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Mixi To Replace CEO President After One Year
Today Mixi announced [J] that Yusuke Asakura, who took the lead at long-struggling Japanese Facebook rival since last June, will be replaced with Hiroki Morita, an executive officer managing the …
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Japan Likely To Have The First Chromebook Acer C720
Impress PC Watch reported [J] that Japanese Google Play Store has an Acer C720 Chromebook page with “近日発売”(Coming Soon) No Chromebook, or PC with Chrome OS pre-installed, has been sold in Japanese …
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Un-breakout – Burokku-Kuzushi Game Reversed
Burokku Kuzusasnu (not destructing blocks) is a new browser game released by @utyo on January 19, and quickly buzzed in Japan. The game is based on Brokku Kuzushi (block destruciton), a category …
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Yahoo! Messenger [J] To Shut Down
Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that it would terminate its messenger service “Yahoo! Messenger” at 3 p.m. on March 26, 2014. Yahoo! Messenger was one of the most popular messenger services for Japanese …
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Rakuten Purchases The Name Of Miyagi Baseball Stadium For Kobo
NHK reported that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, who owns a professional baseball team Tohoku Rakuten Goleden Eagles in the top leagues, purchased the naming right of the home stadium in Sendai, …
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Japan's 4th Largest Convenience Chain-store To Use Rakuten Super Points
According to Sankei reported [J], Circle-K-Sunkus, the 4th largest convenience chain-store, announced on November 17th that it would replace its own reward points system with e-commerce giant …
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Twitter Virus "Plays Now" Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In
Japanese Twittersphere, one of the most active languages on Twitter, was confused by a simple but very effective viral trick since last week. Since October 15, tweets with sensational titles of videos …