2011-12
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Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year's Eve Midnight
Telecommunications Carriers Association with all 5 Japanese cellphone carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au, Softbank Mobile, Wilcom and e-Access(who runs e-Mobile) issued release on December 21 [J], ask their …
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Twitcmap - Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory
Twitcmap [J], run by a illustration sharing community Tinami [J], is a web service to try to make a huge map of the world’s largest self-publishing comic fair “Comic Market” [J], …
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Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away
Livestar Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online brokerage service issued a released to apologize its trouble started around 10 a.m., during trading time on December 27. Livestar Securities web …
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Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers
SOme 2-channel users tried to translate captions of popular ascii-art, drawing by letters they often post on 2-channel. ,-､ ,.-､ ./:::::＼ ／::::::ヽ /::::::::::::;ゝ–──– ､._/::::::::::::::| …
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Rakuten's Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon
There have been consumers complaining that their Rakuten Super Point, virtual currency circulated in Japan’s largest online shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba and its affiliated services, had been …
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10 Year Lasting LED Bulb Commercial
Toshiba’s new TV ad for its LED bulb depicts a life of Japanese 10 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaVsA-tr7g thanks @tmiz
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Anti-Sleep Driver's Sheet "Sleep Buster" Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep
Tokyo-based Juki Corporation is going to sell an anti-sleep system “Sleep Buster” for driver in 157,500 yen (US$2,000) in February 2012. The product keeps collecting a biological signals …
