Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Mixi Gives Up New "Search Friends By E-mail Address" Feature After Harsh Rejection
On November 30th, Mixi, Japanese counterpart of Facebook, one of the three biggest Japanese social network service, introduced a new feature [J, requires Mixi log-in], which allows you to search your …
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El Shaddai - The Latest Japanese Internet Meme
El Shaddai - Ascension of the Metatron - [J] is a Playstation3/Xbox360 action game. The game having the Hebraic name of God is planned to be released in 2011 so at this point there are only an …
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Chrome Music Mixer - Google Japan Lets You Mix "Happy Birthday"
Google Japan launches a new service “Chrome Music Mixer” [J] to promote Google Chrome browser. # may only play inside Japan You may choose four tracks of music video from a lot of …
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A Guy Sells Salt As Amphetamine Online, Earned $178,000
The Hyogo police arrested a Nagano guy in September under a charge of running 60 of internet bulletin boards for users to buy and sell illegal drugs online. [/caption] “No Drug” campaign …
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Amazon Japan Running Anime-Porn Game Character Contest
When in Japan do as the Japanese do. Amazon Japan, one of the most successful foreign web companies in Japan, understands good localization. At the year end, they run a user vote contest to set the …
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ex-Google Japan President Starts A New Company Alex
Koichiro Tsujino, who served as Google Japan’s president, which was an exceptional position in Google, resigned this April, has just begun his new venture, Alex [J]. On the Alex’s board …
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November 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of November news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. DeNA Invests And …
