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Focuses on the wireless hot spots and lists the top ten hot spots in the world. Comments from Fred Ziari, founder of EZ Wireless, who built a 600-square-mile network of wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) in Hermiston, Oregon; San Diego, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Las Vegas, Nevada; London, England; New York, New York (State); Bay Area, California; Washington, D.C.; Tokyo, Japan; Austin, Texas.

Byline: Kay Itoi Though it happened a decade ago, Masato Naito vividly remembers the moment of discovery. He and fellow art scholars were studying old Japanese paintings in a research [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi In his gadget-filled office at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Prof. Kohji Mitsubayashi tells a visitor to touch a transmitter with one hand and a receiver with [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Watch out, Michelle Wie. Next year another young Asian female is set to turn the world of golf on its head. Ai Miyazato, a 20-year-old sensation from [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Most people, in choosing a new home, look for comfort: a serene atmosphere, smooth walls and floors, a logical layout. Nonsense, says Shusaku Arakawa, a Japanese artist [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi In his gadget-filled office at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Prof. Kohji Mitsubayashi tells a visitor to touch a transmitter with one hand and a receiver with [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi For style snobs headed to Asia, there's only one conceivable guidebook: 'Luxe City Guides, 'reported by local trendspotters and edited and published by a Hong Kong-based former [...]

Byline: William Underhill, Leah Purcell, Ethan Porter, Kay Itoi TRAVEL: SMELL THE FLOWERS By William Underhill Think of grasse and flare your nostrils. Every ancient city boasts its own distinctive [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Are you lonely? do you have trouble getting up on time? Help may be on the way. Last month Mitsubishi Heavy Industries began taking orders for Wakamaru, [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi, George Hackett, Brad Stone, Raina Kelley, Karen Springen LIKE A CHILD WITH SENSE By Kay Itoi Are you lonely? do you have trouble getting up on time? [...]

Byline: Mark Hosenball, Ron Moreau and Hassan Shahriar, Christian Caryl, Kay Itoi and Walter Alarkon, Stryker McGuire and Mark Hosenball, William Underhill, Jennifer Barrett, Ginanne Brownell, Sean Smith, Andrew Romano, [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi For Japanese salarymen, it's a fashion revolution. Just check out Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet meetings. Lately they're looking like a late-night card game among old-timers at [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi in Tokyo It's been another busy day at the office. Your feet hurt. Your neck is stiff. Who has time to get a massage? Busy Japanese are [...]

Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Mary Acoymo in London, Mark Russell in Seoul and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) If you have any doubt about the power of [...]

Byline: Michael Hastings (With Yepoka Yeebo in New York and Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Richard David Story takes his window shopping very seriously. On a recent Manhattan jaunt, the editor [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi What comes to mind when you think of Japan? Sushi, sumo wrestlers, high-school girls in short skirts, tattooed gangsters? Stereotypes, to be sure. But the installation artist [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi For at least part of every year, Makiko Krone is a princess. Dressed in a dramatic evening gown and escorted by a princely young man, she spends [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Pity the poor otaku. Obsessive-compulsive recluses, they are the diehard fans of Japan's world-famous subculture hobbies--anime (animated films), manga (cartoons) and videogames. More comfortable in a virtual [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi and B. J. Lee Eisei Miki, the head monk of Kakurinji Temple in the western Japanese city of Kakogawa, still shivers with anger when he describes the [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi After 12 years of marriage, Ikuko Osada had resigned herself to oblique but endless questions about when she was going to have a baby. Then, at the [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi My friend Masako recently moved out of her parents' home and rented a nice apartment by herself. This meant a shopping spree for basic appliances. But she [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Kaoru Muramatsu is surprisingly typical of the new Japanese market-mom. After packing her three kids off to school, the 37-year-old housewife in Hamamatsu, in central Japan, rushes [...]

On the right as one enters the gallery hangs Gustav Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' (1899), a monumental picture of a sensual female awash in glorious gold and blue. And on the [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi And George Wehrfritz (With KARIN BENNETT in New York) Daiei came to epitomize the industrial sclerosis that befell much of Japan Inc. in the 1990s, a condition [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi One recent morning I got a phone call from a TV production company. 'We're discussing Japanese baseball,' chirped a young woman. 'We'd love to interview one of [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Soichiro Fukutake was strolling through a Claude Monet exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts when he arrived at a large, never-before-exhibited two-panel canvas of waterlilies. He [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi In Tokyo, we live in fear of getting caught putting out gomi, or garbage, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. And the scariest thing about [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi Tomoko Sawada is the Robert De Niro of Japanese photography. Just as the actor gained weight to prepare for his role in 'Raging Bull,' Sawada put on [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi This may be the year of monkey, but Japanese will remember 2004 as the Year of Loser Dogs, thanks to an ongoing national debate. It started with [...]

Byline: George Wehrfritz and Kay Itoi Lines outside Tokyo's trendiest boutiques are a common sight in recession-weary Japan. But recently crowds have started forming at an unlikely venue: a Porsche [...]

Byline: Kay Itoi My friend Ako, visiting for the holidays, noticed immediately. The scenery in Tokyo has improved considerably over the past year. Particularly in the service industry. At designer [...]

HEALTH Flu Fears Take Wing Last year's SARS outbreak terrified people around the world because of how easily the virus could jump from country to country in an age of [...]

Like many of her compatriots, Tokyo housewife Sachi Takeda describes herself as an 'otera [temple] maniac' --a fan of the panels, sculpture and other religious-inspired artwork that can be found [...]