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The top tech stories of 2016

All across Japan people were fixated on their smartphones trying to catch augmented-reality cartoon characters via the 'Pokemon Go' app, which inevitably led to some accidents and lectures on phone etiquette. | BLOOMBERG

All across Japan people were fixated on their smartphones trying to catch augmented-reality cartoon characters via the 'Pokemon Go' app, which inevitably led to some accidents and lectures on phone etiquette. | BLOOMBERG

Dec 30, 2016

The Japan Times newsroom selected these tech and digital stories as the most important of 2016.

1. All systems go: For a few weeks in the summer, it seemed to be all that anyone was talking about was “Pokemon Go,” an augmented-reality game you play on your phone. The game was the result of a collaboration between Nintendo and Niantic.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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