FUKUOKA, Japan, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyushu University and PicoCELA Inc., both based in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have successfully developed and put into use technology to build a wide-area wireless LAN at a drastically reduced cost. The newly developed wireless multihop backhaul connects multiple wireless LAN access points to make them work with one another as a single radio network, cutting back on installation costs by reducing wiring for Internet connection.

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All Nippon Airways and StarFlyer have announced that they will begin codesharing on four daily flights between Tokyo's Haneda Airport and Osaka's Kansai Airport from November 1, 2008.

Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 16 June - Police have arrested three people on suspicion of threatening via electronic bulletin boards to carry out attacks, including murder, since the 8 June stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara district, the National Police Agency said Monday.

By MARY ROURKE By Mary Rourke Los Angeles Times Yone Minagawa, recognized as the world's oldest living person, died Monday at a hospital in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan, according to news reports. She was 114. The cause of her death was old age.