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Greater Tokyo Planned Blackout Time Checker By Zipcode
Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday that it would conduct its first-ever rolling blackout from Monday to help prevent an unexpected large-scale power outage after a powerful earthquake shut two …
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After The Quake: Grassroots Movements In The Japanese Internet Community
A massive earthquake attacked the north-eastern part of Japan on Friday afternoon. Many JSDF troops, fire fighters and foreign rescue workers have been deployed in devastated areas, their physical …
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Japan Earthquake On The Web
[Update] Asiajin authors in Tokyo are okay. Our main writer Serkan Toto was at New Tokyo International Airport. People evacuated outside. Serkan had to stay at Narita and seeking flight for SXSW. …
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Docomo Merges i-Mode And Smartphone Businesses
There is no reason for i-mode provider NTT Docomo to give up on its highly profitable mobile Internet service for feature phones as long as it makes money, but Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is …
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Tokyo Girls Collection Aired On YouTube Live Streaming
One of Japan’s largest fashion show, Tokyo Girls Collection held its 12th event today at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Apart from other fashion events exclusively for fashion designers and apparel …
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Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
Yahoo! Mobage [J], a joint PC social game platform by two Japanese web gorillas Yahoo! Japan and DeNA, announced [J] that the number of their users passed over three million in 5 months since its …
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Steply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Last August, I was invited to attend Startup Saturday, a Hong Kong’s first ever remarkable tech start-up event, by Takeshi Hirano, the editor and writer for TechCrunch Japan, during his …
