Digital | ON: TECH Jul 14, 2019
Small changes for big differences
National Aug 13, 2018
Rescue dogs equipped with cameras to search for survivors in western Japan's rain-hit areas
Rescue dogs tasked with finding survivors in disaster-hit areas of western Japan have a new gadget — a small camera with a built-in microphone that enables handlers to see clearly inside the collapsed houses that only canines can enter. The high-tech system used by Tokyo's ...
Business May 31, 2018
Canon Inc. has put an end to more than 80 years of its film camera business. The company recently announced on its website the end of sales of the EOS-1v, its last remaining film camera model, as inventories ran out. Canon ceased production of the ...
Business / Corporate May 17, 2018
Sharp's lens unit CEO sees path to defying smartphone slowdown
by Yuki Furukawa
The mobile phone industry may be in a midst of a slump, but a unit of Sharp Corp. is forecasting growth thanks to the race by smartphone makers to wow customers with high-quality photos. Kantatsu Co., a maker of camera lenses for Apple Inc. and ...
Business Feb 1, 2018
Instant cameras growing popular with Japanese photo-sharing fans hungry for 'instagenic' shots
Instant cameras are making a comeback in Japan as the colorful, boxy film-based devices capture the hearts of young women. The cameras, which let people print photos on the spot, offer new ways to enjoy online photo-sharing as well, helping them defy the sales slump ...
Digital | ON: TECH Oct 15, 2017
by Chiho Komoriya
Haro, the cute robot mascot of the anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam," is about to get real.
National | AT A GLANCE Oct 6, 2016
Head-turning camera puts new spin on Tokyo tourist sites
by Yoshiaki Miura
Talk about revolutionary. Ricoh's Theta S camera shoots 360 degrees and turns out head-spinning spherical images when paired with an image-processing app. The camera, which has two lenses, can be hand-held or triggered by remote control. It turns well-known Tokyo tourist sites into scenes of ...
Business / Corporate Jul 8, 2013
Nikon Corp. is looking at ways to tap smartphone growth as a slump in compact camera sales threatens to prevent earnings from meeting forecasts. Point-and-shoot camera sales across the industry dropped about a quarter in April and May from a year earlier, President Makoto Kimura ...