A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs (Published 2015)
A tarp covers an abandoned house, at left, that was torn down this year in Yokosuka.Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times YOKOSUKA, Japan — Ever since her elderly neighbor moved a decade ago, Yoriko Haneda has done what she can to keep the empty house she left behind from becoming an eyesore. Ms. Haneda regularly trims its shrubs and clips its narrow strip of grass, maintaining its per
Chemical Suicides, Popular in Japan, Are Increasing in the U.S. (Published 2011)
Chemical Suicides, Popular in Japan, Are Increasing in the U.S. In Japan it is known as detergent suicide, a near-instant death achieved by mixing common household chemicals into a poisonous cloud of gas. By some counts, more than 2,000 people there have taken their own lives, inhaling the gas — in most cases hydrogen sulfide — in cars, closets or other enclosed spaces. The police now say they are
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan (Published 2011)
TOKYO � Mark Zuckerberg. Who? Mr. Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. But here in Japan, one of the globe’s most wired nations, few people have heard of him. And relatively few Japanese use Facebook, the global social-networking phenomenon based in Palo Alto, Calif., that re
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader (Published 2009)
TOKYO � In 2001, a fledgling Internet company named Google opened its first overseas office in Japan, eager to tap a huge technology market. But after eight years, Japan is one of a few major countries Google has yet to conquer. The Web giant still trails far behind Yahoo Japan, the front-runner here, operated by the Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank. In a reversal of the rivalry in the U
Love in 2-D (Published 2009)
Nisan didn’t mean to fall in love with Nemutan. Their first encounter — at a comic-book convention that Nisan’s gaming friends dragged him to in Tokyo — was serendipitous. Nisan was wandering aimlessly around the crowded exhibition hall when he suddenly found himself staring into Nemutan’s bright blue eyes. In the beginning, they were just friends. Then, when Nisan got his driver’s license a few m
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