Japan: The New Era of Video
Region: Japan
by Chris Salzberg The days of traditional television are approaching an end. The monopoly on video production and editing once held by TV stations is over, and the age of YouTube — an age in which any individual with a camera and a computer can create a video and upload it onto the net — is upon us. Changes are coming that will shake the foundation of mass media. Or so was the message of NHK, Japan's nati... more
Views: 2271Toyota Motors records in quarterly profits
Region: JapanJapan’s Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that its third-quarter net profit rose 7.5 percent to a record high on the back of fast-growing sales overseas, particularly in emerging markets. But Toyota, which is in a tight race with Detroit giant General Motors for the rank of the world’s top automaker, maintained its cautious outlook for the full-year amid a drop in sales in North America. Net profit came... more
Views: 1208Japan invokes climate change in G-8 meet
Region: JapanJapanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who is expected to chair the Group of Eight in July, has invoked his government's point to put climate change in its next agenda. He cited during the Davos meeting that he would press for climate change as a top priority and would insist on a global agreement that will impinge on fair and equitable emission targets among major air polluters in the world. Ironically, the Japa... more
Views: 1206Japanese Language Scholar Seidensticker Dies
Region: JapanColumbia University Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature Edward Seidensticker died at his home in Tokyo on August 26th, 2007. The New York Times ran his obituary. I studied at Columbia College (Class of 1979), and took a course in Japanese and Chinese literature in English translation. Our Japanese book was The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, a story of lovers in early Imperial Japan. Our transl... more
Views: 2136Earthquakes lead to nuclear threat in Japan
Region: JapanAuthorities in Japan today shut down a nuclear power plant after a radiation seep out and other smash up from a lethal earthquake on the country’s northwestern coast giving birth to new worries about the protection of Japan’s accident-plagued nuclear industry. An electric company that operates the nuclear plant near the city of Kashiwazaki, said it had established more than 50 troubles at the plant raised by Mo... more
Views: 1378Méditation du Japon
Region: JapanBeing At dawn silence The crickets decide to sleep Knowledge ... more
Views: 1335Japan produces more cars than children
Region: JapanIt is sad to know that Japan, one of the highly industrialized countries in the world, produce more quality and fuel-efficient cars than children. As such, it baby boomers are increasing fast more than it expected. With the fast pace of industrialization and the constricting space that Japan experience at the moment, people are left without a better choice but make do with whatever they can to survive in a dog-eat-dog ... more
Views: 2322Japan offers apology vs comfort women
Region: JapanJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged before U.S. Congress that the Japanese imperial forces set up brothels for its troops during the war. Mr. Abe even went beyond offering his deep apology for Japan's misdeeds at that time when countless number of comfort women were forced as sex slaves. Historians claimed that an estimated 200,000 comfort women--mostly from China, Korea, Indonesia and the Philippine... more
Views: 1594Japan Sings Turkish National Anthem to Celebrate Pangea Day
Region: Japan
Leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This is one of a powerful series of films to be shown on Pangea Day, May 10, "the day the world comes together through film". See all four anthems. Then visit http://www.pangeaday.org and register your screening for May 10. It's time to imagine a different world. Here the Japanese troupe performs the Turkish national anthem. T... more
Views: 2465Blogger of the week: Hanako Tokita
Region: Japan
Posted by Elia Varela Serra to Global Voices Online In this week's installment of the Blogger of the Week series we are travelling to Japan thanks to Hanako Tokita, is the editor of the Global Voices Lingua site in Japanese and also a GV author for Japan, where she's from. During the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest last June, we had the chance to talk to her extensively about the Japanese blogosphere, h... more
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