Cody Taylor

Japanese electronics company Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it will cut 10,000 jobs globally to cope with sinking sales of car audio equipment and flat-screen TVs. It also said it will withdraw from its money-losing plasma display business.

Two Japanese boys have brought a World War II bomb to class, flustering teachers on the island of Okinawa, which was the scene of the Pacific conflict’s bloodiest battle.

Bokeh is an adaptation from a a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in the picture which are not in focus.

IT managers should start familiarizing themselves with a new security tool — the paint brush — as Japanese researchers have come up with a paint that they say will block high-speed wireless signals, giving businesses a cheap option to protect their wireless networks.

The last thing that aging Japan can afford to lose is young people. Yet as the global economic crisis flattens demand for Japanese cars and electronic goods, thousands of youthful, foreign-born factory workers are getting fired, pulling their children out of school and flying back to where they came from. Alarmed, new programs are in place to help.

The Army has decided to cut off retirement pay for veterans of a largely Native militia formed to guard the territory of Alaska from the threat of Japanese attack during World War II. The change means 26 surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard — most in their 80s and long retired — will lose as much as 7 in monthly retirement pay,

Japanese schoolboy golfing sensation Ryo Ishikawa will be aided in his bid to break through on the world stage by a new million-dollar driver.

23,000 Dolphins per year. That’s how many are being slaughtered each year in a hidden cove in Taiji, Japan, and a new documentary at the Sundance Film Festival has the footage to prove it. Barred access to the site, the film crew was forced to buy now utilize covert military tactics and equipment, and they were threatened by local authorities.