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E-mail-only friend delivery springs up in Japan
Mixi Nengajou (new year greeting card) is not the only emerging service tries to turn online friendship into real items delivery. This is too much of a coincidence that Mixi, Softbank (owns 40% of …
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When Japanese say Yes, it means No
Well, I am joking. “Yes” means “Yes” here, too, most of the time. However, if you dive deeper into the Japanese web, you may get totally lost in the conversations because of …
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So-net M3 - a community site for doctors
So-net M3 (TSE:2413) is a very profitable and unique company which is providing a community site ‘m3.com’ exclusively for medical doctors. Doctors are restricted by confidentiality, so …
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Source Next takes USB Memory Software Package from CD-ROM
Packaged Software supplier Source Next will start selling their “USB Memory package” application from September 5th, 2008. Under the “U memo series” brand, they will sell …
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Japanese "MAD movies" movement with Niconico/Idolmaster
Idolm@ster(Idol-master, abbrev. Aimasu in Japanese) is originally an arcade network game, then became a XBox360 game which is sold only in Japan. You will be a producer of a virtual 3D girl band and …
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Gal-Moji: leetspeak for Japanese highschool girls
If l33t is an English phenomenon mainly among Geeks, “Gal-Moji” (“Moji” = letters) is the counterpart for Japanese cellphone users, especially teenaged girls. As with …
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"www" has another meaning in Japanese Web
When browsing Japanese websites, especially user-generated ones like BBS, you may see a lot of “w” letter at the end of lines on Japanese text. Such like, “Blablabla www” Do …
