Japan
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Perfume's Open Dance Data Inspiring CG Creators
In April, we reported that Japanese girls techno unit Perfume opened the motion data of their dance on Github. Fans’ creatives seem to be arriving to the official site. Daihei Shibata lets the …
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2-channel Bans 5 Major Summary Sites From Reusing Its Posts
Some 2-channel(2ch.net) users noticed early morning on June 3 that an unpopular notification page on 2-channel was updated with the warning message against 5 notorious 2-channel watcher blogs. We ban …
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No-nonsense Mascot Character: Handy-Wiper kun
Japan is a country chock full of kawaii characters. People are not easily surprised by new weird characters but, Japanese twitter users call him as “the most practical mascot character”, …
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Nagoya Soccer Team Makes A MIB Parody Poster
Professional Soccer team Nagoya Grampus, which is based in Japan’s third largest city Nagoya, is running a tie-up promotion with the American movie Men In Black 3. Buzzed on blogs and Twitter. …
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Panasonic To Sell Nanoe TV, Which Inhibits Mold And Odor
Panasonic announced that they would ship a new TV of its Viera series. This CF5, which is planned to be sold late June has a Nanoe generator, which converts water into Nanoe Ion wrapped in water …
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"596523:14:07.2147483647" This is where iPhone freezes
Well, sort of. It has been a hobby for a few people at 2ch.net[J], Japan’s biggest anonymous BBS, to show off “how long they could let their iPhone stopwatch running”. On May 29th 2012, …
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The World's First Radiation Counter Cellphone Announced In Japan
Softbank announced today(May 29) that they would ship Pantone 5(107SH) the world’s first smartphone with radiation measure feature in July. By this Sharp’s made Android 4.0 smartphone, …
