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Japan tests super fast satellite broadband - CBC.ca Slow Handsets Impede LG Telecom's Mobile Internet - ?????? NTT profits jumps 32 pct on booming long distance - The Associated Press Help offered to Japan's Internet cafe homeless - AFP Rakuten to tap younger investors for future wealth - guardian.co.uk

DAILY REPORTS

May 14 Japanese Internet Satellite Hits 1.2Gbps (PC World) May 08 Yahoo! Sites remains most popular in March in Japan (telecom.paper.nl) May 07 China is now Japan's top trading partner (CCTV) May 07 Environment Ministry, weather agency unify yellow sand info on Web (Kyodo) May 03 Older Japanese find 'true' love in virtual world (expressindia.com) May 02 Japan worker in 780,000 porn hits (BBC) May 02 Government plans blocking of child porn sites (Yomiuri) May 02 Filipino software companies eye Japan as market for IT outsourcing (Manila Bulletin) May 01 Police ban Internet instructions on producing hydrogen sulfide for suicides (Asahi) Apr 30 Softbank to take big stake in Chinese web firm (AFP) Apr 25 In Japan, the Web prompts suicides by hydrogen sulfide gas (Salon) Apr 23 Mobile tide lifts Japan music download biz (Hollywood Reporter) Apr 22 June start set for fiber-optic cable between Japan, Russia (Japan Times) Apr 22 Sony to Offer Online Video Downloads Over PlayStation (Bloomberg) Apr 21 Net censorship for minors raises tricky questions (Yomiuri) Apr 20 Fiber-optic line users exceed ADSL users for Internet connection in Japan (TMCnet) Apr 19 Visual Search Engine is Big in Japan (i4u.com) Apr 18 Stop online bullying before it spreads (Asahi) Apr 18 Web site slams teacher who stuck up for student (Yomiuri) Apr 16 Insurer looks to online sales to undercut big firms (Japan Times) Apr 16 Web sites hotbeds of bullying (Yomiuri) Apr 15 Yahoo Japan embraces Silverlight for refined search experience (arstechnica.com) Apr 14 Australia-Japan cable upgrade complete (itwire.com) Apr 12 Kyoto University lectures to go on YouTube (Yomiuri) Apr 05 Japan's garrulous bloggers go strangely silent (The Age) Apr 03 Sharp rise in suicide gas deaths / Online forums promoting method that is also killing innocents nea (Yomiuri) Mar 31 Cell phone users to get more choices / Will be able to switch firms, retain handset (Yomiuri) Mar 28 Winny copyright infringers 'should be identified' (Yomiuri) Mar 26 NTT says Japan joining giant trans-Pacific cable (AFP) Mar 25 Google Revamps Japan Site (PC World) Mar 23 DoCoMo phones to get simpler OS (Yomiuri) Mar 23 Wonders and woes of online wooing (Japan Times) Mar 21 Online bullying sweeping Japan (Asian Pacific Post) Mar 21 Blog Catapults Japan's New Literary Star (The Age) Mar 19 Man admits creating Web virus, spreading via copyright footage (Yomiuri) Mar 16 Global smackdown against cyber piracy now includes Japan (CNET) Mar 15 Japan finds 38,000 websites in bullying study (AFP) Mar 11 Top brands lose from web fakes in Japan (Financial Times) Mar 11 Govt asks NTT to cut fiber-optic fees further (Yomiuri) Mar 07 Distrust stymies online network (Asahi) Mar 06 Japan's Fastest Wireless Network (Forbes) Mar 04 Sony to add Skype service to PSP in March in Japan (Reuters) Mar 04 Scam threat looms for online banking (Asahi) Mar 04 Web directory connects artisans and customers (Asahi) Mar 03 MVNOs ring changes in cell phone services (Yomiuri) Mar 03 Web firms restricting heavy users (Yomiuri) Feb 29 New bill holds ISPs and webmasters responsible for child prostitution on dating sites (Mainichi) Feb 29 Google and other telecoms to build U.S.-Japan cable (CNET) Feb 29 Unauthorized Internet access jumps 10 times in 3 years: police (Kyodo) Feb 26 SingTel, others to build $300mln submarine cable system (Reuters)