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BIZ BRIEF: Canon unveils PowerShot SX280 HS digital ...
Canon Inc. announced April 10 the introduction to the Japanese market of the new PowerShot SX280 HS compact digital camera, which incorporates a powerful optical zoom lens and...
‘Running' daikon more than just a garden-variety...
A daikon radish "runs away" from a dog in a photo posted by Minako Shibata in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture. (Provided by Minako Shibata)
TATSUNO, Hyogo Prefecture--A daikon radish shaped like a running human being is the new star of promotional material for products from Hyogo Prefecture.
TEPCO failed to respond to dire warning of...
Radioactive water leaks into the sea on April 2, 2011, from a crack in a pit wall near the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. dawdled on measures to prevent leaks of highly radioactive water during the Fukushima nuclear crisis, despite the plant manager’s warning that “we...
Fukushima disaster-response video now online
Images of TEPCO's in-house video footages (Provided by TEPCO)
Video of how Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant staff responded to the unfolding disaster is now available for public viewing after the operator posted selected footage on its...
BIZ BRIEF: Canon's new network cameras offer HD...
Canon Inc. and Canon Marketing Japan Inc. announced on Sept. 11 the introduction in Japan of the company’s first lineup of network cameras supporting full HD video...
UPDATE: Video shows protesters tossing bricks at...
A Hong Kong activist hurls bricks at a Japan Coast Guard vessel off the Senkaku Islands on Aug. 15. (Provided by Japan Coast Guard)
The Japan Coast Guard released video footage showing protesters aboard a Hong Kong fishing boat hurling bricks at two patrol vessels as they attempted to make an unauthorized...
TEPCO video shows delay in using seawater to cool...
Videos released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Provided by TEPCO)
A Japanese nuclear power company hesitated before using corrosive seawater to cool the No. 2 reactor at the stricken Fukushima plant because it hoped it could be used again,...
Japan utility releases videos from nuclear crisis
Videos released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on August 6
Newly released videos taken during the crisis last year at Japan's crippled nuclear plant show the emergency command center shaking violently when hydrogen exploded at one...
TEPCO will relax conditions on release of nuke...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. head office in Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Bowing to pressure from industry minister Yukio Edano, Tokyo Electric Power Co. will loosen restrictions on media viewing of videos of in-house meetings during the onset of the ...
TEPCO restrictions on coverage of nuclear crisis...
TEPCO's nameplate at its head office in Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s plans to impose tight restrictions on reporters covering the release of videos of its meetings in the early stages of the Fukushima nuclear crisis...
Industry minister takes TEPCO to task for...
Industry minister Yukio Edano (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Industry minister Yukio Edano took Tokyo Electric Power Co. to task for its refusal to hand over videos of teleconferences by senior utility officials during the early days of...
BIZ BRIEF: Toshiba unveils video streaming hardware
Toshiba Corp. announced hardware that will directly stream video from data storage devices onto the Internet without accessing the CPUs or memory of Internet servers.
Survivor decides to share video of tsunami...
A tsunami floods downtown Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, at 3:24 p.m. on March 11, 2011. Only several minutes earlier, a car was traveling down the road pictured in the foreground, according to Eiji Yoshida, who videotaped the scene. Yoshida's house stood in a residential area pictured in the background. (Eiji Yoshida)
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture— Eiji Yoshida had long kept secret his video footage of the tsunami engulfing buildings in this northeastern city. For the 68-year-old former...
Disaster-hit children convey messages to the world
A sixth-grader of an elementary school records near the Kitakamigawa river after  receiving instructions from a supporter. His grandfather, who died in the March 11 tsuneami, loved the river. (Provided by the Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies)
One child sent words of encouragement to his father overseas. A girl lamented about canceled school activities. And another child told his grandfather, who died in the March 11 ...
ANIME NEWS: Warner Home Video introduces on-demand...
Warner On Demand, an online video streaming service operated by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.'s Warner Home Video, introduced "The Edge" label for animated shorts earlier...
ANIME NEWS: Upstart Anime Bunko label to release...
Anime Bunko, an ambitious video label jointly established by anime studio ufotable Inc. and anime company Aniplex Inc. in March, will release its first three titles beginning...
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