Embracing the silent voice of secret script: Yuca Ishizuka's
art project in Shanghai encodes the secrets of women's
script'.(ART
In feudal China women were fettered by brutal marriages and foot
bindings and deprived of education. Those repressive conditions were
perhaps one reason that several hundred years ago women in . . .
The rise of Eizo Kobayashi: and how investing is becoming
Itochu's new business line.(UPFRONT)(Cover Story)
DECEMBER 14, 1999, is a date that Eizo Kobayashi will not easily
forget. It was the day that one of the world's largest trading
companies, Itochu Corporation, pinned its hopes on an entirely new . . .
Localization services from a user's point of
view.(INDEPTH)
LOCALIZATION IS A VAGUE, all-encompassing word that can mean
anything from moving the steering wheel of a car from one side to the
other to changing the formatting for a telephone input box. But . . .
No terra firma: a personal account of the Niigata
earthquake.(LOOK!)
AN EARTHQUAKE of magnitude six on the Japanese scale rocked central
Niigata Prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, on October 23.
David Boudreau, a software-consultant based in Nagaoka City, . . .
Atsui!(LastWord)
ATSUI, DESU NE? Atsui, naa. Atsui, yo! Atsuuuu!
Achi. Atsuiii! Or, in English: "It's hot."
You know. I know. We all know. The word is out. So since it's
always a long summer of hot days here in . . .
Intelligent elevators: Japan elevator systems gets a
lift.(Feature)(Cover Story)
RIDE to the top of Shibuya's Cerulian Tower on a clear day and
you can see Mount Fuji beyond the amazing sprawl of Tokyo. The first
thing that strikes most newcomers to Japan is the number of . . .
At the edge of a tempest.(Look!)
THEY USUALLY BEGIN in the summer and strike periodically until well
into autumn, riding the warm southern waters of the Kuroshio (Black
Current), the great river-in-the-sea that flows northeastward . . .
The right recruiter can make all the
difference.(Advertisement)
DURING a robust economic expansion, such as the one we are enjoying
in the summer of 2004, it is tempting for business managers to go all
out and try to hire as many people as they can while the . . .
Steve Bidinger rides in the fast lane.(Bet on the Jockey)
Steve Bidinger was well qualified to start a cosmetics business in
Japan. Certainly the son of famed Shu Uemura, Hiroshi Uemura, thought so
when he sunk a cool [yen]100 million into Bidinger's . . .
Blueprint for a cosmetics empire: NSbrands enters a hot Japanese
market.(InDepth)
AFTER the US, Japan is the second largest market for cosmetics in
the world, a market worth about [yen]1.4 trillion per year. It is a
brand-conscious, fast-moving market, where a favorable review . . .
"Dump REITs" is not the best strategy: the gap between
REIT stocks and real estate stocks.(Investor Insight)
INVESTORS talk about being more selective (defensive) and looking
for lower beta stocks to protect gains made for the year-to-date, but
have apparently not yet acted on this conjecture. We continue . . .
Cleaning up: the high cost of corruption.(UpFront)
THE Asian Development Bank, headquartered in Manila, now estimates
that one-third of public investment in many Asian and Pacific countries
is spent on bribes or lines the pockets of officials. The . . .
Population density and wireless networking: reexamining the world
of wireless peer-to-peer networking.(UpFront)
IN JUNE 2001 JI published Sam Joseph's article "When
Population Density is a Plus." Now, three years later: What is the
state of wireless peer-to-peer networking?
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MANY . . .
Sony cybershot DSC-F88.(G-Spot)
The DSC-F88 has a zoom function that doesn't involve the
physical protrusion of its 300-degree rotating lens, a resolution of 5.1
megapixels, a 1.8-inch LCD monitor and magnifier mode, so users can . . .
Sharp CE-S95EJ.(G-Spot)
The CE-S95EJ not only has 26,000 sample sentences in both English
and Japanese pre-installed in its database, but it also boasts a
"translator memory" that creates and stores new sample
sentences. . . .
IO Data DVR-UEP16W.(G-Spot)
The DVR-UEP16W, which users can attach to their PCs, can record
data onto DVDs faster than any other machine, according to IO
Data's Web site. The DVD drive has a 16X recording mode for
one-layered . . .
Panasonic BE-EHE432, BE-EHE632.(G-Spot)
These new bicycles, equipped with lithium ion batteries to help
bikers ride uphill with weighty items, can keep on running for as far as
76 km. They weigh a mere 23.7kg--among the lightest of the . . .
Sony HMP-A1.(G-Spot)
The HMP-A1 has a 20GB hard disk, so users can copy movies or still
image data from their PCs, digital video cameras, et al, and play them
on the passport-sized HMP-A1. This compact multiplayer . . .
Apple iPod mini.(G-Spot)
The iPod mini stores over 1,000 tunes in its hard disk--the
smallest music player in the world as of July 7, according to Apple
Japan's Web site. The iPod mini, with 4 gigabytes of . . .
Daylight savings in Japan?(Buzz)
FOR OVER A DECADE, Tokyo resident Mike King has sought to convince
the Japanese government to introduce daylight savings time in Japan.
Over the past three years he has resorted to directly . . .
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