Japan
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Nico Nico Douga Hits 1.5 Million Paid Subscribers
Japanese online video sharing service Nico Nico Douga has got 1.5 million paid subscribers on January 3, 2012. Nico Nico Douga, with its unique overlay user-generated comments, is known by …
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Android Highschool - Personified Androids Comic
A manga (Japanese comic) series “Hana no Andoroido Gakuen”(Sweet Android High-school) is a comic depicts the battles of Android handset vendors as a school life with caricatured girls who …
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Japanese Tweets Likely Makes Another World Record On Twitter
As expected, the opening of year 2012 on Japanese Twitter was a full stream of new year’s greetings. After entering into 2012, Twitter, both site and API, went down by heavy load. According …
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Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year's Eve Midnight
Telecommunications Carriers Association with all 5 Japanese cellphone carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au, Softbank Mobile, Wilcom and e-Access(who runs e-Mobile) issued release on December 21 [J], ask their …
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Twitcmap - Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory
Twitcmap [J], run by a illustration sharing community Tinami [J], is a web service to try to make a huge map of the world’s largest self-publishing comic fair “Comic Market” [J], …
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Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away
Livestar Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online brokerage service issued a released to apologize its trouble started around 10 a.m., during trading time on December 27. Livestar Securities web …
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Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers
SOme 2-channel users tried to translate captions of popular ascii-art, drawing by letters they often post on 2-channel. ,-､ ,.-､ ./:::::＼ ／::::::ヽ /::::::::::::;ゝ–──– ､._/::::::::::::::| …
