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Twitter Shogi - Japanese Chess Over Tweets
Twitter Shogi(= Japanese Chess) by Kayac is a new web service for good-old correspondence (Japanese) chess between two Twitter users. You can simply start a new game with @your_opponent by tweeting …
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Kanazawa Mayor Candidate Challenges Twitter-Banning Japan's Election System
On November 28th at Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan there was a mayor election. The two leading candidates, incumbent Tamotsu Yamade [J], 79, and Yukiyoshi Yamano [J], 48, competed closely, …
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Family Mart Debuts New Rice Balls Suggested By Twitter Users
Following the cooperation between soft drink company Calpis and noodle maker Acecook with Mixi in 2008, we have yet another case of social media integration into product development in Japan. Major …
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Tweeted Wishes Are Projected On Public Bath Chimney And Deliver Hopes
Sony has been running an ad campaign to promote their computer product brand Vaio since the beginning of this month, which is titled Vaio Assist Torch Project[J]. In the campaign, the company started …
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Hit List: Japan's Top 20 Products In 2010 (And 2011)
What are Japan’s top products in 2010? That’s a question Japan’s (and one of the world’s) biggest advertising agency Dentsu recently asked in a survey [PDF] it has been …
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Japan's Top Search Keywords in 2010 By Yahoo! Japan
It is a year-end buzzword ranking season. Yahoo! Japan, Japan’s most popular search portal, though the backend search engine has been gradually switching to Google’s one (everyday more …
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Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications
On October 27th, NTT Communications announced [J] that they would cooperate with Indiana-based ExactTarget to promote their enterprise Twitter client for customer service CoTweet for Japan. They …
