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Japanese Social Marketplace Flutterscape Gets $300,000 Seed Money
A Japanese Internet startup that not only has international ambitions but that’s also able to receive a substantial amount of seed money is a very, very rare beast. But today, we can report …
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7 Out Of Top 10 Mobile Sites Used For Child Prostitution Ensured By The Self-Regulating Organization EMA
A police leak about child prostitution over non-dating websites includes statistics that implies self-regulation of big mobile web companies are not working as expected, Mainichi reported [J]. In …
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Hyper Gadgets Loaded Taxi In Kyoto
A guy from a game/smartphone shop Vis-a-Vis [J] posted an interesting photo when he took a taxi in Kyoto. Makaizou(evil tuned, often used to praise something so maniac) Taxi. It has 20 inch display, …
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August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
(From Part 1) Second of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Continued to Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Retired Lawmaker, Popular Twitter …
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You Can Participate In Fishery Auctions At Tsukiji From Home
DoHouse[J], a Tokyo-based marketing research company devoted to monitor surveys by housewives, launched on their food-oriented e-commerce site a program[J] that allows consumers to bid for fish with …
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Kyoto Prefecture Office Introduces 5 Customer Dummies To Foster "A Tense Feeling"
A new lifehack appeared from Japan’s old capital city Kyoto, NHK reported . Kyoto prefecture office PR section set 5 upper-body mannequins on their desk to face to staff last month. The idea of …
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Twitter Following List PuyoPuyo Animation
Recently Mashable reported that a twitter user @guygo’s bird on his following list. That one is a static picture, but there was an animation one by a Japanese user @tkpuyop in this March. …
