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Tajikistan blocks scores of websites as election...
Tajikistan blocked access to more than 100 local and foreign websites on Dec. 25. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
DUSHANBE--Tajikistan blocked access to more than 100 local and foreign websites on Dec. 25, in what a government source said was a rehearsal of silencing critics before next...
Coke, Samsung pull Vietnam site ads
From the "Zing.vn" website
HANOI, Vietnam--Coca-Cola and Samsung have pulled their advertising from a popular Vietnamese website notorious for providing unlicensed downloads of Western and local songs,...
Students offer info about post-quake efforts in 22...
Members of the student group behind the "Tohoku10×26windows" website, which gives information about the post-quake lives of people living in Tohoku (Takuya Kitazawa)
Twenty students at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies have produced a multi-lingual website about areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Recalled products to be listed on central database
Employees of the Consumer Affairs Agency deal with a phone call from a consumer on a product in Tokyo. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Consumer Affairs Agency will set up a centralized database to keep track of records on recalled products, which are now scattered among ministries and agencies.
Quake survivors share experiences via websites
Website of “Nagahora Genkimura” (Photo by Go Yamashita)
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--People living in areas that were devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake have been reaching out to one another and the nation through a flurry...
China to ban movies which fan social instability
BEIJING--China is seeking to ban movies which stir up social instability, glamorize terrorism or promote opposition to the law, according to proposed new rules unveiled on Dec. ...
METI launches infographics website
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has set up a website offering easy-to-understand visualizations of some of its data in an effort to improve communication with the...
ANIME NEWS: New website to provide info on media...
The Media Arts Current Contents website (The Asahi Shimbun)
Media Arts Current Contents, a government-affiliated portal on media arts covering manga, anime and videogames, was launched recently.
Book recalls disaster areas before March 11
Nanaka Shimotani shows a photo collection, titled "Tohoku Memorial Gallery," in Tokyo on Oct. 24. (Ippei Nakata)
Memories and images of the picturesque areas in northeastern Japan before they were destroyed in the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami have been preserved in a...
Nico Nico Douga website alternative to conventional ...
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan appears on an online live program by the Nico Nico Douga video-sharing website in January. (Yoshinori Mizuno)
Newspapers and television used to rule the media world, but the rapid growth of the Internet has seen more consumers turn to real-time websites for their news and entertainment ...
Woman tries to keep her evacuated hometown alive
Emiko Ota holds a handmade booklet aimed at keeping evacuees together. (Hiroyuki Takei)
SAITAMA--As evacuees from the zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant spread out, Emiko Ota became concerned that residents of her hometown of Namie, Fukushima...
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