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Rakuten's Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon
There have been consumers complaining that their Rakuten Super Point, virtual currency circulated in Japan’s largest online shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba and its affiliated services, had been …
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10 Year Lasting LED Bulb Commercial
Toshiba’s new TV ad for its LED bulb depicts a life of Japanese 10 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaVsA-tr7g thanks @tmiz
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Anti-Sleep Driver's Sheet "Sleep Buster" Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep
Tokyo-based Juki Corporation is going to sell an anti-sleep system “Sleep Buster” for driver in 157,500 yen (US$2,000) in February 2012. The product keeps collecting a biological signals …
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Ameba Gets Security Attack - 50,000 Users Unregistered From The Service
Cyber Agent’s Ameba, one of Japan’s largest blogging service with thousands of celebrity blogs and virtual community around Ameba Pigg, announced on its staff blog [J] that Ameba services …
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Japan's Web News Week 50
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Japanese Facebook Users By Prefectures via …
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Follow-up Of The Social Networking Column On The Japan Times
This morning column 2011: The year when Japan went global over social networking on The Japan Times, both on paper and online, Japanese English-language newspaper is a monthly tech column brought by …
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Taito Releases Smartphone Social Spy Game Onto Chinese Market
Taito [J] has released the Android social game “特工大戦” (SPY WARS), for the smartphone “Tencent Wireless Open Platform for Community” through business partnership with GREE [J] and the Chinese internet …
