TOKYO - Legislators in Okinawa passed a resolution yesterday expressing "overwhelming indignation" at the alleged rape of a Japanese woman by two American servicemen. The resolution, passed unanimously by the island chain's assembly, said US military leaders were not doing enough to control their thousands of personnel. It demanded "a fundamental review of the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement". AFP
TOKYO - Japan's biggest mobile operator will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the phone in different languages. The application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice and text read-outs of conversations between Japanese and English, Chinese or Korean languages, with a several-second delay, the firm said. Voice-to-text read-outs would soon be available in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai. AFP