Japan
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e-Money Service Edy Rebrands Itself As Rakuten Edy
BitWallet, who runs one of Japan’s most successful e-money service Edy since 2011, who joined the Japan’s largest e-mall group Rakuten in January 2010, 2 years ago, announced [J] that the …
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Istyle(@cosme) Goes IPO On TSE Mothers
(@cosme’s tag line on the logo is “site of everyone’s word of mouth”) Istyle [J], who runs Japan’s top cosmetic products review site @Cosme, announced [J] on February 3, …
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Many Hatsune Miku Videos Being Removed From YouTube By Invalid Copyright Report
Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a “singer” for Chrome promotion …
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Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012
2012 version of annual Tokyo Marathon will be held on February 26, with 36,000 runners who luckily win the lottery from 283,988 applicants. At the marathon, one of the official supplier Dole Japan is …
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Takeo-city To Force All Employees To Register And Work On Facebook
Takeo city, in Saga prefecture in Kyushu island, has been known by its net-savvy mayor Keisuke Hiwatashi. As a mayor, he switched the city website onto Facebook page, which gets 50 times more page …
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DeNA Sues Back To Gree And Its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka
DeNA, who runs Mobage, announced today [J] that it instituted legal action to demand Gree and its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka an apology and compensation for the loss caused by Gree’s press release …
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Video: Girl Band JKT48 (AKB48's Sister Band) Promoting Rakuten In Indonesia
JKT48, the Indonesian sister band of ultra-popular Japanese girl group AKB48 (Asiajin), is promoting Rakuten Belanja Online, Rakuten’s joint venture with Jakarta-based media powerhouse PT …
