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Japan's Blockbuster Video wants to to become Japan's Netflix
What Blockbuster Video is to the USA, Tsutaya is to Japan. The company is currently operating over 1,300 video rental stores in this country and boasts 27 million members. Now, Tsutaya finally came to …
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Japanese company rebuilds old Tokyo in Second Life
I have not seen a lot of crowd pleasers at the Virtual World Expo [ja] I attended last week but Second Coa’s booth was actually a heavily frequented one. The company did a great job in …
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Japanese TV star is the world's most popular blogger by Guinnes Records
Cyber Agent, free blogging service Ameba(Ameblo) provider, announced that their holding celebrity blogger Yusuke KAMIJI’s weblog is certified by Guinness World Records as the “MOST UNIQUE …
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iPhone sold from the 3rd player Softbank in Japan
Softbank announced that they agreed with Apple to sell the iPhone in Japan. SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone™ to Japan later this year. …
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Apply for Sun Microsystems / Recruit's Mash-up award in October
Since today Japan-based web companies are welcome to send in applications for the 4th Mash-up awards jointly organized by Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit. The first prize is 10 million Yen …
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YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 2
I’m impressed by a session called ‘memcached in mixi’ by Masahiro Nagano. He detailedly explained their effort to scale the Japan’s biggest SNS with memcached. They are using …
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Google copies icon from Japanese portal goo (maybe not)
You might notice that Google changed their favicon image which you see on your browser addressbar this week. Here is NTT Resonant’s portal site “goo"’s icon, goo is one of the …
