Japan
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2-channel Founder Exempted From Prosecution For Assisting Drug-Dealer
ITMedia reported that today March 19 Tokyo Local District Court dismissed a case filed last December that Hiroyuki Nishimura, a founder of Japanese giant anonymous bulletin board service 2-channel, …
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Yahoo! Japan Starts Offering A Migration Tool For Google Reader Users
Yahoo! Japan released a new tool for users of Google Reader, discontinue of which on July 1 was announced on 14th, to migrate their reading RSS feeds to My Yahoo! The tool also handles iGoogle data, …
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Rakuten's New Grocery Delivery Service Expantion Troubled In Poor Operation
Rakuten Mart, a new online grocery delivery service run by Japan’s giant e-commerce mall company Rakuten, expanded its delivery areas in Greater Tokyo on March 11, is failing to deliver the …
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NASA and JAXA Runs Character Contest
GPM Anime Challenge is an anime character making contest run by NASA and JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Overview Anime is a Japanese style of animation popular around the world. Anime …
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Otagei - Too Much Trained Audience' Dance In Japan
They are not artists, just regular Japanese mostly girls idol fans who buy tickets, chant and dance from auditorium to try to let their icons recognize them. Their performance is called …
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Nikkei Reports Docomo To Copy KDDI's Successful Android App Subscription Program "Smart-Pass"
Nikkei Business reported as a “breaking news” today [J] that Japan’s largest telco NTT Docomo is planning to start the fixed rate Android app subscription service such like #2 …
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Apple Finally Sells Japanese e-Books On iBooks
iBooks had been providing only foreign books and public domain free books from Aozora Bunko (Japanese version of the Project Gutenberg). via AppBank
