Japan
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Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon
By Asahi Shimbun’s report [J], I came to know this Japan version of the famous internet prank had been planned. It is not a subway but a JR Yamate line train, on January 10th Sugamo police …
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Gree To Open Social Application Platform
The largest mobile social network Gree announced [J] that their new GREE Connect (tentative name) platform starting this April 2010. Mixi Appli, an OpenSocial specification based API was officially …
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Asiajin Meets Chili: Akky Presents Japanese Tech Scene At Taipei's Tech Community
Nii-hao, Taiwan! Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto is now in Taiwan. On Saturday, he was invited to have a presentation on Japanese social media and tech scenes at Chili Ideas Party, a serial meet-up …
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Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads
Japan’s second largest ad agency Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Sony CSL’s spin-out specializing in developing location detection technology with WiFi signals Koozyt and the country’s …
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"Google Is Nothing Special" Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy
An interview to the president of Yahoo! Japan Masahiro Inoue (photo) by Nikkei Business Magazine with a catchy title “Google? I think none of their services are cool.” is getting huge …
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Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly
Japanese “social illustration site” Pixiv continues to amaze. The site, which lets users present self-made drawings to other users and offers a number of basic social networking …
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Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon’s company which manages and sells cloud computing services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc., is turned out to open its Japanese subsidiary Amazon Data Services …
