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Lady Gaga Kicked Out From YouTube By Uploading SMAP Program
Lady Gaga’s Japan visit was a sensation, left a lot of news with celebrities including Japanese’ Ophra Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, prime minister Naoto Kan and SMAP, long-time ruling boys unit. …
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Apple Lowering iPhone App Store Prices For Yen: 115 becomes 85
Japanese Yen has been staying high against US dollars, especially last year. Apple finally thinks its 115 yen(US$1.45) is too much for $0.99 apps. @kokubucamera reported [J] that all 115 yen iOS apps …
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Twitter Finally Supports Japanese Hashtag
Official Japanese Twitter blog announced [J] today that Twitter is now capable of Japanese character hashtags. Now when you use # or its Japanese version ＃ followed by Japanese keywords on your …
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Japan's Daily Coupon Market: Is Groupon About To Lose Its Top Position To Ponpare?
Japan’s market for daily coupon services is heating up. It has been pretty much a two-horse race for months now, with Groupon Japan as the top player in the market and Recruit’s Ponpare …
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Nielsen: Evernote And Dropbox See Significant User Growth In Japan
Certain American startups do pretty well in Japan, if a report issued today by Nielsen Japan (NetRatings) is to be believed (as with all web statistics providers, take the following numbers with a …
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie's Last Nude! Before Imprisonment
ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who had got over 2 years imprisonment, broadcasted his road to jail on Nico Nico Live(Namahousou), but his desire for exhibitionism seems beyond that. …
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Amazon Japan To Hire Japanese College Graduates For The 1st Time Next Spring
Rakuten is still the 800-pound gorilla in Japan’s e-commerce arena (70 million accounts are hard to beat), but Amazon Japan is doing pretty well, too, it seems (here’s a case study …
