This picture taken on June 28, 2014 shows Japanese mobile communication giant Softbank's humanoid robot "Pepper" (right) chatting to a woman at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in Tokyo. Photo: AFP A ...

April 15 (UPI) --The Japanese Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued Google a cease-and-desist order for violating anti-monopoly law by allegedly striking deals with Android manufacturers to ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is reportedly planning to or has already sent a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC’s Japan office, accusing Google of breaching Japan’s antimonopoly laws by forcing ...

Google is under the microscope again — this time in Japan. The country’s Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against the tech giant, claiming it may have broken Japan’s antitrust ...

KYOTO—A made-in-Japan humanoid that’s part of a project to help the country make up for lost ground in android development got off to a shaky start. A prototype of the robot, developed by Japanese ...

While Americans excel at producing deadly robots of militaristic persuasions, the Japanese are arguably the most competent designers of eerily human-like robots. Behold Kodomoroid and Otonaroid, two ...

The manufacturers behind its surge may be different, but Android's hold over the Japanese smartphone market is as intense as it is in other major territories according to the latest figures published ...