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iTunes Selling Bootleg Of Japanese Techno Star Makes Labels Worried
GAME by Perfume According to ITMedia [J], Internet Watch [J], Asahi [J] and more coming, 11 songs of Perfume’s album “Game” are found to be sold on iTunes store, which turned out to …
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Japanese Government Site For Whistle-blower Finally Launches, Still Insists Non Existing ".com"
As we reported [1][2], Japanese government opens a website for people to inform wasted tax money or irrational rules issues directly to them. The domain name, after squatted, is …
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Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China
Japan’s biggest, and the world second largest e-commerce company Rakuten, which is also known by its active overseas activities in last years as a Japanese originated web company, announced its …
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The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei) [Wikipedia], one of the most influential industrial newspaper in Japan, who had declared its digital version launch plan for this spring on its January 3rd …
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Spysee's web campaign: Collect 1 million Yen for Japan's Paralympics ski team
Here’s a news item of a different kind: The next Winter Paralympics, basically the Winter Olympics for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, will be held in Vancouver between March 12 …
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Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon
By Asahi Shimbun’s report [J], I came to know this Japan version of the famous internet prank had been planned. It is not a subway but a JR Yamate line train, on January 10th Sugamo police …
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Gree To Open Social Application Platform
The largest mobile social network Gree announced [J] that their new GREE Connect (tentative name) platform starting this April 2010. Mixi Appli, an OpenSocial specification based API was officially …
