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Auctions Booming, But So Are The Crooks
Internet auction houses are one of the few growth areas of e-commers, but it's not all happy families. |
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Drug Tester Bent On Speeding Up Clinical Studies
Drug testing company EPS has massive potential in Japan--and it also has its eye on China. |
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Radar Screen
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Switched On
Sony's Clie organazers are great to look at, but are they a case of style over substance? We take them for a spin. |
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Xbox Launch
Microsoft's latest bid for world domination aims for a slice of the lucrative gaiming market. |
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From The Editor
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Contributors
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The Story of J@pan Inc
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A Work In Progress
Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation looks to the future, not the past. |
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Japan Wireless Rocks
Richard Siber explains why Japan has so much to offer the world when it comes to the future of telecoms. |
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Features |
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Wireless Hotspots
High-speed, wireless Internet access is coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Broadband hot spots are set to be the next proving ground for the Japanese telcos and it looks like good news for their customers.
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The Chindogu Champion
Portable pedestrian crossings and combination locks that take 3 trillion years to crack -- chindogu are the useless wonders of the inventing world where Kenji Kawakami dreams on.
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Sucess In Small Packages
As major companies fail or become enmeshed in scandal on an almost daily basis, Henry Scott-Stokes argues that the way ahead for Japan lies with its small enterprises.
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Investor Insight |
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International Investor Relations
Japan has heard the call from outside to change a thousand times, but does the country just need more gaiatsu (foreign pressure), or does it think it can hang in a bit longer until the world comes 'back to center?' |
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Japan in 2002: Mired in a long dark tunnel, or riding a 20 year take off?
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The Case for the Defense
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Interview with Cybird President- Kazutomo Robert Hori
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Research |
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Statistics
Forty-somethings read i-mode spree |
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Japan Studies |
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Is the Japanese Language Going to the Dogs?
Generation and gender differences in the living language (part one of a two-part series). |
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Blowfish |
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Blowfish
Products of the year, where to find a bride and Japan's best stores. |
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