Google Japan’s office in Skyscraper had a Small Fire
NHK reported [J] that the 30th office in Roppongi Hills’s Mori Tower had a minor fire burnt some carpet and card board boxes before 9 a.m. today November 27th. Floors between 26th and 30th are used by...
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Yahoo! Japan and Family-mart Gives 50K Free Coffee For Search
Japan’s Web Behemoth Yahoo! Japan and one of three major convenience chain-store Family Mart jointly starts free coffee campaign [J] today. Anyone searching “Famima Coffee” (Famima is an official...
View ArticleYahoo! Japan to Open Silicon Valley Branch
The Jpaan’s largest web company Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that it is to have a new oversea branch in Silicon Valley “to research the cutting edge technologies”. The release does not tell much details,...
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Japanese Web: Find Hilary Clinton’s Photo Similar To Social Game Idols
Playing on the tag challenge is one of the Japanese Twitter users’ favorites, besides super simultaneous tweets by TV watchers. There is a series of challenges that #”Send A picture, and B will be...
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Smartphone Fasting Camp to be Held This Summer in Japan
Mainichi reports that Hyogo prefecture is to run a 5 days boot camp for smartphone addicted children in August. Kids are still allowed to bring their smartphone, but they are kept in one place, and...
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i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year
NTT Docomo announced today November 2, 2016 that they will end the sales of i-mode cellphones between this month November and December. No new i-mode supported featurephone is announced so that P-01H,...
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NEC Releases AI Chooses The Best Taste of 2-channelers Soul Snack Umaibou
Umaibou is a Japanese snack which is now widely known as a symbolic favourite snack of the Japan’s largest anonymous bulletin boards 2-channel. The service which NEC launched to boast its AI technology...
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A wake-up service charges you when you fail to leave your home by time
A new smartphone wake-up assistance service Mezamee charges fee every morning ONLY WHEN you failed to wake up. The application is “totally free” as far as you wake up and leave your home over 100...
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Tokyo Olympic Committee is Hiring New Engineers for A New COVID-19 Service
twitter user @mahoco found an interesting job listing by Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee. The post valid from April 18th tells that Tokyo Olympic is seeking engineers who are in charge of planning,...
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TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives
Boundless, a Japanese arm of Apollo/Yahoo US, announced today that they would shut down two American-originated tech blogs’ Japanese version, TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japanese version on May 1,...
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