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Japan: Perseid Meteor Shower Observed Across Country 3

The Perseid meteor shower reached its peak on Monday night, August 12, and many shooting stars were observed across Japan.

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Japan: Perseid Meteor Shower Observed Across Country

The Perseid meteor shower reached its peak on Monday night, August 12, and many shooting stars were observed across Japan.

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Japan: Typhoon Maria Makes Landfall, Brings Heavy Rainfall To Iwate 2

Typhoon Maria made landfall near Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Monday morning, August 12, bringing torrential rainfall. The rain collapsed roads, flooded houses, and swelled rivers. An evacuation order was issued for Kuji City and several other municipalities.

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Japan: Typhoon Maria Makes Landfall, Brings Heavy Rainfall To Iwate

Typhoon Maria made landfall near Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan Monday morning, August 12 bringing torrential rainfall. The rain collapsed roads, flooded houses, and swelled rivers. An evacuation order was issued for Kuji City and several other municipalities.

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Japan: Strong Earthquake Strikes Off Kyushu Triggering Tsunami Advisory 6

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Kyushu Thursday afternoon, August 8 triggering a tsunami advisory for the island's east and southern coast and the southern coast of the neighboring island of Shikoku. This video shows overhead signs shaking after the quake at Yakuin Station in central Fukuoka City.

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Japan: Strong Earthquake Strikes Off Kyushu Triggering Tsunami Advisory

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Kyushu Thursday afternoon, August 8 triggering a tsunami advisory for the island's east and southern coast and the southern coast of the neighboring island of Shikoku. This video shows ceiling lights swinging after the quake inside a shopping mall at Kumamoto Station in Kumamoto City.

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Google Japan President Okumura

Google Japan President Shinji Okuyama gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 19, 2024.

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Google to launch AI project to solve regional issues

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (L) and Google LLC Vice President Cris Turner shake hands in the western Japan city on June 19, 2024, after the U.S. tech giant the same day announced the launch of an initiative in collaboration with the University of Tokyo to use generative AI to address challenges faced by local communities in Japan.

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Google to launch AI project to solve regional issues

Google LLC announces the launch of an initiative in collaboration with the University of Tokyo to use generative AI to address challenges faced by local communities in Japan, at a technology conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2024.

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Google to launch AI project to solve regional issues

University of Tokyo professor Yutaka Matsuo, a leading scholar of artificial intelligence and deep learning, speaks at a Google LLC technology conference in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, at which the U.S. tech giant announced the launch of an initiative in collaboration with the university to use generative AI to address challenges faced by local communities in Japan.

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Japan: Lifelike Robot Horse Amazes Crowd At JRA 70th Anniversary Event In Tokyo

The Japan Racing Association (JRA), which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, held a collaborative event with the Daimaru Tokyo, a department store adjacent to Tokyo Station. A lifelike robot horse of 'Sodashi,' a white racehorse that retired last year, was displayed from May 22 to June 4, attracting many visitors.

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Japan: Dust Devil Sweeps Across Schoolyard During Sports Festival

A dust devil popped up and swept across a schoolyard in Morioka, northeast Japan on Saturday, May 25 surprising many students and parents who had gathered for a sports festival.

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Japan: Wildfire Erupts In Nanyo, Yamagata

A forest fire broke out in Nanyo, Yamagata on Saturday, May 4 and continued to spread on the 6th. Approximately 95 hectares of forest have been burned as of writing. One man was reported with burns on his leg along with damage on buildings in the area.

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[Breaking News]Google pressed to reform search ad practices in Japan

An official of the Japan Fair Trade Commission holds a press briefing in Tokyo on April 22, 2024, after the antitrust watchdog asked Google LLC to voluntarily reform its business practices after finding that it imposed unfair restrictions in its search advertising agreement with Yahoo Japan.(Kyodo)

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Google pressed to reform search ad practices in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, April 22 Kyodo - An official of the Japan Fair Trade Commission holds a press briefing in Tokyo on April 22, 2024, after the antitrust watchdog asked Google LLC to voluntarily reform its business practices after finding that it imposed unfair restrictions in its search advertising agreement with Yahoo Japan. (Kyodo)

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Google pressed to reform search ad practices in Japan

An official of the Japan Fair Trade Commission holds a press briefing in Tokyo on April 22, 2024, after the antitrust watchdog asked Google LLC to voluntarily reform its business practices after finding that it imposed unfair restrictions in its search advertising agreement with Yahoo Japan.

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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Strikes Off Western Shikoku Coast 2

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck western Japan on Wednesday night, April 17 with the epicenter in the Bungo Channel, a strait separating Shikoku and Kyushu islands. Shaking was felt in wide areas across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency later upgraded the quake to 6.6 magnitude. The video, filmed in Uwajima, Ehime, shows people coming out of buildings during an aftershock five minutes after the main jolt. Screams can also be heard.

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Japan: Cherry Blossoms Begin To Douse Tokyo In Pink 3

The cherry blossoms, or sakura, are blooming and starting to bathe the capital city Tokyo in pink. The trees' blooming was officially announced on March 29 for central Tokyo and is expected to reach full bloom around April 4. Dependent on the weather, locals and tourists alike are expected to visit famous parks and viewing locations to do "hanami", literally "viewing of flowers" in Japanese.

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Japan: Strong Winds Blow Signboard Off Building In Ikebukuro, Tokyo

A winter low-pressure system brought strong winds to the Kanto region on Tuesday, February 27, with high waves hitting coastal areas, gusts knocking down streetlights and causing walls to topple over in Tokyo. The video shows winds blowing signboard off a building in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and firefighters at site dealing with the incident.

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Japan: Strong Winds Blow Wall Panels Off Structure At Construction Site In Tokyo

A winter low-pressure system brought strong winds to the Kanto region on Tuesday, February 27, with high waves hitting coastal areas, gusts knocking down streetlights and causing walls to topple over in Tokyo. The video shows winds blowing wall panels off a structure on a construction site in Tokyo. Some of the panels fell on vehicles on the adjacent parking lot.

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Japan: JAXA Successfully Launches Next-Generation H3 Rocket Into Space 6

JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) launched its new flagship H3 rocket into space in a second attempt on Saturday, February 17, and announced that it confirmed the rocket has reached orbit as planned. The H3 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima at 9:22 a.m., JST.

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Japan: JAXA Successfully Launches Next-Generation H3 Rocket Into Space 7

JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) launched its new flagship H3 rocket into space in a second attempt on Saturday, February 17, and announced that it confirmed the rocket has reached orbit as planned. The H3 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima at 9:22 a.m., JST.

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Japan: JAXA Successfully Launches Next-Generation H3 Rocket Into Space 5

JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) launched its new flagship H3 rocket into space in a second attempt on Saturday, February 17, and announced that it confirmed the rocket has reached orbit as planned. The H3 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima at 9:22 a.m., JST.

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Google Cloud Japan signage and logo

Google Cloud Japan signage and logo. Taken at the 2023 International Robot Exhibition.=Date:November 29, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Japan's antitrust watchdog probes Google

An official (L) from Japan's antitrust watchdog, the Japan Fair Trade Commission, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 23, 2023, in Tokyo, announcing that it has begun an investigation into technology giant Google LLC for allegedly pushing smartphone makers into using its search platform by default on their devices.

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Japan's lunar explorer robot successfully runs on dunes

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A lunar explorer robot developed by Hakuto, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Luna XPrize that is led by Tohoku University Professor Kazuya Yoshida, makes a successful test run on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2014. A total of 18 teams are competing in the contest, with a grand prize of 20 million dollars for the first team to land safely on the lunar surface, move 500 meters, and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth.

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Iwate eyeing use of 'Ingress' game to promote tourism

MORIOKA, Japan - Google Inc.'s "Ingress" free location-based turf war game, which the Iwate prefectural government is considering using to promote tourism, appears on a tablet screen in this undated photo.

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Google shoots disaster-affected area from off shore

KESENNUMA, Japan - A member of Google Inc.'s Street View project operates a boat with equipment to shoot views of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from the sea on June 18, 2014.

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Google Chromecast available in Japan market

TOKYO, Japan - Google Inc.'s Chromecast, a device to play Internet content on television, is seen in this file photo. The product became available in Japan from May 28, 2014.

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Google Nexus 7

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds the Nexus 7 in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2013, as U.S. Internet search giant Google Inc. said the same day it will launch the Nexus 7, the latest version of its tablet computer, in Japan.

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Online collection of A-bomb museums' items

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (C) cuts the ribbon during a ceremony with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the background in the city of Hiroshima on Aug. 19, 2013, as Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled the same day an online collection of items displayed at museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki documenting the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of the cities.

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Ruling on Google auto search feature

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyers for the plaintiff hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 15, 2013, after the Tokyo District Court ordered U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. to delete terms from its autocomplete search function in connection with a Japanese man who says the feature violated his privacy.

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Ruling on Google auto search feature

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Google Inc.'s autocomplete search function to predict words and auxiliary information in the process of entering characters. The Tokyo District Court on April 15, 2013, ordered the U.S. Internet giant to delete terms from the function in connection with a Japanese man who says the feature violated his privacy.

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Google names Japan arm as disaster recovery center in Asia

TOKYO, Japan - David Drummond, a senior vice president of Google Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 12, 2012. Drummond said Google designated its Japanese arm as a center for providing support for disaster recovery, the first such base outside the United States.

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Google Nexus 7

TOKYO, Japan - Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt makes a presentation in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2012, as Google began selling its Nexus 7 tablet computer in Japan the same day.

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Google Nexus 7

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds the Nexus 7 in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2012, as U.S. Internet search giant Google Inc. launched its own tablet computer in Japan the same day.

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Google, Twitter to analyze Net data to help disaster victims

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoe Makino, partnership director of the Japanese unit of social media Twitter, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2012. The Japanese units of U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. and Twitter said the same day they will analyze data circulated on the Internet after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan to explore ways to support disaster victims more effectively.

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Damages suit against Google over Street View service nixed

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows a camera on a vehicle believed to be taking images for Google Inc.'s Street View service in Tokyo's Minato Ward in 2009. The Fukuoka High Court on July 13, 2012, upheld a lower court decision that turned down a Japanese woman's 600,000 yen damages suit against the Japan subsidiary of the U.S. search engine operator for allegedly infringing on her privacy through photo shots and their release on the Street View service.

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Damages suit against Google over Street View service nixed

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows a vehicle believed to be taking images for Google Inc.'s Street View service in Tokyo's Minato Ward in 2009. The license plate is made obscure. The Fukuoka High Court on July 13, 2012, upheld a lower court decision that turned down a Japanese woman's 600,000 yen damages suit against the Japanese subsidiary of the U.S. search engine operator for allegedly infringing on her privacy through photo shots and their release on the Street View service.

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Google ordered to suspend autocomplete search function

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Hiroyuki Tomita speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2012, about a petition filed by his client and approved by the Tokyo District Court demanding Internet giant Google Inc. suspend its autocomplete search function, which the client says violated his privacy. The court's March 19 decision is believed to be the first in a case where a court has ordered the suspension of the function that suggests words before a user completes typing a word or a phrase, Tomita said.

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Panasonic's tablet computers for corporate users

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the 7.0-inch (L) and 10.1-inch display models of Panasonic Corp.'s new BizPad tablet computers for corporate users to be sold from late December 2011. The consumer electronics giant said on Oct. 12, 2011, that the new tablet computers will run on Google Inc.'s Android 3.2 operating system and will not break even if the 7.0-inch model is dropped from a height of 120 centimeters and the 10.1-inch model from a height of 80 centimeters because of their shockproof structures.

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Moon rover by Tohoku University

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuya Yoshida (L), professor of Tohoku University, presents a prototype of a moon rover in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. The Space Robotics Lab at university's Aerospace Engineering Department has been developing the moon rover to participate in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, international competition of lunar exploration technology to award to the first privately funded teams with a total of $30 million in prizes, which expires when all prizes are claimed or at the end of 2015.

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Google Street View in disaster areas

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shigeru Suganuma (L), mayor of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, shakes hands with an official of Google Inc. in the northeastern Japan city on July 8, 2011, in front of a vehicle used to take Street View pictures. Google said in a press conference in Kesennuma it will take Street View pictures of areas in five Japanese prefectures hit by the March quake and tsunami.

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Google Street View to show inside A-Bomb Dome

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the A-Bomb Dome, a relic of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and a tricycle carrying a camera system to take images inside the dome for the Google Street View in Hiroshima on March 10, 2011. Google Inc. of the United States said the same day it will provide the images soon on Street View.

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2011 Japan Prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Prize laureates (from L) Toshio Hirano, dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, professor emeritus at Osaka University, and Kenneth Thompson, an engineer at Google Inc., pose for a photo in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2011, as the year's winner of the Japan Prize Foundation award. Kishimoto and Hirano discovered interleukin 6, leading to the development of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, while Thompson, together with fellow award recipient Dennis Ritchie, developed the UNIX operating system.

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Emobile to sell HTC Aria smartphone with Android OS

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the HTC Aria smartphone running Google Inc.'s Android operating software, which cellphone carrier Emobile Ltd. will begin selling in Japan on Dec. 17, 2010. Weighing 115 grams, the phone will be sold for 39,580 yen with a basic contract.

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Yahoo Japan president on Google tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp. President Masahiro Inoue speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2010. Inoue said Yahoo Japan will continue to compete with Google Inc. even after adopting Google's Internet search engine and online advertisement technology.

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Yahoo Japan to adopt Google's search technology

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Inoue, president of Yahoo Japan Corp., speaks about a plan to adopt Google Inc.'s Internet-search technology during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 27, 2010. Inoue said the alliance will help improve user-friendliness and increase growth potential.

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NTT Docomo to release Android-based smartphone

TOKYO, Japan - NTT Docomo Inc. President Ryuji Yamada speaks at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2010. Docomo will launch a smartphone in April that will be its second handset based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system.

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Google webcasts news programs of TV Asahi, TBS via YouTube

TOKYO, Japan - Google Inc. Vice President David Eun speaks at a news conference at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2009. He announced that Google has concluded license agreements with TV Asahi Corp. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. to webcast their news and other programs through its YouTube video sharing site.