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Deer cuisine shown as 'Dish of Year' for 2014

TOKYO, Japan - A sample of "gibier" wild game cuisine, named the inaugural "Dish of the Year" for 2014, is exhibited in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2014, at the office of Gurunavi Inc., a restaurant guide portal operator. The dish is "savoy cabbage cannelloni stuffed with Hokkaido deer meat boiled in red wine."

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Wild game cuisine named 'Dish of Year' for 2014

TOKYO, Japan - TV script writer Kundo Koyama (far L) joins other people to sit at a table for deer meet dishes at the office of Tokyo's Gurunavi Inc., a restaurant guide portal operator, on Dec. 4, 2014, at an event marking the selection of wild game cuisine, known as "gibier," as the inaugural "Dish of the Year" for 2014.

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Rakuten buying U.S. shopping portal Ebates

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani (L), chief executive officer of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc., and Kevin Johnson, CEO of U.S. cash-back shopping portal Ebates Inc., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2014. Rakuten said it is buying the San Francisco-based firm in October for about $1 billion or 105 billion yen to strengthen its international operations.

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Naha city's Internet service for tourists

NAHA, Japan - Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga shows the city's soon-to-be-launched portal site NAHAPO, offering up-to-date local information, at Naha city hall in Okinawa Prefecture in July 2013. The Okinawa Prefecture capital will start offering free Wi-Fi service, available in English, Chinese and Korean as well as in Japanese, at major tourist destinations at the same time as it launches the portal site Aug. 4.

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Kyodo's trilingual website for Japan info

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the trilingual website for accessing the latest information on Japan that Kyodo News launched on Dec. 1, 2011. The website, entitled Japan Portal (http://www.japanportal.jp), allows users outside Japan to access information on topics such as tourist spots and reconstruction from the March earthquake and tsunami in English, Chinese and Korean.

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Portal introducing Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Chinese-language portal that Kyodo News, in cooperation with the Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency, launched on Aug. 25, 2011, on Xinhua's website aimed at introducing Japan to Chinese people. The URL of the portal is http://rbdg.xinhuanet.com.

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Baidu eyes ad service linked to search terms in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Chen Haiteng, the 41-year-old president of the Japanese arm of Baido.com Inc., has told Kyodo News that the Chinese search engine provider Baidu Inc. is planning to start targeted advertising services linked to search terms in Japan. Baido.com is China's biggest search engine portal and the third-largest in the world.

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China's Baidu launches Japanese-language search engine

TOKYO, Japan - Robin Li, chairman of China's largest Internet portal site Baidu.com Inc., speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 23. Li announced that Baidu has just launched a Japanese-language search engine.

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Portal site '47NEWS' presented at World Newspaper Congress

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Akishige Tada, chairman of Press Net Japan Co., operator of Japan's portal site 47NEWS (http://www.47news.jp.), speaks at the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town on June 5 to introduce the portal, which was launched last December with reports provided by Kyodo News and 52 local newspapers in Japan.

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Some local gov'ts allow the use credit cards to pay taxes

TOKYO, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru pays his auto tax by credit card via Internet portal site Yahoo! Japan.

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Fake Kyodo story on China invasion of Okinawa on pseudo Yahoo site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pseudo Yahoo! News website where reports of a story carrying a fake Kyodo News credit and falsely announcing that Chinese warplanes had invaded Japanese airspace over Okinawa were posted on Oct. 19. The site, using a logo mimicking that of Internet portal Yahoo! Japan's news site, carries the fabricated article saying that the Pentagon had announced the ''invasion'' early Oct. 16, which the faux report says took place over China's gas exploration projects in the East China Sea.

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and state minister for portal privatization Heizo Takenaka express their appreciation after a House of Representatives ad hoc committee approved a set of bills to privatize Japan Post on July 4.

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Yahoo Japan debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - (From R to L, front) Yahoo Japan President Masahiro Inoue, Tokyo Stock Exchange President Masaaki Tsuchida, and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yan pose for photos as Yahoo Japan Corp., Japan's leading Internet portal site operator, debuted on Oct. 28 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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Yahoo Japan to put up 1st full-page ad on Web site

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp. will for the first time put up a full-page advertisement for a new product on its Web site from June 16 to 30, in association with Asahi Breweries Ltd., Japan's leading Internet portal said June 14.

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Man arrested over fake Yahoo site in Japan's first 'phishing' ca

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuma Yabuno, a 42-year-old computer system engineer, was arrested June 13 on suspicion of creating a replica (shown in photo) of Yahoo Japan Corp.'s website to steal personal information from users of the nation's largest portal site. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said this is the first arrest for phishing in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and state minister for portal privatization Heizo Takenaka express their appreciation after a House of Representatives ad hoc committee approved a set of bills to privatize Japan Post on July 4. (Kyodo)

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China's Baidu launches Japanese-language search engine

TOKYO, Japan - Robin Li, chairman of China's largest Internet portal site Baidu.com Inc., speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 23. Li announced that Baidu has just launched a Japanese-language search engine. (Kyodo)

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Baidu eyes ad service linked to search terms in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Chen Haiteng, the 41-year-old president of the Japanese arm of Baido.com Inc., has told Kyodo News that the Chinese search engine provider Baidu Inc. is planning to start targeted advertising services linked to search terms in Japan. Baido.com is China's biggest search engine portal and the third-largest in the world. (Kyodo)

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Yahoo Japan adds image search function to auction site

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp., operator of Japan's top Internet portal site Yahoo! Japan, said July 18 it has added a new technology to its auction site (photo) that allows users to search for images quickly on the Internet. It is the first time that an image search function has been introduced on Internet auction sites, the company said. The new technology, developed by office automation equipment maker Ricoh Co., can search for images that have similar patterns, colors and other characteristics among vast amounts of images on the Internet.

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Portal site '47NEWS' presented at World Newspaper Congress

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Akishige Tada, chairman of Press Net Japan Co., operator of Japan's portal site 47NEWS (http://www.47news.jp.), speaks at the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town on June 5 to introduce the portal, which was launched last December with reports provided by Kyodo News and 52 local newspapers in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Portal site '47NEWS' presented at World Newspaper Congress

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Akishige Tada, chairman of Press Net Japan Co., operator of Japan's portal site 47NEWS (http://www.47news.jp.), speaks at the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town on June 5 to introduce the portal, which was launched last December with reports provided by Kyodo News and 52 local newspapers in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Fake Kyodo story on China invasion of Okinawa on pseudo Yahoo si

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pseudo Yahoo! News website where reports of a story carrying a fake Kyodo News credit and falsely announcing that Chinese warplanes had invaded Japanese airspace over Okinawa were posted on Oct. 19. The site, using a logo mimicking that of Internet portal Yahoo! Japan's news site, carries the fabricated article saying that the Pentagon had announced the ''invasion'' early Oct. 16, which the faux report says took place over China's gas exploration projects in the East China Sea. (Kyodo)

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Portal introducing Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Chinese-language portal that Kyodo News, in cooperation with the Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency, launched on Aug. 25, 2011, on Xinhua's website aimed at introducing Japan to Chinese people. The URL of the portal is http://rbdg.xinhuanet.com. (Kyodo)

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Rakuten buying U.S. shopping portal Ebates

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani (L), chief executive officer of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc., and Kevin Johnson, CEO of U.S. cash-back shopping portal Ebates Inc., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2014. Rakuten said it is buying the San Francisco-based firm in October for about $1 billion or 105 billion yen to strengthen its international operations. (Kyodo)

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Kyodo's trilingual website for Japan info

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the trilingual website for accessing the latest information on Japan that Kyodo News launched on Dec. 1, 2011. The website, entitled Japan Portal (http://www.japanportal.jp), allows users outside Japan to access information on topics such as tourist spots and reconstruction from the March earthquake and tsunami in English, Chinese and Korean. (Kyodo)

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Yahoo Japan debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - (From R to L, front) Yahoo Japan President Masahiro Inoue, Tokyo Stock Exchange President Masaaki Tsuchida, and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yan pose for photos as Yahoo Japan Corp., Japan's leading Internet portal site operator, debuted on Oct. 28 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (Kyodo)

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Yahoo Japan to put up 1st full-page ad on Web site

TOKYO, Japan - Yahoo Japan Corp. will for the first time put up a full-page advertisement for a new product on its Web site from June 16 to 30, in association with Asahi Breweries Ltd., Japan's leading Internet portal said June 14. (Kyodo)