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Let's Get a Foursquare Limited Tokyo Badge!
The smartphone location sharing service Foursquare has added the “Sakura Badge,” limited to the Tokyo area. This is the first appearance of a limited badge from Foursquare in Japan. The conditions …
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Not Only Tokyo - Twitter Japan Adds 6 More Japanese Cities On Trending Topics
Twitter added more choices of cities on its trending keywords in Japan on February 2. There were only all-Japan and Tokyo rankings before. 6 cities, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sendai …
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Nobu-nyaga's Ambition Steps Into Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
Koei Tecmo [J] has made a contract with Taiwan’s Cayenne Entertainment Tchnology and have announced that they will develop their currently offered social game “Nobu-nyaga’s Ambition” for Yahoo! …
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CyberAgent's "Ameba" Tops 20 Million Users
CyberAgent [J] announced on December 30th of 2011 that the number of users of their “Ameba” [J] community has topped 20 million. To commemorate this momentous development of the “Ameba” service, they …
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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 …
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Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 4 Million Members
Pixiv, the most popular of Japan’s many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on …
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Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book
Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger …