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• Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese

  

  2009-10-05 · By Akky Akimoto culture friend Mixi social media social media design Social Network

  Mixi, Japan’s largest social network service, introduced a new feature around Mai-Miku(=My Mixi, my friends) management, called My List. Your new “My List” is completely private for …

• The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo/Google Do Not Offer

  

  2009-08-07 · By Akky Akimoto address Alpssha Annai culture English Google Increment P Japanese Kyoto Locasing map search Shobunsha Yahoo! Zenrin

  If you ever lived in Japan, you know that Japanese address system is uneasy for people who get used to the western system on which all streets have a name and name+number identify the single …

• Project CodeRepos - All Our Code Are Belong To Us

  

  2009-01-16 · By Akky Akimoto Community copyleft culture geek programmer public domain shared repository source code wiki

  CodeRepos is a software repository space where many top-level Japanese web programmers contribute and share their source code. Kazuhiro OOSAWA, aka Yappo, is known well by his privately running …

• Teenager Prefer Cellphone Keypad to PC Keyboard

  

  2008-12-28 · By Akky Akimoto Cell Phone culture keyboard

  For many Japanese adolescents, cellphone is inseparable partner of their lives, you might have heard. Different from PC, kids can have their own (not-shared with your family/siblings, not filtered by …

• Gal-Moji: leetspeak for Japanese highschool girls

  

  2008-06-01 · By Akky Akimoto culture Emoji Japan leet letter schoolgirl

  If l33t is an English phenomenon mainly among Geeks, “Gal-Moji” (“Moji” = letters) is the counterpart for Japanese cellphone users, especially teenaged girls. As with …