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Google Streetview Japan Photographs Comedian Takehiro Kimoto from TKO

Fans of Japanese comedy know TKO well. The manzai pair can often be seen on TV. The members of TKO are Takayuki Kinoshita and Takehiro Kimoto, both also have popular blogs on Ameblo where Kimoto has confirmed that it is indeed him that was captured by the Google Streetview car camera in Setagaya Ward and…

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Japanese to English Translation of Justin Bieber in Google Translate is…

So I had some time on my hands and I was playing around with Google Translate, which I think shows a lot of promise, but still has some weaknesses as well. The main weakness is that it’s well a machine. I don’t know what possessed me to do this but in the Japanese to English…

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Smart Phones Start Hitting the Japanese Mobile Phone Market

As smart phones are finally starting to catch on in Japan, mobile phone powerhouse Au is introducing a smartphone running Google’s Android OS. Although the term smart phone is almost silly when considering that the majority of even Japan’s simpler phones have had cameras, music playing capabilities, texting, and applications or “apuri” for years. Videos…

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Yahoo Japan President Calls Google “Nothing Special”

In an interview with Nikkei Business Online, Yahoo President Masahiro Inoue said that Google is not so great, and implied that Yahoo Japan has done great things while staying in the law. This comment may be a reference to Streetview which is one of Google’s most popular products in Japan, and for which Yahoo Japan…