Google Japan has entered another unexpected market with the release of a free Japanese input software. Reviews on the net hail it as a very natural and easy to use system posing a huge threat to the standard issue ATOK, Anthy, WinAnthy, and other input systems. Google’s Japanese input can be used with Windows XP […]
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When I wrote my open letter to Amazon Japan about the Kindle in Japan , we didn’t have a lot of options in Japan. If you live in Japan for any significant amount of time, you may end up accumulating books. Books are heavy and it means either abandoning them upon your return, or paying
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I’m not going to explain the obvious ones like and but I’ll go down a little list of some that I think people might find interesting or useful… refers to the Japanese version of the expression “see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil” good for “sorry” or “pretty please” (although it looks like
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As the iPhone went to Softbank (owned by Yahoo Japan), I was wondering if the Google Android phone would ever come to Japan. Well, the Google Android Phone Japan Version is here, and it went to Docomo. Other Docomo phones have gradually been increasing its compatibility with Google products such as YouTube and Google Maps
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I love reading the little hints that float around that show the small but effective revolution Google is pulling off in Japan. If you follow the news, you know why Yahoo is bigger than Google in Japan, but I’ve also been writing about how Google has been gaining ground by approaching the Japanese market through
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This according to an article in CNET Japan. There are three major mobile phone providers in Japan. AU KDDI, Docomo, and Softbank. Softbank is owned by Yahoo Japan. There were tons of rumors that the iPhone would come to Japan with Docomo. Softbank Mobile today announced that it would be releasing the iPhone within the
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In the U.S., Google’s doing a lot of things geared toward the iPhone… in Japan Google seems to have a connection with KDDI AU for cell phones. AU uses Google Search, and its auone.jp email services (which I suspect uses imap) is powered by gmail. That’s why in a previous post (“The iPhone in Japan?“)
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