A poll done by Nepro Japan, a huge mobile products company, shows that 88% of people in Japan use their cell phones while in transit. Here is a link to the Japanese description of the poll (pdf). The sample of 4,614 people consisted of 41% male and 59% female respondents. 42% of the total were […]
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Slashdot.jp reports that during its first ten days of availability, Firefox 3 has been downloaded over one million times in Japan. I downloaded it four times myself thank you very much. This is big news because for all the technology that actually is accessible here, and the very technological image Japan has, you’d be surprised
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It goes without saying that if you don’t have a mobile presence in Japan, you don’t have a presence! Right now that’s step one for the folks at FB… Step two? I think the key is… in a word… Applications!!! Tons of applications… Easy to use, easy to apply facebook applications, localized and Japanified. As
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If you watch the video, you’ll here some wacky stuff. Now maybe I don’t go to enough “hi tech” buildings to have used the “smart toilet” but this is the kind of over-generalized news about Japan that drives me crazy. Here’s the video about the crazy robo-toilets that are “commonplace” in Japan these days. If
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Three students at Kyoto Sangyo University have also been given warnings after more Japanese graffiti was discovered at Florence Cathedral. One of the students gave excuses saying that he was so excited to be at a place he so respected, and since there was other graffiti there as well, he just went ahead and wrote.
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I’m staying up late tonight to blog about yet another cnn article that shows a complete lack of knowledge about anything Japanese… that’s fine however if these writer’s would do even the slightest bit of research. The assured way they write about Japan, while being completely wrong will never fail to amaze me. “American TV
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Six Japanese junior college students during a trip to Italy wrote graffiti and their names on the wall of the Florence Cathedral (the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore). It says February 18, 2008 with their names: Mana, Chii, Yui, Ayana, Rika, and Miki, then they even wrote the name of their school! Gifu City
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Briefly put, Hiroshi Nozaki recently arrested for killing a young Filipina woman has informed police of the whereabouts of the body of a 27 year old woman he killed in 1999. He had been arrested and served time in jail for the 1999 case, however since there was no body, he was put away for
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With text at 25% larger and easier to use menus for such things as “use the internet”, “email”, and “create a postcard”, Fujitsu is trying to tap into an estimated million person market for computers that would be easy for senior citizens to use. They plan to first put out about 2000 computers to test
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In the Kansai region where I live it seems like there’s a new AEON mall or Max Valu supermarket going up everywhere. They advertise their store brand (Top Valu) and seem to be doing well in the wake of the Daiei money troubles a few years back. If you live in Japan and you’ve been
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People on some of the social sites in Japan have been claiming they’ve seen the Google Streetview car in Kyoto and Tokyo! Anybody else see this! They’ll definitely have to blur faces because it’s illegal to take someone’s picture in Japan without permission.
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Hiroshi Nozaki got away with murder 9 years ago. He killed a Filipina woman, denied having killed her, and in the end was only sentenced to serve 3 and a half years for mutilation and disposal of a corpse. Because very little of the body was found, Saitama Prefecture police decided not to try the
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