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Cheating With Japanese Yahoo! Answers Happens At Kyoto Univ Entrance Exam
Today, 26th February in afternoon, one question around Japanese translation to English on Yahoo! Chiebukuro [J], one of Japan’s most popular Q and A service run by Yahoo! Japan, was mentioned on …
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Uncer: Japan Now Has Kind Of A Quora Clone
One of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, Q&A site Quora (of which I am a big fan), now has a Japanese clone of sorts. Dubbed Uncer (short for “uncertain”), the site is probably …
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Galaxy Tab Tissue On Tokyo Street
Giving away free tissue (so-called pocket tissue) is a promotion method widely run in Japan, and is not so common in other countries. Shibuya’s local Docomo reseller advertised Samsung’s …
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Japanese Virtual Diva Hatsune Miku Themed Tram Appears In Sapporo
Sapporo City Tram in Hokkaido introduced trains with full of Hatsune Miku, a popular virtual singing instrument application Vocaloid’s character. The train body is painted with Hatsune Miku, Ads …
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Mezamashi Kanojo - iPhone/Android Morning Alarm Motivates You By Girls Photo
Mezamashi Kanojo [J] (Morning Alarm Clock Girlfriend) by Biglobe is a smartphone(iPhone/iPad/Android) alarm clock application featuring Japanese girls. The app has a simple alarm clock functionality. …
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Rakuten Goes To UK And/Or Germany By The End Of This Year, CEO Said
According to Mainichi [J], Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani reportedly told that they will open their e-mall business either or both of UK and Germany this year. Rakuten is planning to move into 4 new …
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Follow Up: myGengo Announces First Round of API Lab Winners
Following up our previous coverage of human translation company myGengo’s API Lab, the company has announced its first round of winners for plug-ins created using the myGengo API. So far 6 …
