There is no right way or wrong way.
Looks yummy tonkatsu. There need to be karashi mustard.
Photo by zoo_200
And why iPhone 4 looks familiar to Japanese people (via @miyagawa)
You can check how these gates are working on this movie, Tokyo train IC card system. Some use card, another use cellphone.
Probably first in the world history?
Oricon(Japanese Billboard)'s [J] CD album chart in 5th week of May 2010 reported that the week's No.1 was "EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku" [J, Amazon Japan], which is a compilation album by Vocaloids, a series brand for several voice synthesis software packages based on Yamaha's technology published by Crypton Future Media, Inc. [J] and others.
# No.3, 4 and 5 were Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha by the way
It is reported [J] that the all artificial vocal album taking the No.1 is the first in history.
Songs and videos made with the Vocaloid software is one of the mainstream sector on Japanese user generated video, especially on a mega video sharing site NicoNico Douga. Most of those songs were written by amateur composer who play around there.
The number of the sold CD was 23,153 in a week. That is "lowest sales ever in Oricon chart history" analysed by a fan blog [J] of Hatsune Miku, the most popular Vocaloid character. There have been many Vocaloids' compilation albums by the label [J], and one was sold more in one week, 56,000 copies but ranked at 4th at that time. So recent declining of Japanese CD sales may lower the bar. But anyway this is a historic achievement, and it was likely supported by web users.
Here is the promotion video of the album from NicoNico Douga,
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Japan is increasing Twitter addicts everyday. Percentage of Japanese tweets is now about 20% and chasing USA's 27% (by TweetSentiments).
On May 30th, a Japanese girl cosplayer(= costume player, person whose hobby is wearing fictional characters costume) Jekyll Yui [J], who had been sending 50-250 tweets everyday on her Twitter account @_01 [J], stopped tweeting over 24 hours after the last tweet "Sigh..." [J].
Then few of her followers (fans I assume) sent e-mails and made phone calls to her but got no response. They started worrying and asking people to redistribute their tweet requesting her whereabouts.
The request spread like wildfire among Japanese users. However, about 5 hours later, she tweeted that she had slept at a station [J].
@_01 reported later [J] that someone contacted to her father via her apartment's manager. The father eventually called her to check if she was okay. They spread her address and real name via Twitter direct messages, which she expressed uncomfortable after knowing. Another follower was rumoured to head to her town.
@_01 tweeted "Twitter is a scary place", then said "As such scary things happen, I cannot stop tweeting".
Related tweets arranged on Togetter [J] One of the first caller for seeking seems to quit the account.
Japanese e-shopping mall colossus Rakuten, who are cooperating with China No.1 Search Engine Baidu to open joint e-mall in Chinese web, disclosed their Chinese name [J].
The three Chinese letters, pronounced the same "Rakuten" are consist of original "Rakuten" in Japanese two letters and a new letter at the middle of original two.
The first letter may look very different, it was simplified in mainland China, and means enjoyable in Japanese.
The second letter newly added in Chinese one means "cruel" in Japanese but Rakuten explains that the letter means "cool" in China.
The original Japanese version letters have been used in China by South Korean-Japanese food and shopping conglomerate Lotte. So there are localization conflict of brands. Interestingly, both Rakuten and Lotte own a baseball team in the same league (Pacific league) in Japan.
Twitter API seems down and many Twitter client authors are trying to say it is not their bugs but Twitter's glitch. Twitter official URL shortener experiment may be the cause of this trouble.
At the same time, mobile.twitter.com seems to accept maximum 140 bytes, which had been 140 letters. It is the same for English users but as one Japanese letters (in UTF-8) uses 3-4 bytes, now you can only make about 40 letters tweet. (I once wrote how much Japanese 140 letters can express complicate things.)
Here, a tweet with 5 times of "1234567890" in Chinese number, i.e. 50 letters, is rejected.
Japan has another official mobile websites twtr.jp, but I am unable to connect it. So it is unknown how wide this specification change (or bug) are happening.
PC version twitter.com works okay with 140 "letters" Japanese. And there should not be strong reason for Twitter to be harsh on Japanese(Chinese, Thai, etc.) users, so I hope this is just a newly created bug, as they are touching something on letter counting part. Length should matter!
via @matsuu [J]
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