Japan
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Facebook Japan Replaces Its Head Following To Mixi
3 days ago we reported that Mixi is to have a young new president. Now Facebook Japan announced that a new president, according to Markezine [J]. Same as Mixi, this is the first time of presidency …
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Japan's Most Annoying Website To Be Shut Down Soon
ITMedia reports that the notorious website of Aiseikai Hospital is planned to be closed within 2 months, a son of the hospital head revealed on his Twitter account @miya_blu_swing. The tweet [J] has …
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Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman
Mixi, a Japanese local social networking service competing against Facebook, announced today [J] that the founder, president and the largest stockholder Kenji Kasahara is to hand over the presidency …
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The 5 Japanese Cellphones That Changed Mobile World Forever
I’ve read recent article on Wired titled The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our World Forever. To be honest when I’ve checked those phones I felt this article has too narrow view of things. …
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Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons
According to IT Media [J], Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs(ACA, Bunka-chou) reportedly expressed at a symposium that they had given up their original public copyright license CLIP, which …
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Cookpad Switches To Ruby Version 2.0
Cookpad Engineers’ Blog announced [J] today that their web-service has migrated to Ruby 2.0.0-p0, the latest version of Ruby. That Japan’s (and probably the world’s) largest recipe …
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Nisshin Cup Noodle's New TVCM Cynical About (Presumably) Rakuten
Rakuten’s Englishnization has been causing wide repercussions among Japanese business people. Nisshin’s new commercial film “Survive! Globalization” depicts a Japanese company …
