Stories about: Bandai

It's summer and kids are on vacation. But in Japan, high-school girls don't hang out at shopping malls or get a suntan at the beach. They become advisory board members to big companies like Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).

On every street corner and underground rail platform in Tokyo, people can be seen peering and prodding at tiny mobile phones. They are connected to the Web through a service called i-Mode. Everyone from teenagers to grandparents uses the phones, occasionally to send e-mail or read news, but mostly to entertain themselves with such offerings as cartoons and astrology. The creator of i-Mode, NTT DoCoMo Inc., now wants to conquer the world by making its service just as popular on the streets of Europe and America.

TOKYO (08/18/2000) - If you thought your cool new WAP (wireless access protocol) handset was the latest and greatest in cellular technology, have we got some bad news for you. Those monochrome-screen phones have suddenly become old-fashioned.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), a unit of Sony Corp., today announced that a group of real-world retailers and video game software producers are investing in its soon-to-be-launched online retail service company PlayStation.com (Japan) Inc.