(AP) -- Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" - the translation of tweet - and give mini-blogging a distinctly ...

As Twitter Japan gets going upon its launch Tuesday night (California time), one of the things that observers are going to be most closely watching is whether or not Japanese users accept the ads that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It has been a wild week for social media gurus, that is for sure. If you have kept up with Twitter ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro ...

Japanese Twitter users are second only to the Dutch in activity on Twitter, and Japanese is the most tweeted language after English. Now this: news that the most tweeted moment in history is not a ...

An 18-metre tall statue of popular TV animation hero, Gundam flashes its eyes at a press preview at a Tokyo park on July 10, 2009. The huge statue of life sized robot hero stands for the commemoration ...

The absence of measures to control online hate speech discourages freedom of expression among ethnic minorities in Japan, especially resident Koreans, according to a series of reports published by ...

TOKYO — The first wave of terror struck shortly before 3 p.m. on a Friday. “The ground, the thing that doesn’t move, was moving,” recalled Tomoko Sudo, who ...

The Japanese government on Wednesday hosted a panel in Tokyo on allowing emergency “911” calls to be placed through social networks such as Twitter during natural disasters. The national Fire and ...

TOKYO -- A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter ...