Japan
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DeNA Recruits Legendary Japanese Game Designers Into "Super Creators" Initiative
In a press conference yesterday, DeNA announced [J] the formation of the “Super Creators” initiative, an all-star team of five veteran game designers from the traditional Japanese games …
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Colish Gives Roommate-Matching A Different Spin
You may have heard of the launch of a roommate matching service Colish yesterday. It’s a project born out of Startup Weekend Tokyo in May, that provides a meeting point for like-minded people to …
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Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags
Official Twitter blog announced [J] that Twitter is capable of Japanese character hashtags. (our post reported it) Then, a lot of Japanese Twitter users started strange wordplay. This is a trend …
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Web Reactions - Japan Analog TV Ends Its 58 Years History
All Japanese analog terrestrial television broadcasting were terminated today at 12:00 p.m. July 24 (Japan Standard Time) as planned, aiming more effective radio wave usage by re-assigning their bands …
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Microsoft Japan Introduces Another Anime Girl For Small And Medium Business
Following to the cloud girl Claudia, Microsoft’s Japan local branch tries to appeal their target by using a new character. The Microsoft Virtualization campaign page suggests three Hyper-V …
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Japanese Entrepreneurs: Get The Last Spot In The "Tofu Project" To Go To America
Are you a Japan-based entrepreneur interested in taking part in a 7-day design thinking and innovation boot camp that will take place in October in California? Then you should head over to the …
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iPhone App Helps You Predict Next Vacant Seat On Commuting Train
This app can be used everywhere, but probably it is only needed in Tokyo. Densha de Suwaru (sitting down on train) by Velc is a newly released free iPhone application to make your own database of …
