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Cookpad Switches To Ruby Version 2.0
Cookpad Engineers’ Blog announced [J] today that their web-service has migrated to Ruby 2.0.0-p0, the latest version of Ruby. That Japan’s (and probably the world’s) largest recipe …
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Nisshin Cup Noodle's New TVCM Cynical About (Presumably) Rakuten
Rakuten’s Englishnization has been causing wide repercussions among Japanese business people. Nisshin’s new commercial film “Survive! Globalization” depicts a Japanese company …
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LINE Stamp Characters Appear In New Animated TV Series
NHN Japan, Inc. [J] has announced the broadcast of the animated TV series “LINE TOWN,” featuring popular characters from their free smartphone calling and mail application “LINE,” on Tokyo TV Channel …
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Japanese Restaurant Review Service Tabelog Opens English/New York Version
Popular restaurant review site Tabelog by Kakaku.com launched English site for New York City on March 28. US version tabelog has en accent mark on ’e’, under .us domain. Its design is …
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Mixi Adds Facebook-like Poke With Comic Fonts Messages
Mixi added a new feature “Mixi Hello!” on March 25. With it, users can send pre-set messages in comic style to your friends, by 1-click without writing any letter. The pre-set messages …
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Takafumi Horie, ex-Livedoor CEO Released On Parole
Horie himself announced on his Twitter account on 10:08 a.m. today March 27 (Japan Standard Time). https://twitter.com/takapon_jp/status/316718221917028354 According to the tweet, he was release …
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Tokyo Met Government Releases Puzzle Game To Enlighten Consumer Intelligece For iOS And Android
Tokyo Metropolitan Government bureau of citizens and cultural affairs released an iOS/Android app “Mamore! Shuuma & Elme”(mamore = protect), which is the first ever game app to pass on …
