| Sep 01 | 'Gran Turismo 5' gets Japan release date; Tokyo gears up for games show (Japan Times) |
 Gentlemen (and ladies, too), start your engines. Racing simulator "Gran Turismo 5," has been given a release date. It will be roaring into Japanese retailers come Nov. 3 - a day behind its North American release date of Nov. 2.
The game was first shown in 2006 and apparently has cost $60 million to develop. And perhaps, just perhaps, it has more PlayStation 3 owners waiting for it with bated breath than did the console's already-released exclusives "Metal Gear Solid IV" and "Final Fantasy XIII."
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| Sep 01 | Gree, Mixi innovators say Japan Web firms need global strategy (Japan Times) |
| Web services such as Twitter and YouTube have entered Japan and become familiar tools in the arsenals of Japanese Web surfers. But Netizens in other countries might be hard-pressed to identify the Japanese equivalents to these services, even though they are popular at home. At the Web Innovation Share (WISH) 2010 event held in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 28, some of Japan's leading Internet service providers discussed how local Web firms can penetrate the global market. They said that while having a vision for the global market is essential, especially within Asian countries, it is difficult to compete globally without having some level of success in the domestic market. |
| Aug 25 | iPad Self-Ordering System for Japanese Izakaya (Japan Probe) |
 Sharp System Products has created a self-ordering system for restaurants that can be run on Apple's iPad. With this system, the pictures shown on the iPad can be exactly the same as those on the conventional menu. The system makes intuitive use of the iPad's user interface; for example, pictures can also be enlarged by pinching.
By using a general-purpose device like the iPad as the ordering tablet, the system's entry barrier will be lowered. This will also make it easier for customers to place additional orders, so restaurants can increase their revenue as well.
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| Aug 25 | iPhone Translator App Travels to Japan: My Field Test (Computerworld) |
| The makers of the Jibbigo app, Mobile Technologies, have delivered arguably the smartest apps in the App Store: voice-to-voice translation apps for Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and an Iraqi dialect of Arabic, with more languages on the way. Just speak into the iPhone in either English or another language, and in a few seconds the app translates your words into voice and text. The apps aren't cheap, ranging around $30 each. |
| Aug 25 | Big-fingered sumos given iPads (CNN) |
| Can a person's hands be too big for a cell phone? If you're a sumo wrestler, maybe so. The Japan Sumo Association reportedly has purchased 60 iPads for some sumo wrestlers whose fingers are too beefy to use mobile phones. According to a report from Jiji News, a Japanese news service, the sumo association hopes the iPad will improve its communication with wrestlers who don't use computers or who struggle with tiny gadgets. The iPad, a touch-screen "slate" computer from Apple Inc., features a 9.7-inch screen, considerably larger than those of most phones. Smartphone screens tend to range from about 3 to 5 inches, measured diagonally. |
| Aug 25 | Toshiba to sell 'no-glasses' 3-D TV by yearend (Japan Times) |
| Toshiba Corp. will start marketing a 3-D TV that people can watch without wearing special eyeglasses, the first such TV in the world, sources said Tuesday. The company hopes to have the product on sale by the end of this year. Although various major consumer electronics makers have released 3-D TVs, including Panasonic Corp. in April and Sony Corp. in June, critics have complained about the bother of having to wear special glasses. |
| Aug 24 | Sharp planning multi-use device for 3-D content (Japan Times) |
| Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama said Monday his company's multifunctional device allowing users to access e-book content will be sold in autumn, and a model that can project three-dimensional images and videos is likely to be sold next year or later. Sharp announced in July it will enter the e-book market later this year by launching a device that allows users to access video and audio content in addition to text and still images. |
| Aug 24 | Rival to offer iPhone SIM options (Japan Times) |
| Softbank Corp., Japan's only provider of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, is losing part of that exclusivity as Japan Communications Inc. starts offering chips that will allow the smart phone to access another network. Japan Communications will offer a subscriber identity module, a chip that allows unlocked iPhone 4s to use NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s network, Japan Communications said Monday. The service will cost ¥5,280 a month for unlimited data use with a separate charge for voice calls and will be available starting Thursday for users who reserved online, according to a statement by the closely held company. |
| Aug 21 | Japanese toothbrush goes solar (tgdaily.com) |
 The Shiken company of Japan is field testing a funky solar-powered toothbrush that doesn't require toothpaste.
Instead, the Soladey-J3X - designed by Dr. Kunio Komiyama and Dr. Gerry Uswak - features a solar panel at its base that transmits electrons to the top of the toothbrush through a lead wire.
As PhysOrg explains, the electrons react with acid in the mouth, creating a chemical reaction that breaks down plaque and kills bacteria.
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| Aug 19 | Why Japanese Developers Need New IP's (gamingunion.net) |
 Many Japanese developers are struggling to keep up with the big numbers drawn in by western games. This isn't as much speculation, as it is fact. Outside of Nintendo, Square Enix, and Platinum Games (and a few select others), it's difficult to really pin down a developer that's been a hit overseas which Japan can directly claim. But the reasons behind these failures are not hard to identify. In fact, it can all be summed up in one pretty simple question: Where are the new IP's?
The fact of the matter is that franchises simply last far too long in Japan.
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| Aug 19 | Canon gives up on development of next-generation flat-panel displays (Mainichi) |
| Canon Inc. said it has decided to give up on the development of next-generation displays for flat-screen TVs and will dissolve its subsidiary set up for their technology development by the end of September. The optical equipment manufacturer has been forced to abandon the development of surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (SED), after it became difficult to turn a profit as the prices of flat-screen TVs continue to fall. The company is set to dissolve and liquidate its wholly-owned subsidiary in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, by the end of September. |
| Aug 19 | 'Cloud computing' helps farmers in the field (Asahi) |
 It's not a green thumb or a knack for knowing how his crops will fare that keeps farmer Hideaki Shinpuku smiling.
"In farming, you can't rely just on your instincts," Shinpuku said as he tended his fields of satoimo yams, gobo roots, daikon radishes and carrots, that cover a total of about 92 hectares in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture.
In fact, the 58-year-old former textile company employee relies on a computer hundreds of kilometers away in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, to give him crucial advice on when to begin weeding or harvesting, or whether he is giving enough water to his crop.
By transmitting video images taken by cameras and readings from hygrometers and other sensors placed in the ground or around the fields to a mainframe at a Fujitsu Ltd. data center, he has been able to receive prompt farming advice that in turn has helped him raise his yield.
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| Aug 18 | US Baby Monitors Disrupt Japanese Airwaves (myfoxphilly.com) |
| Baby monitors used by U.S. military families serving in Japan use frequencies that disrupt radio and cell phone traffic, military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported Tuesday. Military officials are warning army families to turn off any baby monitors they brought with them to Japan, or ones that they ordered online. U.S. military personnel are told about the devices when they report for duty in Japan. |
| Aug 17 | China chases Japan on animation (Hollywood Reporter) |
| When it comes to animation, China wants to be the next Japan. Long envious of its Asian neighbor's success with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to produce films of their own. With the blessing of the country's Ministry of Culture, provinces and municipalities are staging contests, festivals and conferences, all aimed at getting homegrown talent more exposure -- and some badly needed attention on the international stage. The holy grail is theatrical, TV and especially home entertainment distribution contracts in the United States that played a key role in helping anime break out of its native Japan and become a true international phenomenon in the early 2000s. |
| Aug 17 | US Snatches Pokemon World Championship from Japan (escapistmagazine.com) |
| The world's best Pokemon masters converged on Hawaii, but in the end there could be only one. I'm going to be honest here: I think competitive Pokemon battling is really cool. There's an incredibly deep and strategic game beneath the surface, a game where it ceases to be "my Charizard uses Fire Blast on your Bayleef" and becomes "I use SubSeed!Jumpluff with Sunny Day in the Uber tier to take advantage of its low base HP to sustain itself indefinitely." It's essentially that one scene in The Princess Bride, with adorable little monsters instead of poison. |
| Aug 17 | Sony, Panasonic TVs try to hold China line (Japan Times) |
 The ambitions of Sony and Panasonic for higher earnings this year depend on convincing Yin Weiguang, a retired construction worker in Beijing, that he chose the wrong television. "I don't really care about fancy features," said Yin, 55, who paid 2,799 yuan (a little more than ¥35,000) for a 32-inch set made by Skyworth Digital Holdings. "I just use it for basic entertainment: watching news, (the) weather forecasts and TV series."
Sony and Panasonic, the world's two largest makers of consumer electronics, are slashing some TV prices by a third in China after being outsold six-to-one by Shenzhen-based Skyworth.
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| Aug 15 | New Casio Exilim will judge your golf swing (CNET) |
 Point-and-shoots these days all have pretty much the same functions, with the exception of a rare few that have carved a niche for themselves. For example, Samsung's dual-LCD compacts are great for those who like to take self-portraits. For Casio, the company's latest camera, the Exilim EX-FC160S, is geared toward golfers. This shooter employs a 10-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor, which lets golfers record videos at 240fps. This generates a slow-motion clip when played back at 30fps, and the Exilim will overlay lines on the screen to help you determine how good your swing is.
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| Aug 14 | How Is 3D TV Doing? Some Data From Japan (crunchgear.com) |
Think what you want about 3D TV, but it's here already, and we've just seen the beginning. But are people actually buying the devices, as a few dozen models are now available in the US, Japan and other places? The Nikkei, Japan's biggest business daily, recently investigated the 3D TV market in Nippon. What they found out could be of interest for the US and European markets as well.
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| Aug 12 | IPad winning over elderly (Japan Times) |
 Hikosaburo Yasuda says he knows a trend when he sees one and plans to buy an Apple iPad to keep up with junior members in his computer club. Yasuda is 95. "It's important to always try new things, otherwise you get left behind," Yasuda said. "All these books in just one place, and so many familiar, classic titles that I've never had a chance to read. I want to buy the iPad just for that."
Yasuda and his peers, looking for easier ways to browse the Web and send e-mails, are a potentially lucrative demographic for Apple as the proportion of people aged 65 and over climbs to records each year in countries including the United States, China and France. Japan has the world's fastest-aging society, with the elderly accounting for an estimated 22 percent of the population, almost triple the global average.
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| Aug 11 | Japan gets crazy touchscreen vending machines (dvice.com) |
 Japan has a love affair with vending machines. You can get anything, from hot coffee to hot noodles to fresh fruit to cigarettes, from the ubiquitous machines. So it's only natural that they'd jump on the touchscreen vending machine bandwagon first.
A new touchscreen machine called the aCure has just been installed in the bustling Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, and it's already been attracting a crowd.
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| Aug 11 | Emergency rice to be released as animal feed (Yomiuri) |
| The government plans to stop releasing rice from its emergency stocks to the market for human consumption, a practice that causes prices to fall by increasing supply, the farm ministry said. Instead, emergency rice will be sold as livestock feed once it has been in storage for five years. The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Monday it plans to request 52 billion yen for next fiscal year to cover future losses incurred by selling the rice as feed. |
| Aug 10 | A Threat to Softbank's iPhone Honeymoon? (Wall Street Journal) |
 And the Apple Inc. phone's only local carrier, Softbank Corp., is enjoying a happy marriage. In Japan, as in the U.S., every iPhone sold at local stores carries a SIM (subscriber identity module) card that has been locked to make it compatible only with one carrier. But every marriage faces challenges. The potential threat: small telecom services firm Japan Communications Inc., or JCI, says it plans to release around the end of this month a new SIM card which will work with iPhone 4 handsets that don't have locked SIM cards.
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| Aug 09 | Japan users to have DoCoMo option with iPhone 4 (moneycontrol.com) |
| Apple Inc's iPhone could get a sales boost from this month as a Japanese wireless services provider plans to launch a service enabling users to use iPhone 4 on NTT DoCoMo's network. DoCoMo's smaller rival Softbank Corp is currently the sole supplier of the wildly popular iPhone and iPad tablet computer in Japan and has been showing strong subscriber growth thanks to the devices, which are locked to Softbank's network. |
| Aug 09 | Apple warns: iPod Nano devices flammable (ifreshnews.com) |
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| Aug 06 | This is your grandfather's iPad as Japan elderly embrace Apple (Bloomberg) |
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| Aug 05 | Sharp plans to launch 3D smartphone this year (Sydney Morning Herald) |
Sharp plans to take on Apple's iPhone by the end of the year, with the international launch of a smartphone featuring a 3D panel that can be viewed without special glasses, a spokeswoman said today.
The new phone will also likely have a 3D capable camera, the spokeswoman said.
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| Aug 05 | NTT DOCOMO and DNP to Partner in E-Publishing and Retail Business (Asahi) |
| NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) announced today that they will partner in an electronic publishing business covering content aggregation, distribution and retail sales of e-books, which DOCOMO customers in Japan will access with a variety of mobile devices from this fall. |
| Aug 02 | Students strike success with 735-yen iPad lookalike (Mainichi) |
 A company run by students here is enjoying brisk sales of its "Padnote" -- a notebook which looks just like Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet.
The unique product has been developed and released by Gocco. -- a start-up business established by students at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture. The notebook with gridlines is designed to facilitate drawing. In collaboration with a printing firm near the college, they have managed to imitate the exterior appearance of the iPad, including its texture and control buttons.
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| Aug 02 | Japan mobile phone makers to roll out 'augmented reality' (AFP) |
 The "Terminator" had it, US fighter pilots use it and it's the next hot feature on Japanese smartphones -- "augmented reality" which peppers the world around you with useful bits of information.
Imagine wearing high-tech glasses and having small, cartoon speech balloon-style tags pop up within your field of vision, overlaying real-world objects and buildings to describe what you're looking at.
That is essentially what Japan's two largest cellphone operators are about to offer their millions of customers, except they will use the cameras and screens of smartphones plus vast online databases.
By harnessing the power of the Internet and bringing it more deeply into people's everyday lives, they plan to change the way we perceive reality and move a step closer to digitising our world view -- literally.
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| Jul 29 | Which Japanese company will win the 3D TV war? (BBC) |
| 3D television has been touted as the future of the moving image, but so far the technology has been slow to take off. Some of the biggest names in Japan's technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders. Investors will be watching closely as the battle for dominance of the new technology heats up. |
| Jul 29 | Overheating iPods: Japan Orders Apple To Act (sky.com) |
 Apple has been ordered to explain to Japan's industry ministry what it plans to do about cases of its iPod Nano music player overheating and catching fire.
There have been at least 27 incidents of the device overheating while charging.
Six of these started fires that needed to be put out by firefighters, an official from Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said.
Four people have burned themsleves touching the device but Apple has failed to act, the official said.
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| Jul 29 | A year left on analog TV (Japan Times) |
| Less than a year remains before the total switch to terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in Japan. Analog TV broadcasts are scheduled to end July 24, 2011. While preparations for the transition are being pushed, many problems must be solved to ensure a smooth transition. The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan says that by the end of this year, 98.5 percent of the nation's households should be able to receive digital TV broadcast waves. The price of popular 32-inch digital TVs has dropped to around ¥50,000. Government "eco-point" subsidies have helped boost digital TV sales. As of March, the accumulated shipment of digital TVs reached 73.74 million units, and 83.8 percent Japan's households owned such TVs, the communications ministry reports. |
| Jul 28 | Freebies to Ease Japan iPhone 3G Load? (Wall Street Journal) |
 Similar to U.S. iPhone network provider AT&T, Softbank Corp., the wireless carrier for Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Japan, often faces criticism that its cellular network can't keep up with the data-heavy smartphones. Softbank's solution? Starting in May, the company offered free broadband connections and free 3G femtocell mini base stations, which look similar to wireless routers, to Softbank subscribers. Femtocells are small cellular base stations (in this case 3G) that use a high-speed Internet connection to route calls to the wireless cellular network.
Softbank says the only additional cost to the user is possibly a small increase in electricity costs from the plugged-in femtocell.
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| Jul 28 | Asia still getting the fastest Internet (cedmagazine.com) |
| Of the 100 cities in the world with the fastest average Internet connection speed, 61 are in Asia, and only 12 in the U.S. The U.S. ranks eighth when it comes to average maximum speed - 16 Mbps - less than half the average maximum of first-place South Korea. The data is from the first quarter of 2010, and was compiled by Akamai Technologies. The city with the fastest Internet is Masan in South Korea. It is followed by dozens of cities in Japan, another handful in South Korea, and a few cities scattered across Romania, Germany, and Norway. |
| Jul 27 | ISP blocking of access to child porn gets OK from government team (Japan Times) |
| A government working group approved on Monday a plan to get Internet service providers to block access to child pornography images as soon as they are found, without waiting for site operators to grant requests to delete them, officials said. The approval came at a meeting of bureaucrats from the National Police Agency, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and seven other government offices. |
| Jul 23 | Japanese cellphones lead in 'smarts' (UPI) |
| Cellphones in Japan are smarter than their U.S. counterparts, but blame it on U.S. service providers, not the phone manufacturers, industry experts say. Japanese mobile phone operators, led by the country's largest, NTT DoCoMo, have long provided Japanese consumers with services allowing phones to be used as key cards, personal IDs, transit passes, credit cards and more, LiveScience.com reported Tuesday. |
| Jul 22 | Japan, Australia enter broadband agreement (computerworld.com.au) |
| Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has signed an agreement with Japan's minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Kazuhiro Haraguchi, that would see Australia and Japan strengthen bilateral cooperation in broadband technology and other ICT matters, according to reports. Japanese news website Kyodo News reported that Conroy met with Haraguchi on Monday to sign the agreement on Tuesday around broadband technologies. However, it remains unclear exactly what both countries have agreed to. |
| Jul 22 | Fujitsu launches 'easy-easy' seniors' phone (AFP) |
 Japan's Fujitsu launched a new mobile telephone for the elderly on Wednesday, its latest "Raku-Raku" or "easy-easy" model, with a large, crisp display and one-touch Internet access.
Users of the phone, designed in Japan for telecom giant NTT, have access to a special website with travel and gourmet information tailored to the needs of senior citizens, as well as news, weather and transport details.
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| Jul 21 | Ridiculous $230 coolers are just for watermelons (dvice.com) |
 How far would you go to keep a watermelon cold? In Japan, the answer is apparently pretty damn far. Not only will your fruit stay nice and chill, but the coolers even have wheels so you can cart your precious prize around.
Even crazier is the fact that one of these babies will set you back $230. You'd have to really love watermelons.
The big question to my mind, though, is if the company behind these will also come out with a cooler for square watermelons.
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| Jul 21 | Ustream goes mainstream (Japan Times) |
 From high atop the summit of Mount Fuji last summer, despite miserable weather and poor visibility, 32-year-old tech enthusiast Joseph Tame sent video coverage of a spectacular solar eclipse live to the Internet from an impromptu mobile-broadcasting studio. With little more than a laptop and a Web connection, Tame's high-altitude adventure was watched by about 370 viewers down below. The Fuji climb was a great example of the promise of Ustream, a live-streaming video service. Having received ¥1.8 billion in investment from Japanese telecom giant SoftBank in January this year, Ustream is now seeping into mainstream consciousness in Japan, enabling aspiring broadcasters to shout their message from the mountains, valleys and everywhere in between - all in real time.
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| Jul 21 | Businesses quick to embrace iPad (Japan Times) |
| It's been only a month since Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer hit the Japanese market, but already a string of businesses are looking to use the multifunctional gadget in their marketing strategies. But as the iPad, which runs on a unique operating system, outsells the competition, makers of tablet computers using Microsoft Windows or Google Inc.'s Android will have to come up with innovative ideas to avoid being left in the dust. |
| Jul 21 | Man arrested for BitTorrent file sharing in Japan (examiner.com) |
| A 31-year old unemployed man was arrested by police in Japan on July 20th for illegal transmission of TV programs over the controversial file sharing software BitTorrent. According to Japanese news reports, under the support of the Metropolitan Police Department's cyber crime division, investigators arrested Shuichiro Tanaka in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on suspicion of uploading and sharing TV shows. Police indicated that from June 4th to June 9th, Tanaka is believed to have recorded three programs on his computer, and then to have shared them via BitTorrent to an unspecified number of users. |
| Jul 21 | Sharp planning e-book reader (Japan Times) |
| Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will enter the e-book market this year with a device that allows users to read e-book content it plans to distribute in cooperation with newspaper companies and other publishing firms. The multifunctional device will allow users to access video and audio content in addition to text and still images, Sharp said. Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. also plan to release e-book reader devices in the near future. |
| Jul 20 | Japan tests billboards that know your gender, age (CNET) |
 A consortium of 11 railway companies has launched a one-year pilot project to test the signs, setting up 27 of the "Minority Report"-style displays in commuter stations around the Japanese prefecture. But while billboards in that sci-fi flick could recognize people by name and shout out purchasing suggestions, the Japanese signs employ cameras and face recognition software to determine just the gender and age of passersby.
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| Jul 20 | Apple iPad Hits Nine More Countries Friday (informationweek.com) |
| Apple on Monday said that its iPad will be available in nine more countries on Friday, July 23. Apple did not disclose specific iPad price points in these markets. Launched on April 3 in the U.S., the iPad was subsequently introduced in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on May 28. In markets where the iPad is currently offered, the Wi-Fi models carry a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for 16GB, $599 (US) for 32GB, and $699 (US) for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models list for $629 (US) for 16GB, $729 (US) for 32GB and $829 (US) for 64GB. |
| Jul 17 | Sharp launch Blu-ray disc with 100GB (livestreetjournal.net) |
| It was known that the Blu-ray had a future expansion capabilities. Currently you can find Blu-ray market of 25 and 50 gigabytes, but has recently been confirmed BDXL standard, which extends those values to 100 and 128 GB respectively. In response to this new standard, the people of Sharp is already planning on releasing an album BDXL later this month, the Japanese market will be the first to receive the affection of these super discs. |
| Jul 16 | Cell phone service option (Japan Times) |
| On June 30 the communications ministry issued a guideline calling on cell phone operators to remove carrier-specific locks, or SIM locks, so that customers can change from one cell phone operator's services to another's without having to buy a new phone. In accordance with this guideline, NTT DoCoMo announced on July 6 that it will not install SIM locks on its cell phones in and after April 2011. But it is unclear whether other cell phone operators will follow suit because the ministry's guideline is not mandatory. |
| Jul 15 | All 9 Sony Shop Avic outlets to be shuttered this month (Yomiuri) |
| Sony Corp. said Wednesday it would close all nine Sony Shop Avic retail outlets in Japan at the end of this month in an overhaul of its sales strategy. The firm's current strategy, which includes managing its own retail shops, was drawn up by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer in a bid to counter Apple Inc.'s self-branded stores. However, a review has apparently been forced by Sony's failure to reverse the fortunes of Avic Group Corp., the money-losing affiliate that operates the shops. |
| Jul 14 | Anime legend: iPad use is disgusting (CNET) |
 It's not always easy to argue with an artist. Somehow, everything that's said ends up being so, well, subjective.
Still, how can one not at least listen to the words of the great Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki on the subject of the iPad? According to the blog Kotaku, Miyazaki gave an interview to Neppuu--the pamphlet published by his movie studio--in which he railed against the iPad and the way people use it. He reportedly described people as "stroking" it with "strange gestures."
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| Jul 14 | Cooker makes bread out of rice (Japan Times) |
 Backed by the recent revival of rice consumption, Sanyo Electric Co. debuted a machine Tuesday that can bake bread out of rice. The Gopan looks similar to a rice cooker. Just add 220 grams of rice, 210 grams of water, sugar, salt and shortening in the bread pan, and gluten and dry yeast in the unit's automatic dispenser, and the machine grinds the grain, and kneads and bakes the dough in about four hours.
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