Japan
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Fuji TV Starts Twitter Clone Imatsubu (= tweetin' now)
Japan’s major television broadcasting network Fuji TV, who has just generated a topic of conversation [J] among Japanese twitter users with the first Twitter featured TV drama, also launched …
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Gundam Cafe To Be Opened In Akihabara
Japanese character merchandising company Bandai announced it would open Gundam Cafe[J] in Akihabara next weekend, in commemoration with the animation series’ 30th anniversary. The cafe is …
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DPJ To Submit The Bill Removing The Ban Of Internet Election Campaign
Japan’s ruling Democratic Party of Japan(DPJ) decided to submit the bill removing the ban of election campaign using the Internet, which is intend to be applied for the upper house election …
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Mixi Friend-Finder Now Uses Gmail Info via OAuth
Japan No.1 social networking service Mixi, which recently passed 20 million users, announced that their friends invitation page now has “search friends from your gmail” function, in …
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2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds... Japanese Pop
Some Japanese online media on China news reported that the opening theme of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, which is coming next month, is very similar with a Japanese pop song released last century. A …
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Hewlett-Packard Japan's "Maid in Tokyo" Campaign
The world’s No.1 PC vendor Hewlett-Packard(HP)’s Japan branch is running a new campaign “Maid in Tokyo” [J], featuring two girls from Japanese idol unit Aidoringu(made up from …
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KLab Releases Amazon Kindle Compatible Emulator In Open Source
Japanese mobile system/application developer KLab Inc. [J] announced that they had developed a clone of Kindle Developer’s Kit (KDK) and Kindle Emulator. The official KDK has been available for …
