TOKYO (Reuters) - Akihiro Adachi, a 31-year-old audiovisual equipment designer at Panasonic Corp, longed for some personal space during his lengthy train rides from Osaka to Tokyo. So when his company ...

HAKONE, Japan – As Japan’s ailing electronics manufacturers continue to lay off engineers by the thousands, the next move here is a focus of intense speculation around the global electronics industry.

While authorities are continuing to grapple with the devastation of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan, a new summary from IHS iSuppli identifies the impact of the temblor on Japan’s global ...

MULTIPLE CITIES: Short-term disruptions to the Japanese electronics supply chain are to be expected, but history indicates minimal long-term impact, writes David Keene of Digital Signage Weekly. What ...

Japan has an increasingly contentious relationship with drone technology, so Lapis Semiconductor created a beautiful Origami-style UAV to help win over the public. Adam Bolton is a contributor for ...

Two of Japan's largest electronics companies last week said they will divest their semiconductor operations to boost their presence in capital markets. At the same time, another venerable Japanese ...

Companies in Japan’s all-conquering export industries, like cars and consumer electronics, now have to worry more about competition with their own kind than with foreign firms. Matsushita and Sony, ...

For those of you who haven’t been following Japan’s on-again, off-again ban of the sale of uncertified used electronics, Japanese vintage gear lovers have been in an uproar. Resellers were enraged, ...

FOR Sony it was a bittersweet moment. On July 1st the firm bid a final farewell to its Vaio personal computers, a global brand which won such a devoted following after its launch in 1996 that the late ...