The scene has become chillingly familiar. A group of young Japanese was found dead from asphyxiation in a sealed car, charcoal stoves still smoking beside them — thought to be the latest victims in an ...

Here's Nonai Maker's analysis of my brain. According to the diagram, I have money in the forefront of my mind, love at the top, secrets at the back, worries at the bottom, and a vast sea of desire ...

Websites originally had a variety of designs, but as web standards and other standards were standardized, the number of designs decreased. Furthermore, with the spread of smartphones, screen size and ...

What you see isn't always what you get, especially online. Authorities in Japan say more people are being duped by false ...

Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal ...

T O K Y O,   Jan. 25 -- Japan suffered an embarrassment today when hackers penetrated two government Web sites, leaving a message in one of them criticising the Japanese government’s position on ...

TOKYO — Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else’s. It’s got pictures of the Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs ...

In a culture that prizes decorum, Hiroyuki Nishimura's Web video site and bulletin board are a chaotic — and sometimes obscene — free-for-all. Illustration: Christoph Niemann I'm sitting in a sterile ...

The Land of the Rising Sun has fascinated travelers for centuries, and this summer is no exception. Some people, particularly in Tokyo, may speak English, but it’s best to learn a few basic phrases in ...