Culture
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Nicofarre - Nico Nico Douga To Reincarnate Legendary Roppongi Disco
Nico Nico Douga, Japanese online movie sharing service which differentiates itself against YouTube with comments overlay-display, announced some news [J] at its first user conference in oversea, …
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Moedroid - Android Apps Review Site Only For "Moe" Apps
Moedroid [J] is a Japanese Android review site which introduces “moe” applications only. “Moe” is a Japanese slang which means “little, adorable and cute” mostly …
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Copyright Mark May Mean "Miss" For Japanese Teens
You know what copyright mark © means, don’t you? It should be common for all cultures that young generation try to differentiate themselves by changing their languages from adult. In this case …
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Google Japanese Input Drops Beta Tag, Does Even Fortune-Telling
If your language has much more letters, say 3,000 characters, than multiple times (shift/crtl/alt) of number of keys on keyboard, you need an input method environment(IME) to tell computers what …
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ex-Yahoo! Japan Employee Blogs About Irrational Cost Saving And Micro Management
An Engineer, who recently resigned Yahoo! Japan, the country’s most successful web company, wrote his experiences in his 4 years - as a foreigner in English. From the article by Jon Keating …
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Fake Toilet Flushing Sound Keychain Meets Characters
Japanese women are known to feel ashamed even by their sound of peeing listened by other buddies. Portable noise maker Eco Hime (= ecological princess), which saves you when you are in the public …
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Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing …
