cell phones

Your old cellphone could be destined for Olympic greatness. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Thursday started accepting unwanted digital devices to make medals for the 2020 Games. A box has been installed at City Hall in Shinjuku Ward to collect nine types of devices including cameras ...

Smartphones have spread rapidly in Japan in recent years, but there still seems to be strong demand for feature phones, or so-called "Galapagos" phones, according to recent data. The domestic mobile phone market has been described as the "Galapagos Islands" because handsets come with a ...

New mobile phone entrant Ymobile Corp. unveiled monthly fixed-price service plans Thursday that include voice calling and Internet access to woo newcomers to smartphones with simpler and cheaper contracts. The SoftBank subsidiary, launched in June in a merger with eAccess, which runs Emobile, and Willcom, ...

About 30 percent of victims of indecent assaults in Osaka last year were using cellphones, smartphones or portable music players at the time of the attack, Osaka Prefectural Police investigative sources said. Of some 860 indecent assaults reported in 2012 to the prefectural force, about ...

The smartphone population growing by the day, as are the stores and services following the smart money.

More eye-popping 3D products are set to hit the shelves of Japan soon, and look Ma, no silly glasses!

Publishers adapt to the changin' times and experiment with new digital channels and pay models.

Calling all shoppers: KDDI enters into the growing market of cell-phone sites catering to female consumers on the go.