Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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Japan's First Banana Vending Machine Debuts In Shibuya
The Japanese local subsidiary of international leading banana distributor Dole put the country’s first banana vending machine at an underground shopping mall in Shibuya last week, which draws …
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Pankaku Welcomes i-mode's Father As New Adviser
Tokyo-based smartphone app developer Pankaku[J] announced Mr. Takeshi Natsuno became the company’s adviser today. He started his career in this industry as the vice president for Japan’s …
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Meet-up Call: Startup Dating Preliminary Edition To Be Held Next Tuesday
Usually Asiajin covers what people are doing and have achieved in Japanese and Asian tech communities, but today I’m writing something about what I and my friends will do for accelerating the …
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Spacecraft Carrying Asteroid Sample Returns; Landing Process To Be Ustreamed From Australian Desert
Hayabusa (peregrine falcon in Japanese) is an unmanned space mission to return a sample of material from the asteroid Itokawa. The spacecraft launched from Japan seven years ago, and succeeded to land …
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Four Companies Encourage Developers To Monetize Apps With New In-app Purchase Platform And Investments
Tokyo-based real affiliate service provider Best Create[J], Japan’s largest telecom product distributor Hikari Tsushin, Cyber Agent Investment and SBI Investment[J] launched a new project …
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Sony, KDDI, Asahi And Toppan To Co-launch E-Publisher In July
Sony, Toppan Printing (Japan’s 2nd largest printing company), KDDI(Japan’s 2nd largest telco) and the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper publisher) announced last Thursday that they would launch a …
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Apple And Softbank Mobile Start iPad Sales In Japan On Friday
Apple and Softbank Mobile finally started the sales of the iPad in Japan on Friday. At Apple Store Ginza or one of Apple Japan’s two flagship stores in Tokyo, about 1,200 people were queuing for …
