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Feeling stressed out? The Japanese media are often featuring stories focused on Japanese being full of stress, but what can you really do about it? Houses are thinly constructed and apartments have paper-thin walls, so having a good scream is out of the question. This is what brought places ...
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When NTT Docomo launched the “osaifu keitai” service in July of 2004, it revolutionized the way people thought about their mobile phones: using Sony’s contact-less FeliCa technology, these communication devices could now function like e-money cards and train passes. Five years later, exactly ...
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Sony
A new interactive website “Ayamari Bijin” (謝り美人) records and publishes video apologies by “bijin” (美人, lit. “beautiful girl”). The project is counting down until “Apology Day” (ごめんねの日) on December 10 when we all have to start saying sorry.
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Scott Murphy , the Chicago-born rock musician, has another album out. Did you notice? Well, this got us at Japan Trends thinking a bit about all those foreign “upstarts” invading the Japanese pop charts…
Okay, first we should define our categories very carefully. We are ...
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Sanyo recently announced a new line of batteries in their Eneloop series of rechargeable batteries called Eneloop Tones . Boasting eight new colors instead of the normal white batteries, the new cells look great in a drawer and on the store shelf, but are a bit harder to appreciate once ...
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Sanyo
Since UNIQLO may well be the most web-savvy retailer around (see UniQlock , Uniqlo Calendar and Uniqlo Tunes ), it might come as a surprise to some readers to hear that they JUST started Twitter and Mixi accounts for the first time on November 20.
Why so late to the grassroots level of ...
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SONY has launched a campaign to get us all singing in our cars.
“Singing in your car” takes an activity that we all do (often to the annoyance of fellow passengers) and turns it into an interactive TV and online contest. You can send in your auditions (posted to YouTube) and some ...
Hardware
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Japanese innovation in telephony is clearly ahead of the rest of the world, but did you know about the coming convergence between phones and silverware that was predicted years ago? Tsubame-Sanjo station in Niigata prefecture is home to an early prototype .
In case you can’t tell, ...
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If you’re anything like me, you just can’t get enough tokoroten . All summer, every day, I’m just fiending for the sweet, sweet product of sea algae. Luckily, Bandai Asovision is adding yet another item to it’s mugen (infinite) s eries of toys that started with the ...
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Without adding any kind of judgement for or against Obama ( this video says it all), his recent visit to Japan stirred up the silliest controversy ever. The other day the Drudge Report ran a headline showing the Leader of the Free World bowing to the Japanese emperor, who is clearly not bowing ...
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We’ve previously reported on this site about the official Rakuten Auction channel on NicoNico Douga . Now here’s another corporate-endorsed video, one that appears to smash, literally, out of the screen. Get in the driving seat for the Need For Speed: Shift video , a showcase for ...
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new. The PhoneBook is just that – a phone combined with a book. You take a specially produced picture book with a “playing window” in ...
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Christmas is just around the corner and we figured we’d introduce three new RC products for the boys.
A good start for any serious RC fan should be the G-Bound Super Car , with its gargantuan wheels and water-resistant shell. This baby is great to race through puddles and see the spray ...
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We just love interesting collaborations . “Adorable” character Hello Kitty and her owner Sanrio have teamed up with Swarovski to produce a mobile music player decorated with three hundred crystals.
In fact, this is not the first time that Hello Kitty has been decorated with ...
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Take an old brand and a banal product. Add some simplistic, funky packaging and an interesting theme and, hey presto, you might just have a hit.
That’s what health goods manufacturer Morishita Jintan is hoping will happen with their big new release — 116 Jintan . On sale from ...
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Just launched, the Deco-Monster is a collaboration between au KDDI and Casio to promote the latter’s Exilim mobile .
The campaign revolves around the “ dynamic photos ” that the Exilim phone offers, and allowing you to use these as deco mail on your phone. Deco mail ...
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Just launched, the Deco-Monster is a collaboration between au KDDI and Casio to promote the latter’s Exilim mobile .
The campaign revolves around the “ dynamic photos ” that the Exilim phone offers, and allowing you to use these as deco mail on your phone. Deco mail ...
