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Two manga-style news are launching within a month in Japan.

Manga no Shimbun

Manga no Shimbun(Manga Newspaper) is a website offers news in Japanese comic style, launched October 15th 2009 by KaBa Net [J].

News about US president Obama's Japan visit

Manga no Shimbun covers four categories, Politics/Economy, International, Society and Entertainment/Sports.

On the launch announcement [J], also in manga by (probably) the chief of editor, he says they have plans for cellphone sites, multi-language translation to English, French, Korean, etc.

Nihon IT Manga Shimbun

Nihon IT Manga Shimbun (Japan IT Manga Newspaper) seems to start on November 12th 2009 by Trend Pro [J]. There are no official release found and the site tells “Open Beta”.

News about Firefox 5th anniversary

This site, as the site title implies, only has IT related news, however, the top-right tabs, currently disabled says, “Economic” and “Politics” so these two other categories might appear soon.

In the country where huge number of comics are published, where not only kids but many adults read them, it is wise to reach people in manga style, I think.

See Also:

KaBa Net launch release [J, pdf]

Tags: Japan, New Service by Akky Akimoto
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Tvitter [J] is a Twitter client widget for Sony LCD Television Bravia.

Some of latest versions of Bravia support AppliCast platform, on which user can program their own original widgets.

Bravia user can go on her/his Bravia to this URL http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Taiken/Appli/ , install the widget, and check the latest tweets and post to twitter on your television in a living room. It seems only Japanese version is available with Japanese menu. If you want taste it, “No.0017″ is the number of the application.

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