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Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming "Soon"
Amazon Japan’s top page is showing a new text banner that says its e-book reader Kindle will be sold in Japan soon, today on June 26. The time it was displayed seemed around 15:15, 30 minutes …
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Yahoo! Japan's Hosting Company First Server Suffering Massive Down - Possible Data Lost?
First Server, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, has been having service troubles since around 17:30 June 20. There are several web services observed to be down, who explained on temporary error pages that …
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Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani Publishes A Book "Englishnization"
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japan’s largest online e-commerce mall Rakuten, announced [J] on his twitter account that his new book on how he is letting his company and employees adapt to English. …
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Yahoo Japan Teams Up With Recipe Portal Cookpad
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website with 1.6 billion page views per day, will enter a partnership with Cookpad, a popular recipe site, according to a report by business daily The Nikkei. …
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Anti-Cyber Attack Alert System "DAEDALUS" Looks Very "Ghost In The Shell"-ish
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) announced “DAEDALUS” (Direct Alert Environment for Darknet And Livenet Unified Security) system on June …
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2nd Part Of Romance Sims Series "My Forged Wedding" Released
Voltage [J] has released “My Forged Wedding,” an English version of “Chikai No Kisu Wa Totsuzen Ni♪” (Suddenly Kiss of Vow) as the second part of the North American romance simulation game “Romance …
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Yahoo! Japan To Close Yahoo! Kukuru, Naver Matome Rip-off
Yahoo! Japan, the largest website in the country, who holds a lot of successful sub-services under its brand, announced today the termination of their Yahoo! Kururu, user-generated summary site. The …
