Mario’s 25th Anniversary special edition red Wii helped Wii sales boost in Japan this week, helping Nintendo push 39,308 Wii consoles out the door, up a considerable amount from last week’s 11,521.
Unfortunately for everyone’s favorite plumber, the release of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together on the PSP helped propel the PSP into the top hardware sales spot, bringing the number up from last week’s 34,538 to 40,538.
World’s third largest economy Japan plans to pilot electronic textbooks in primary schools soon to improve the role of IT in classroom teaching, media reports said.
Toshiba is going after the entry-level external hard drive market with its line of Canvio Basics hard drives.
The Tokyo Game Show has a lot of people wearing dark glasses this year, with the buzz turning 3-D at the annual event that brings together the latest offerings from game-machine and software makers.
Sony's PlayStation 3 game console will work as a Blu-ray disc player for 3-D movies and music videos, not just 3-D games, with a software update download starting Sept. 21.
A consortium of Japanese companies is developing a CPU for electronics that will use 70 per cent less energy than conventional chips and run on solar energy.
Electronic and IT giants Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic, NEC and Hitachi, along with imaging specialist Canon, are among the firms that have agreed to work on the so-called ‘super CPU’.
A government agency is planning to ban copying of DVD and Blu-ray movies, even if it is done in the home for the purchaser's own use.
The production and distribution of programs to decrypt commercially produced discs would also be prohibited under legislation being prepared by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
All-girl pop idol group AKB48 swept the single CD sales chart for 2011, capturing the top five slots, music information provider Oricon Inc. said Sunday.
At sweet sixteen, Japanese pop phenomenon Hatsune Miku has her whole life ahead of her. In fact, she may have an eternity, because unlike her rivals she hasn’t aged a bit since her 2007 debut. And there are no tantrums or tiaras either, despite a number-one album. This teen only needs electricity.
Japan is proving that it doesn't have to export flesh-and-blood talent to fill a popular Los Angeles venue, but can do so through digital magic and a "kawaii" virtual talent.
The virtual pop star Hatsune Miku "played" the sold-out Nokia Theater on July 2, as some 6,000 admirers stood and clapped along.
Displaying its growing popularity across Asia, a 14-year-old junior high school student from Thailand took home the championship in a vocaloid-themed costume play competition held Oct. 23 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Mine's Motor Sports is a tuning firm based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.