Internet

As the crisis started to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, tech-savvy individuals on both sides of the Pacific banded together to help fill the void of information...

HANOI, Vietnam--Vietnam's leaders sought to boost their flagging legitimacy by asking the public for suggestions on constitutional reform. What they got instead was rare open...

KYOTO--Alarmed at how many young people are falling prey to cybercrimes, Kyoto prefectural police and a university in the city are offering advice through a medium they think...

PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second...

Police on Feb. 10 arrested a 30-year-old man in Tokyo on suspicion of spreading a computer virus that led to the wrongful arrests of four men, after threats of mass murder and...

Social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook provide online connections between friends and family, but for some people, they have also emerged as a new source of...

Pyongyang is eager to hold talks with the Japanese administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who made a name for himself by taking a tough stance against North Korea, a U.S. ...

Those wanting to believe that China's new leaders are sincere about pledges for reform have had their optimism jolted by a further tightening of internet controls, South China...

Editor's note: Hajimu Takeda, a staff writer in the international news department of The Asahi Shimbun, recently visited South Korea where he exchanged tweets and met with...

The manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi is known for his activism. His comic strips try to counter what he sees as an overly self-deprecating attitude toward Japanese history.

BEIJING--China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about...

BEIJING--China may require internet users to register with their real names when signing up to network providers, state media said on Dec. 25, extending a policy already in...

BEIJING--Internet chatter in China in 2012 was heavily dominated by the territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands and related anti-Japanese protests, a study of a popular...

SEOUL--South Korean election campaigns using social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook have intensified, unlike in Japan, where the use of the Internet for...

SEOUL--Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame--only a righteous...