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Today’s commentary is inspired by an article about use of Nintendo DS in eSchool News. The article talks about a Nintendo DS tie in to a textbook being used at Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen (sic). Here is the story as presented by Reuters.

Tokyo Joshi Gakuen should be commended for trying some new things, but the part [...]

Just today I’ve seen a commercial for “Google ‘ippatsu kensaku’” on Fujitsu cell phones about three times. Basically it’s the kind of search that automatically takes users to the top rated result for whatever they searched. The latest phone (the F906i) also features Google x Yoko-motion. Here’s a picture.

Currently, most people in Japan have some [...]