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Uniqlo Starts Online Sales in Mainland China
Japan-based casual clothing retailer First Retailing(its brandname, Uniqlo) started its online sales in Mainland China[C], in tie-up with Taobao[C]. Taobao is China’s largest online shopping …
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Sony Transfers Their Video Sharing Site Eyevio To A Startup
Sony will transfer their video sharing site ‘eyeVio’ [JP] to a Tokyo-based startup company called Sprasia on May 29th. Eyevio is a video sharing site which can connect to Sony hardware …
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Pu-pe Girl/Poupeegirl - Online Dress-up-doll Community
Pu-pe Girl is a fast-rising Japanese social community site targeting females, currently 99% of its users are women. The social network is for a certain speciality, having barbie-like dress-up avatar …
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Ex-school Sites Are On Sale For The First Time In Japan's Internet Auction History
A rural town located on the south coast of Hokkaido Island, Niikappu, put four of the town’s unused municipal elementary school sites on sale on Yahoo Auction[J]. The sites consist of school …
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Tezuka Manga Works Come To Your Palm Every Week
Tokyo-based mobile app developer Yappa started distributing the manga works of Tezuka Osamu, with a content distribution technology that the company also used to develop the Sankei Newspaper’s …
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Lotte's $10,000 Dance Contest on YouTube
Fit’s Dance Contest is a contest being held by Lotte, one of the biggest sweets seller in Japan, utilizing YouTube as a platform. An example dance is provided featuring Takeru Satou and Nozomi …
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The RSS-based Service Developer Adds A Twitter-like Business Solution To Line-up
The Tokyo-based tech venture company Modiphi[J] started a twitter-like micro blog service for enterprise use[J] today. The company introduced the same series for consumer use[J] last month, which …
