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Placeholder Public Service Commercial Buzzed Crazy In Japan
Advertising Council Japan (AC Japan) has been mostly a sole commercial providers on Japanese commercial TV stations for a week since the East Japan Earthquake occured. As most regular companies did …
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Becomes Fan-made Anime
Yukio Edano (Wikipedia), Japanese cabinet’s chief secretary in Kan government, who has been a spokesperson on the East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Crisis, got himself a name from Japanese, …
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After The Quake: Social Apps And Web Trends To Help Disaster Relief Efforts
Here’s a follow-up to my previous posts covering the grassroots movements to relieve the devastated areas. GPS-Enabled Map of Scheduled Blackouts: A team of web app developers Boss Yooann, …
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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Starts Twitter
Following to the Prime Minister Office’s English account on 16th and Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) on 17th, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force(JGSDF) begins to tweet on @JGSDF_pr. The first 4 …
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All Star Developers Running Hackathon To Build Disaster Info Services
Many web companies and individuals are now running a nation-wide, virtual and real (Kyoto, Okayama and Fukuoka in West Japan) hackathon (collaborative programming marathon, see Wikipedia) named …
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Earthquake Relief - Feeding Info On Maps And Twitter
For the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, there have been many food and water distribution supplied in all prefectures in Tohoku and Ibaraki pref. To make suffered people know the info, …
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Acima Provides Hotline Over IM For Non-Japanese Disaster Victims
Japan based international-business consulting company Acima is offering emergency hotline over Skype and MSN Messenger for 24 hours in 15 languages, by using its own resource and forming volunteers …
