Neowin News Feed for: Japanese

Firefox advances privacy for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean users

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:28:01 +0000

Mozilla has begun rolling out Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translation support in Firefox. It's privacy-friendly and even works offline. Read more...

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News Staff — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:46:01 +0000

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Japan's NEC showcases a ‘flying car' at a steady ten feet for a minute

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:18:01 +0000

The Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC, showcases a stable, unmanned flying vehicle that is primarily aimed for delivery purposes but has other potential use-cases in the future. Read more...

Vivaldi first browser with vertical reader mode

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:40:01 +0000

Vivaldi 1.14 has now been released. It includes vertical reader mode for reading pages in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean which are formatted vertically; and Markdown support has been added to Notes. Read more...

Microsoft Translator adds Japanese as a supported speech translation language

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has added a new language that will support its speech translation service. Japanese will become the tenth language joining Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, amongst others. Read more...

Pre-orders for Japan's NuAns NEO with Windows 10 Mobile are now open

Matt Brown — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:46:01 +0000

Japan's mid-range Windows 10 Mobile device, the 'NuAns Neo', is set to launch during January of next year, and as of today, pre-orders for the device are live, starting at 42,700 yen. Read more...

Yamada Denki announces the thinnest Windows phone ever, called the 'Every Phone'

Matt Brown — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:46:01 +0000

Yamada Denki has announced its latest Windows 10 Mobile device named 'Every Phone', which offers reasonable hardware specifications and features in a thin, sleek casing to those in Japan. Read more...

Samsung to sell the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in Japan without its logo

Justin Luna — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:01:20 +0000

Samsung has decided to ditch its corporate logo on the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge when it gets sold in Japan. Instead, the two flagships will be marketed using local carriers' branding. Read more...

Microsoft files lawsuit against Kyocera citing patent infringements

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:37:33 +0000

Microsoft has sued Kyocera, a company which showed some interest in the Windows Phone OS at the Mobile World Congress 2015. The lawsuit cites patent infringement as the cause of the lawsuit. Read more...

Samsung reportedly thinking of abandoning Japanese phone market

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:54:01 +0000

According to industry sources, Samsung is considering abandoning the Japanese phone market altogether after its Note Edge handset failed to garner interest and marketshare plummeted. Read more...

Japan begins to crack down on piracy with two million yen fines

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:34:05 +0000

Japan's government has agreed to new legislation against criminals caught downloading illegally, bringing in a maximum fine of two million yen or a potential two year stay in a prison cell. Read more...

Siri is turning Japanese with iOS 5.1

Paul Ferson — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:15:42 +0000

Apple announces that Siri will soon support the Japanese language, and will be deployed to Japan over the next few weeks as part of the company's latest iOS 5.1 update. Read more...

Japanese Study: No Increased Cancer Risk with Cellphones

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:45:01 +0000

According to scientists at Tokyo Women's Medical University, using a mobile phone does not increase your risk of brain cancer, a finding which adds to the growing body of evidence that mobile phones are safe.... Read more...

Japanese Citizens get Cell Tower Removed for Health Reasons

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:54:37 +0000

NTT DoCoMo Kansa, Inc will be removing a tower that it installed in a local bus station December 2005. About 40 residents of Kawanishi, Hyogo formed a group to eliminate pollution triggered by electromagnetic... Read more...

Apple plays Mobile Operators over Japanese iPhone Launch

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:12:44 +0000

Apple Inc is playing Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc against No. 3 carrier Softbank Corp (9984.T: Quote, Profile, Research) on selling the iPhone in Japan, meeting executives from both companies, sources said on... Read more...

Japanese Wii Gets DS Downloads

Andrew — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:53:33 +0000

Nintendo has launched a new Wii channel in Japan that allows people to download demos of DS games. As promised last month, the new channel also has other content like Wii trailers and a feedback... Read more...

Blu-ray dominates Japanese HD recorder sales

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:36:20 +0000

High definition media like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc has increase to account for just under 20 per cent of Japanese consumers' retail recorder purchases, numbers from market watcher GfK show. And of the two... Read more...

Sony Makes Japanese PlayStation Store Accessible by PC

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:45:58 +0000

Thanks to the PlayStation Store, gamers can connect their PSP to the PlayStation 3 console to download classic PSone games to play on the handheld. Gamers living in Japan don't even need a PS3: Sony... Read more...

Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights

Mon, 28 May 2007 13:58:38 +0000

Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch that hit data flowing between All Nippon Airways Company Limited's main reservations host computer and intermediate computers... Read more...

Cell phone cameras help Japanese lose weight

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:02:27 +0000

Some Japanese cell phone users are photographing their meals and sending the image to nutritionists for analysis and recommendations. Public health insurance offices in Osaka prefecture in western Japan have launched the service on a... Read more...

Japanese Scientists Create 200nm Thick Polymer-based Battery

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:19:53 +0000

At Waseda University, three scientists by the names of Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga have developed a new polymer-based 200 nanometres thick rechargeable battery that incorporates a high charge/discharge capacity, yet it is... Read more...

Japanese Trojan attacks P2P file-sharing pirates

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:38:53 +0000

n a case of a malware purveyor attacking pirate file-sharers, security vendor Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse which has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been... Read more...

PS3 Game Finally Makes it into Japanese Top 10

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:47:11 +0000

It has taken a while, but it finally looks certain that Japan will adopt the PS3. Virtua Fighter 5 on the PS3 stormed into the number 1 slot of the Japanese charts this week, selling... Read more...

YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:02:32 +0000

YouTube will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their... Read more...

Europeans Have it Bad? Try Being Japanese

Joe Cashman — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:40:15 +0000

Ever been frustrated at waiting nearly a year to get that Final Fantasy game that Japan has had for what seems like years and years? Well, now the Japanese know exactly how feels, and have... Read more...

88,400 PS3's Sold In Two Days During Japanese Launch

Todd Tanner — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:30:01 +0000

Thanks to Andy07 for the head's up on this story. Sony... Read more...

Only 80,000 PS3's At Japanese Launch?

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:25:06 +0000

I know everyone hates it when I post negative stuff about Sony and the PS3, so accept this apology in advance, sorry Sony fans! Thanks to IGN for the evil story! ... Read more...

Nintendo Drives Revival of Japanese Market

Joe Cashman — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:10:39 +0000

Sales of Nintendo's DS handheld console have lead to a boom in the Japanese gaming market this year. The DS is the unrivalled king in Japan at the moment, selling thousands more than its competitors... Read more...

Study from Japanese University Suggests Addiction is Genetic

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:41:27 +0000

If you love gadgets and computers and absolutely must have the latest device, then you may be a neophiliac. Neophiliacs, it seems, are people who are addicted to the new. "Some folks have an... Read more...

Japanese Chip Makers Team up for 45nm

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:54:35 +0000

Toshiba Corp. and other Japanese chip makers on Tuesday scrapped a tentative plan to set up a microchip foundry but said they will standardize technology to make cutting-edge chips in a latest effort to join... Read more...

Nintendo DS Drives Japanese Market

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:34:56 +0000

The latest Japanese sales charts, including the week of the Xbox 360's launch in that country, show the Nintendo DS scoring big thanks to releases such as Mario Kart DS. In the week covered... Read more...

Japanese Game Charts Dominated By Nintendo

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:04:02 +0000

Nintendo DS and GBA take up half of the all formats top 10. While the UK game charts are almost entirely ruled by Electronic Arts, it's a very different story over in... Read more...

TGS 2005: Full Japanese PlayStation 3 lineup revealed

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:58:20 +0000

One of the biggest, and most unfortunate, surprises at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 so far has been the absence of any playable PlayStation 3 games.Sony Computer Entertainment released its full lineup of Japanese PS3... Read more...

Microsoft set for Long Battle With Japanese Regulators

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:53:36 +0000

Microsoft's Japanese unit is preparing for a potentially long battle with the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) in a case that will likely see three of Japan's top electronics companies testify against the software giant,... Read more...

Microsoft Woos Japanese Users to Xbox 360

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:50:29 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is putting efforts into attracting Japanese users for its new Xbox 360 game console, seeking to avoid the lack of appeal that dogged sales of the earlier version of the machine in the... Read more...

Sony Slashes into Apple's Japanese iPod Market Share

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:46:34 +0000

While Apple's iPod dominates the North American and European markets, recent reports show that Sony has made cuts into Apple's music player dominance in Japan. The gains come partially in thanks to a new... Read more...

Sony cancels closed-doors Japanese PS3 preview

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:57:51 +0000

An internal preview event for Sony's next-generation PlayStation console which was planned for March has been cancelled, according to a Reuters report, but the firm denies that its development has fallen behind. According to Reuters... Read more...

Microsoft signs more key Japanese devs for Xbox 2

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:57:12 +0000

Noted Japanese developers Yoshiki Okamoto of Game Republic and Tetsuya Mizuguchi of Q Entertainment have both signed up to develop Xbox 2-exclusive titles for Microsoft Game Studios. The announcement follows last week's revelation that Final... Read more...

Microsoft VP: Smaller Xbox 2 will turn on Japanese consumers

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:57:23 +0000

Microsoft's Peter Moore says his company's slimmed-down next-gen console will feature a software lineup more in line with the country's tastes. In an interview with Nikkei Business Express, Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate... Read more...

Microsoft gives Japanese watchdog the brushoff

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:40:12 +0000

Never one to let a government agency push it around, Microsoft has politely declined to follow the Japanese Fair Trade Commission's (JFTC) request that it alter sales practices when dealing with Japanese PC makers. ... Read more...