Its groundbreaking products, like the Sony Walkman and the PlayStation, have impacted the entertainment industry well beyond Japan. Sony was also among the few large Japanese companies to endure ...

About 11,000 DOD civilians working in Japan will be eligible, ranging from commissary employees to DOD teachers and civilian ...

Dominant in the early 1980s until it was overtaken commercially by the compact disc in the early 1990s, the cassette tape has ...

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Two big names in Japanese electronics and autos are joining ... In the 1970s when Sony was developing the Walkman portable audio player, some engineers were skeptical. But Morita insisted people ...

Japan’s top currency official helped lift the yen a touch on Friday after he warned he was keeping a close eye on market ...

The Sony Walkman is a fascinating icon of on-the-go music listening ... download games for their Super Famicom consoles way ...

Even though you won't find them in Japan any more, pagers are still used ... into a cassette player - perhaps a classic Sony Walkman or your granddad's car stereo - press play, and away you ...

But the Walkman enabled us to take it wherever we ... He patented one in 1977 in Italy and the following year in the US and Japan. Then, in July 1979, Sony unveiled its now iconic version which ...

You learn something new every day. And you don't even have to attend a class to do so. You might learn something by accident, ...

For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But ...

While Thomson also has a Sony Walkman-style portable cassette player ... when the devices debuted in Japan, until the music stopped around 2010. Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Bose no longer ...