Japan
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TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives
Boundless, a Japanese arm of Apollo/Yahoo US, announced today that they would shut down two American-originated tech blogs’ Japanese version, TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japanese version on …
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Tokyo Olympic Committee is Hiring New Engineers for A New COVID-19 Service
twitter user @mahoco found an interesting job listing by Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee. The post valid from April 18th tells that Tokyo Olympic is seeking engineers who are in charge of planning, …
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Smartphone Fasting Camp to be Held This Summer in Japan
Mainichi reports that Hyogo prefecture is to run a 5 days boot camp for smartphone addicted children in August. Kids are still allowed to bring their smartphone, but they are kept in one place, and …
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AllAbout Launches Non-Japanese AllAbout Japan for Foreign Visitors
AllAbout Inc., AllAbout Inc., a Japanese company which originally started as a joint-venture between Recruit and US About.com, running All About in Japanese, announced today [J] September 29th that …
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Twitter Japan Begins Adboard in Central Tokyo
Twitter Japan(@TwitterJP) announced that it started signboard ads for passengers using Shimbashi station for one months. 新橋駅をご利用の皆さん。今朝から1ヶ月、（Twitter初の）駅広告が始まります。通勤、通学の機会に、ぜひご覧ください。いくつかの路線でも車内広告を行っていま …
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Vending Machine Talks to Employees in President’s Voice
Japanese beverage distributor Dydo Drinco (TSE: 2590) jointly invented president-message speaking vending machine with Kyoto-based Taxi company MK Co.. translation by Asiajin The release shows some …
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All Japanese Stocks Jump Up 10000% on Google Search
[Update] It seems fixed now (21:40 31th) Google’s instant stock search feature, one of the quick search results shown at the top of search results page, has been showing ten-thousandfold high price …
