iPhone 17 launches in Japan
About 30 people lined up at an Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward to get their reserved new phones as soon as possible.
KDDI has launched a new service that allows direct linkups between smartphones and the Starlink satellite communication network.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2025
In shift from price-cutting trend, 911±¬ÁÏÍø telecom firms hike rates as costs rise
Desperate to ensure price hikes are accepted by subscribers, telecom carriers have improved their networks and service quality, and offered extra services.
A novel type of fraud has been reported in Osaka Prefecture in which scammers send smartphones to elderly individuals before swindling them via the devices.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025
Novel smartphone scam targeting elderly emerges in Osaka
Scammers would send elderly people smartphones before swindling them using the devices, according to the Osaka Prefectural Police.
The iPhone Air may be what Apple fans have wanted for years: a device distinct from competitors and packed with feats of hardware engineering.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 11, 2025
Slim iPhone Air may be a design win for Apple, despite analysts' AI doubts
The new handset is the company's slimmest yet, and the biggest change to its lineup in eight years.
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 22, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
Toyoake's cap will not be binding and there will be no penalties incurred for higher usage, according to a draft ordinance.
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 22, 2025
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ¡®sumaho yubi.¡¯
One doctor says the symptoms of smartphone-induced tendonitis and arthritis are on the rise for those in the 20s, 30s and 40s.
A new law set to take effect in December to promote competition in the smartphone app market bans Google and Apple from excluding other companies' app stores from phones that use their operating systems.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 30, 2025
Japan releases guidelines for IT giants regarding smartphone apps
The guidelines prohibit companies like Google and Apple from using data obtained through their operating systems to develop products with competitive advantages.
Three-quarters of the 317 surveyed Dutch high schools reported that the phone ban has had a positive effect on students' concentration.
WORLD
Jul 5, 2025
Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus
Three-quarters of the 317 surveyed high schools reported that the ban has had a positive effect on students' concentration.
Digital transformation minister Masaaki Taira obtains a certification document using a My Number personal identification card installed on an iPhone in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2025
Functions of 911±¬ÁÏÍø My Number card now available on iPhones
The Digital Agency plans to gradually expand the smartphone-compatible functions of the card, including the ability to serve as a health insurance card.
Bicycle riders will be fined for minor traffic violations starting on April 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 18, 2025
Japan to fine riders ?12,000 for using mobile phones while cycling
Fines between ?3,000 ($20) and ?12,000 will be imposed for 113 types of traffic violations.
With people growing increasingly wary of unknown callers and not answering their doors, more and more agencies and pollsters tasked with collecting data are using online surveys, though that comes with its own set of challenges.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 17, 2025
Faced with dwindling response rates, pollsters turn to online surveys for data
Problems with the new wave of online surveys include fresh biases in the data, confusion over questions that a computer cannot address and gaining trust.
Donald Trump Jr. attends a media event at Trump Tower in New York on Monday.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2025
Trump family launches branded mobile phone service in U.S.
The new venture stands to escalate concerns over how the president¡¯s expanding business enterprises conflict with his government responsibilities.
IPhone users will soon be able to access the Mynaportal website for My Number-related administrative tasks and get copies of their public certificates at convenience stores.
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2025
My Number Card functions to be available on iPhones
IPhone users will soon be able to access the Mynaportal website for My Number-related administrative tasks and get copies of their public certificates at convenience stores.
The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 launch event in Seoul in 2023. Studies have shown connections between social media use and eating disorders.
WORLD / Society
Jun 2, 2025
How social media can 'trigger' eating disorders in young people
The glorification of thinness and promotion of fake, dangerous advice about diet and nutrition push the vulnerable toward developing eating disorders.
Samsung and Perplexity are in talks regarding preloading Perplexity¡¯s app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 2, 2025
Samsung nears wide-ranging deal with Perplexity for AI features
Samsung is planning to announce the Perplexity integrations as early as this year, sources said.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan¡¯s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France ¡ª where he had lived since he was a young child ¡ª stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India¡¯s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of 911±¬ÁÏÍø economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo¡¯s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ¡®There¡¯s beauty in what we throw away¡¯
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India¡¯s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ¡®Mishima¡¯ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima¡¯s legacy, Paul Schrader¡¯s biopic ¡°Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters¡± was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Bear attacks have dominated 911±¬ÁÏÍø news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan¡¯s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

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