Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Like Facebook, "The Social Network" Could Not Top On The First Weekend In Japan
Japan weekend box office ranking for January 15th-16th weekend has just been released by Kogyo Tsushinsha [J]. The first weekend of “The Social Network” appeared on 321 theaters both in …
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Apologizes To Japanese Customers For Osechi Trouble
A half month after the ‘osechi’(traditional Japanese New Year food) trouble, Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason appeared on video on the Groupon Japan official blog to offer his …
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Japan To Get Disney Android
Disney Mobile announced [J] to release new Android 2.2 smartphone in February. Disney Mobile is one of few successful MVNOs in Japan. Since 2008, they sell Disney feature phones [J] using Japan #3 …
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A Blogger Taking The Same Vendor Machine Photo For More Than 5 Years
A Japanese blog “Watashi ha Mainichi (no you ni) Jidou Hanbaiki no Shashin wo Totte imasu. Gomen-nasai” [J], which means “I am taking a photo of the vendor machine (almost) every …
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Taglet - Contactless Information Sharing App On Android2.3 NFC
Taglet [J] is a new Android app/service utilizing the latest Android 2.3(Gingerbread)’s new feature - NFC. With the app, you may register any other NFC devices with the service. You may add …
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January 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Early part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) The year 2011 began with Groupon osechi trouble in Japanese web. New year holidays is the period when …
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Facebook Featured On TV Tokyo World Business Satellite
[Update] The video (12:20 min) is available on TV Tokyo website now (maybe for about a week). Last night, Facebook was taken up on the World Business Satellite, a financial/business news on TV Tokyo. …
