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Toyota Technical Development Corp (TTDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp of Japan, made a presentation about a high-efficiency design method for automotive analog integrated circuits (IC), at the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tech Forum 2009 Tokyo, Sept 4, in Shinagawa, Tokyo. (Read More)
Asiajin:
Japan’s largest social networking service Mixi is showing KDDI au(No. 2 cellphone carrier)’s new cellphone mail flat-rate plan commercial on its log-in page to 17 million users.Although Mixi is a membership service, as it is pre-login page, everyone can see it.KDDI au recently started its fixed rate internet mail plan “Gang (Read More)
Asiajin:
Recently in Tokyo, there was a marriage fraud case that a woman is suspected of having murdered her several boyfriends. According to several news media, due to the effect of the case, Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten had been planning to launch an online marriage hunting site, but they were forced to push back the release (Read More)
Asiajin:
Japan’s second largest telecom company KDDI announced yesterday that it would invest USD9M (JPY800M) on Banglaseshi largest ISP bracNet next January. The rate of the diffusion of the Internet service in the country is as low as 2% despite the country is ranked as the world’s 7th in the number of the population. With thi (Read More)
Asiajin:
Japan’s second largest airliner ANA (All Nippon Airways) announced they would start a new service on selected flights between NRT (Narita International, Tokyo) and JFK (John F. Kennedy International, New York) next February, which makes all passengers (including economy class seats) on the flights possible to connect their (Read More)
Japan Probe:
The DPJ is going through with its plan to prepare a bill that would grant voting rights to non-citizens who have permanent residency. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, a firm supporter of the bill, hopes that it will be submitted to the Diet as early as next year. However, it is possible that opposition from within the DPJ m (Read More)
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ABOARD THE ALGUITA, 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii — In this remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This ImageLindsey Hoshaw for The New Y (Read More)