2009-09
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Japanese Cellphone Manual Goes In Manga Comic
Different from other countries where cartoon are mostly for kids, in Japan, manga (Japanese style comic) nation, many grown-up keep reading manga through their lives and eventually almost all kind of …
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Mixi Echo Becomes Mixi Voice To Chase Twitter
Japan’s biggest social network service Mixi [J, registration required], who had started in-service microblog Mixi Echo since last summer, renamed it with Mixi Voice and made it as an …
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Amazon Japan's Counterattacks To Rakuten Books
Amazon Japan v.s. Japan’s local Rakuten battle was recently well covered on TechCrunch (by our buddy Serkan Toto, of course). Amazon is doing pretty good localization on their main part, books, …
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See You, CU
Even Japan’s Web Colossus Yahoo! Japan can easily fail if trying to force real name to Japanese users. The social business networking service Yahoo! CU, which launched November 2008 is …
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New Dating Game Robs Boys Of Loves In Girlfriends
Love Plus[J] is a virtual dating simulation game, which was developed by Konami for Nintendo DS and went on sale at the beginning of this month. This game title attracts an enormous number of game …
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IPO Consulting Firm Launches Trilingual Database Of Japanese Tech Start-ups
On Thursday, Tokyo-based consulting firm for tech start-up ventures, Project Ocean LLP[J] launched a trilingual database of Japanese tech start-up companies, which is called Startups Japan. Project …
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YAPC::Asia 2009 A Massive Perl Community Event
Following to the LLTV(annual Lightweight Language Conference in Tokyo) and PHP Conference Japan 2009 (Asiajin’s cover), another sub-1000 attendees class web developer conference YAPC::Asia 2009 …
