Japan
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Android Apps For Starbucks-phobia To Practice How To Order Coffee
In Japan, Starbucks Coffee, Subway Sandwich and Ramen Jiro are the shops which make many first visitors feel scared by their mystic words to order. Custaba is a Japanese Android app on which you can …
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Yahoo! Mobage Celebrates 6 Million Uses Registration
Yahoo! Mobage, a joint social game networking service for PC run by Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan and mobile social game giant DeNA, starts a present campaign celebrating its 6 …
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie To Start Mahjong Comic From Jail
Takafumi Horie, an ex-Livedoor CEO who is in Jail since June 9 this year in violation of the Securities and Exchange Law, aka Horienmon, was announced to start a new manga series on fortnightly …
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Rakuten To Shut Down 6 Million Users Zenryaku Profile
Nikkei reports [J] that Rakuten has decided to close its Zenryaku Profile, a social networking site having 6.4 million users and runs for about decade, even before the word “social networking …
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Muji Launches Social Game Muji Life For Global
Toshima-ku/Tokyo-based Japanese consumer goods brand Muji (Mujirushi Ryohin), who operates about 300 shops in over 20 countries around the world, starts a social game Muji Life on November 15 …
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Prosthetic Limbs Aiming Artificial Beauty
Shunji Yamanaka, a well-known Japanese industrial designer and Keio University professor showed a photo of his developing artificial leg for women on his blog [J]. This is yet a mock and you can only …
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Japan's No.1 e-Mall Rakuten Trying To Be Like Twitter/Facebook By Rakuten Profile
Japan’s largest online mall company Rakuten started promoting its unknown service Rakuten Profile [J] since around October 10 to its 62 million members. The service comes with Twitter-like …
