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Make Tokyo Meeting 03: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Last weekend at Hachioji Campus of Digital Hollywood University in Tokyo’s surburb, “Make” magazine’s readers and gadget inventors came together and held an annual meeting …
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Giant Partnership of Game and Ad Sets Off New Wave Of Video Broadcast
Coincidentally I write up several stories featuring video services using media other than terrestrial TV broadcast system in this Japan’s serial holidays season. Nintendo and the world’s …
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Promotion Character Battle: Digital Deer vs. Analog Bear
Since Tsuyoshi Kusanagi stepped down from the role promoting digital terrestrial TV service (see this for more details), NAB, the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, were forced …
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Nico Nico Douga Introduces Its iPhone/iPod App
Niwango[J], the owner of Japan’s most popular video sharing site “Nico Nico Douga[J]”, released its iPhone/iPod appon Monday. The app is for free and available only at Japanese …
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Major Publishers Co-launch Non-UGC Encyclopedia Site
Asahi Newspaper, the Internet portal company EC Navi[J] and major publishers like Kodansha and Shogakukan jointly launched Thursday an online encyclopedia containing 430,000 words, which is called …
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Amateur Paparazzis Livecast A Pop Star Under Arrest For Indecent Exposure
As you might hear from the news, the Japanese pop star Tsuyoshi Kusanagi（草彅剛, a.k.a. 초난 강 or Chonan Gang in South Korea）, a member of popular group SMAP[J], was arrested Thursday for public indecency …
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Another Way To Have Mobile Broadband, It's Neither WiMax Nor HSDPA
Japan’s only PHS operator Willcom announced today it would start trial of new high-speed mobile data service next week, which is called XGP and enables logically 20Mbps Internet access not only …
