Japan
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Amazon Japan Mistakenly Teases Kindle Pages, But No Japanese E-Books
Amazon Japan, who has not been able to launch its long-awaited e-book reader/platform Kindle for years, leaked something related with Kindle on its website around September 3, just a couple of days …
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One Social Network, Two Different Stories: Qualitative Analysis of Facebook Users in Japan and the US
Since we are getting ready to conduct a large scale cross-cultural survey about social media, as a first step, we qualitatively analyzed how Americans and the Japanese use Facebook. Although …
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Nico Nico Douga Hits 28 Million Users, Generates US$46 Million In Sales Last Quarter
Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s answer to YouTube, is still growing nicely, five years after launch. Dwango, the Tokyo-based company behind the popular service, released its financial report [PDF] for …
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Facebook Usage in Japan: Then and Now (August, 2012)
My students and I (Adam Acar) have been constantly monitoring the Japanese social media landscape as part of our social media seminar. After checking the demographic distribution of Facebook users in …
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Play Game On Spreadsheet! Japanese Coffee-Soda Promotion
Japan’s beverage vendor Suntory’s new promotion site [J] for its carbonated coffee drink Espressoda [J] is an action game on web browser, which you can play at office, as the game looks …
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Mixi Page's New Campaign Song With Gals And 7yo DJ
Japanese social network giant Mixi collaborates with the large summer festival of gals under the name of “Campus Summit 2012 meets mixi”. According to the event page, Campus Summit is a …
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Automatic Garbage-Catch Dust Bin
A guy made an intelligent trash bin which catches thrown garbage and shows how he designed and constructed it on Nico Nico Douga. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18391671
