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Roppongi Hills To Offer In-House Generating Electricity To Suffering Tokyo
Mori Buildings announced [J] that Roppongi Hills, office/shopping-mall/residents complex, one of the center of Tokyo and Japan’s web industry, where currently Google Japan and Gree reside, once …
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Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) Starts Twitter To Provide Updates
Another new Twitter account follows to the Prime Minister’s Office’s English version Twitter comes tonight around 9 p.m. by Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO), who has been tackling two …
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Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan
Japanese Location based service Coropura(Colopl.jp) makes a map of east Japan to show where its users checked in the day before [J]. The hex displayed on the map means there were at least one check …
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Google Opens Evacuation Info Portal For Japanese Cellphone
Google built a dedicated page which is tailored for Japanese cellphone web browsers (i.e. i-mode and others) to help people suffering Tohoku earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis [J]. Compact web page for …
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Japan Ministry of Education Now Reports Radiation Level Across Japan
[Update] Volunteer-made chart [J] comes based on the MEXT data. (Fukushima line is not drawn. see below for why) So far, some prefecture around the Fukushima plants show a bit higher numbers, but …
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Japan Prime Minister's Office Begins English Twitter, To Inform Disaster Information
Prime Minister’s Office of Japan has just annouced that they opened an official Twitter account @JPN_PMO in English. This is the official English twitter account of Prime Minister’s Office of …
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Japanese Artists Draw Catfish To Encourage The Earthquake Sufferers
Drawn by shigeokahide. Many Japanese artists drew Namazu-e(鯰絵) to encourage earthquake sufferers on Twitter. What is Namazu-e? Namazu-e is a motif drawn in ukiyoe (Wikipedia) during Edo period …
