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NTT West to launch elderly support service via videophone

OSAKA, Japan - A device for the remote elderly support system of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. is shown in Osaka in October 2014. NTT West announced on Dec. 19, 2014, it will start the support service via videophone system for elderly people in Nara, western Japan, on a trial basis in February 2015.

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Sign language interpretation service using iPad

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on June 17, 2013, shows East Japan Railway Co. testing a sign language interpretation service using a videophone application on an Apple Inc. iPad tablet computer.

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Sign language interpretation service using iPad

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on June 17, 2013, shows East Japan Railway Co. testing a sign language interpretation service using a videophone application on an Apple Inc. iPad tablet computer.

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Defense chief encourages GSDF members in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (C) speaks in the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012, via videophone with Col. Toru Namatame (R) of the Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in South Sudan. Tanaka encouraged GSDF personnel who arrived in the African nation the previous day to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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GSDF leader in Samawah says local sentiment not worsening

NAGOYA, Japan - Col. Kiyohiko Ota (on the screen), the leader of Japan's fifth contingent of the Ground Self-Defense Force on an aid mission in Samawah, southern Iraq, speaks to reporters in a Nagoya garrison, home to the majority of troops in his contingent, via videophone from Samawah on March 8. Ota said he did not feel any deterioration in local sentiment toward Japanese troops and that the area is relatively stable after British forces took over security duties from Dutch troops in the area on March 7.

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Gadget created to turn Nintendo Game Boy into videophone

KYOTO, Japan - Digital Act Inc. said July 8 it will sell a device that can be connected to Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy Advance game console to be used as a videophone. ''Campho Advance,'' a cartridge with a built-in miniature camera, carries a price tag of 19,000 yen and will be sold from July 30 over the Internet, the Kyoto-based company said.

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Wakata says space shuttle trip was like dream

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (on the video screen) speaks from Houston, Texas, to reporters in Tokyo via videophone Nov. 15. He said he feels as if his October space shuttle mission was like a dream. Wakata, 37, and six other astronauts conducted a successful mission Oct. 11-24 to add essential components to the International Space Station.

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Hiroshima survivor speaks to U.S. students by videophone

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Miyoko Matsubara, representative of the Group to Convey the Spirit of Hiroshima, tells of her experiences Nov. 10 during an interactive distance learning class via videoconference system to dozens of students from elementary and high schools in and around Detroit. From the Hiroshima branch office of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., Matsubara, 68, answered questions from students aged between 11 and 17 who were gathered at a Detroit facility.

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GSDF leader in Samawah says local sentiment not worsening

NAGOYA, Japan - Col. Kiyohiko Ota (on the screen), the leader of Japan's fifth contingent of the Ground Self-Defense Force on an aid mission in Samawah, southern Iraq, speaks to reporters in a Nagoya garrison, home to the majority of troops in his contingent, via videophone from Samawah on March 8. Ota said he did not feel any deterioration in local sentiment toward Japanese troops and that the area is relatively stable after British forces took over security duties from Dutch troops in the area on March 7. (Kyodo)

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Defense chief encourages GSDF members in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (C) speaks in the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012, via videophone with Col. Toru Namatame (R) of the Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in South Sudan. Tanaka encouraged GSDF personnel who arrived in the African nation the previous day to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Kyodo)

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NTT West to launch elderly support service via videophone

OSAKA, Japan - A device for the remote elderly support system of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. is shown in Osaka in October 2014. NTT West announced on Dec. 19, 2014, it will start the support service via videophone system for elderly people in Nara, western Japan, on a trial basis in February 2015. (Kyodo)

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Videophone class for Japanese students conducted at Antarctica

Members of a Japanese Antarctic observation team, including a junior high school teacher, give a videophone class on Feb. 7, 2017, from Showa Station, Antarctica, to junior high school students in the northeastern Japan city of Kesennuma. About 150 students, teachers and local people attended it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Biology teacher gives videophone class from Antarctica

Yoriko Ikuta (L in front row), a biology teacher at a middle school and high school in Nara Prefecture, waves to her students from Showa Station, Japan's permanent research station in Antarctica, during a videophone class on Feb. 9, 2017. The 40-year-old teacher spoke about the results of her experiments at the South Pole to generate power using soil. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Junior high students receive satellite class from Antarctica

Maki Hamanaka, a 47-year-old nursing teacher, gives a videophone class from Showa Station, Japan's permanent research station in Antarctica, to junior high school students in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, via satellite circuit on Feb. 7, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Junior high students receive satellite class from Antarctica

Junior high school students watch a screen during a special class through videophone from Showa Station, Japan's permanent research station in Antarctica, at their school in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Feb. 7, 2017. About 150 students, teachers and local people took part in the class by satellite circuit. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gadget created to turn Nintendo Game Boy into videophone

KYOTO, Japan - Digital Act Inc. said July 8 it will sell a device that can be connected to Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy Advance game console to be used as a videophone. ''Campho Advance,'' a cartridge with a built-in miniature camera, carries a price tag of 19,000 yen and will be sold from July 30 over the Internet, the Kyoto-based company said. (Kyodo)

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Wakata says space shuttle trip was like dream

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (on the video screen) speaks from Houston, Texas, to reporters in Tokyo via videophone Nov. 15. He said he feels as if his October space shuttle mission was like a dream. Wakata, 37, and six other astronauts conducted a successful mission Oct. 11-24 to add essential components to the International Space Station.

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Hiroshima survivor speaks to U.S. students by videophone

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Miyoko Matsubara, representative of the Group to Convey the Spirit of Hiroshima, tells of her experiences Nov. 10 during an interactive distance learning class via videoconference system to dozens of students from elementary and high schools in and around Detroit. From the Hiroshima branch office of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., Matsubara, 68, answered questions from students aged between 11 and 17 who were gathered at a Detroit facility.