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2-channel Founder And Affiliate Companies Gets Police Raid Around Drug-Dealers Comment Deletion
NHK [J], Asahi [J], Yomiuri [J]and others reported today that about 10 of Japan’s massive anonymous bulletin board service 2-channel-related homes and offices, including its founder Hiroyuki …
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Japan's Youngest Female Mayor Complained Media On Facebook. The Media Fusses
Naomi Koshi, a mayor of Ohtsu, Shiga-prefecture, who recorded the youngest female mayor when she was elected this January 2012, was reported by several national papers that she “moaned” …
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"Transformers For GREE" New Social Game Release
Interspace, [J] Takara Tomy Entamedia, [J] and GREE [J] have released the new social card battle game Transformers for GREE [J] for feature phone from February 10th. “Transformers for GREE” is a card …
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NHN Japan's LINE App Hits 20 Million Users - After Just 8 Months
20 million - that’s the amazing number of users that LINE, a communication app made by NHN Japan, just hit. The free voice call/messenger app for iOS and Android just took eight months to reach …
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Allatanys - Three Major Japanese Newspapers' Online Challenge Silently Taken Down
Allatanys, an website where you may read headline news from three of Japan’s most published newspapers in parallel, run by Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei, has ceased yeasterday, …
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Japanese Government Warns Google Around Its New Privacy Policy
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI) announced [J] on February 29 that they jointly notified to Google that its privacy policy which …
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"Shirotsuku" Holds Tie-Up Event With Tokyo Dome City Attractions
Cave [J] is hosting “Atoraku E Ikou,” [J] an event for their location information mobile game “Shirotsuku” in partnership with the Tokyo Dome Company’s integrated amusement establishment “Tokyo Dome …
