May 11, 2013
The wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received a flood of criticism on her Facebook page after posting a message about attending a South Korean musical.
April 20, 2013
The ban on the use of the Internet for election campaigns will finally be lifted in Japan, starting with the Upper House poll in July.
March 10, 2013
Japan has produced many of the world's top companies, but its dynamism is now waning as its electronics makers decline. As a venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley, I...
February 17, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES--Facebook Inc. said on Feb. 15 hackers had infiltrated some of its employees' laptops in recent weeks, making the world's No.1 social network the...
February 07, 2013
Sony is finalizing development work on its PlayStation 4, a games console it hopes will help it recover market share against increased competition from smartphones and rival...
February 07, 2013
From forestalling a bad press to predicting the next outbreak of head colds, businesses are finding increasingly innovative uses for Twitter's wealth of user-generated content.
January 29, 2013
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...
January 26, 2013
KARACHI, Pakistan--More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most...
January 07, 2013
Editor’s note: Yasuyuki Sasaki, a staff writer in the city news department of The Asahi Shimbun, interviewed an officer at the Maritime Self-Defense Force about tweets that...
January 01, 2013
An increasing number of companies in Japan pitching their products are moving beyond splashing their ads and logos across billboards and magazine pages.
December 29, 2012
Social networking functions were added to a revamped Japacon, a Japanese-English content portal website that promotes the latest TV programs, films and anime from Japan.
December 07, 2012
The social media steamroller credited with helping Barack Obama win re-election as U.S. president is playing a bigger role than ever before in Japanese politics as the country...
November 09, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The sister of a Malaysian man who has been charged with insulting a state sultan on Facebook said Nov. 9 that he is innocent and will lodge a complaint...
October 30, 2012
DEPOK, Indonesia--When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever...
August 21, 2012
HANOI -- Farmer Le Dung and his fellow villagers stockpiled rocks and petrol bombs to battle police trying to take over their land for a luxury property development near...
July 06, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Rikuzentakata, a city devastated by last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, set up an official Facebook page for its “miracle...
July 04, 2012
YOKOHAMA--With 100 portraits of people of various nationalities and faiths praying for victims of last year's Great East Japan Earthquake, artist Maki Matsuzawa wanted to...
May 21, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the ...
March 30, 2012
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on March 29 when he hosted a young billionaire...
March 17, 2012
The number of active monthly users in Japan of Facebook topped the 10 million mark, company officials said on March 16.