V'fone Expands Japanese 3G

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V'fone K.K. Expands 3G

V'fone K.K. Expands 3G 08/06/2004 02:47 PM
Unstrung.com Aug 6 2004 6:11PM GMT

GameBrink.com Expands U.S. Market for
Import Japanese Video Games

GameBrink.com Expands U.S. Market for
Import Japanese Video Games 06/17/2005 03:44 PM
For various reasons, many video games are never sold outside of Japan. But that isn't stopping U.S. gamers from playing them, thanks to GameBrink.com (http://www.gamebrink.com). The site, which officially launched this week, retails import Japanese video games for PSP(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), GameCube(TM), Game Boy(R) and PlayStation 2(TM) systems from within the U.S. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2005]

V'fone Launches 3G Service

V'fone Launches 3G Service 02/12/2004 10:09 AM
Unstrung.com Feb 12 2004 1:16PM GMT

V'fone Takes 3G Underground

V'fone Takes 3G Underground 06/10/2004 04:00 PM
Unstrung.com Jun 10 2004 7:47PM GMT

V'fone Unveils UMTS Tariffs

V'fone Unveils UMTS Tariffs 02/13/2004 01:19 PM
Unstrung.com Feb 13 2004 4:15PM GMT

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

Wizzard Expands Target Market With
WizzScribe Server-Based Speech
Recognition; Company Expands Portfolio
Of Offerings To Corporate Users With IBM
Speech Technology

Wizzard Expands Target Market With
WizzScribe Server-Based Speech
Recognition; Company Expands Portfolio
Of Offerings To Corporate Users With IBM
Speech Technology 09/03/2004 03:00 AM
Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD) announced today they have expanded their portfolio of offerings powered by IBM WebSphere Voice Application Access 5.0. The WizzScribe Software Developers Kit (SDK) and server-based runtimes support the offline conversion of voice audio into text, bringing large vocabulary voice recognition technology to a new generation of business applications. Wizzard chose IBM's WVAA 5.0 solution because of its rapid application environment and built in authentication technologies - freeing the developer to focus on core business application logic. It is IBM's premiere solution for the delivery of voice portals and managed voice applications. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]

No sex please -- we're Japanese

No sex please -- we're Japanese 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
USA Today story on statistics published in a popular Japanese news magazine that point to an acute shagging deficiency throughout the country.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."

More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. "They don't want a complicated life," says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.(...)

AERA reports that condom shipments are down 40% since 1993 (probably in part because Japan finally legalized birth-control pills in 1999) and love-hotel check-ins are off at least 20% over the past five years. What's more, an increasing number of those visiting love hotels aren't there for romance, AERA says; they've found that love hotels offer the cheapest access to karaoke machines and video games.

Link. Hope this has nothing to do with the butter dog trend recently reported by Fleshbot. Or, god forbid, her .(Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl).

Japanese Ice Cream

Japanese Ice Cream 07/07/2004 05:48 PM
OK, here's one of the reasons I love Japan: The way they have no inhibitions about what might go together with something else. How about Spinach Ice Cream? Or Seaweed Ice Cream? Or how about the Raw Horse Meat Ice Cream ("with chunks!")?

The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream

(Via Boing Boing. Of course, it's incredibly lame to refer to Boing Boing, because everybody reads it already, but... well. I just find this one interesting. :-)

Unicode-Japanese-0.21

Unicode-Japanese-0.21 05/26/2004 05:48 AM

Peculiar Japanese

Peculiar Japanese 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I just got back to Japan after a few weeks abroad. It's the longest trip away from Japan that I've taken in awhile. When I was in the waiting area before boarding the plane, which was mostly Japanese, I noticed that the Japanese people seemed peculiar. I remember feeling this in the past after long trips. It's like suddenly I'm aware of weird Japanese body language, fashion, behaviors and facial expressions. It made me self-conscious too. I'm sure this is a pretty common phenomenon, but it was odd because it was disproportionately stronger compared to a one week trip away. Maybe it's because I was in Paris, South Africa, San Francisco and Boston before returning and the variety of cultures scrambled my cultural blinders. It was also strange reading the International Herald Tribune on China's anger over recent statements by Japanese about ramping up their military while watching the Japanese news in the plane talk about the same thing from their perspective. It was like having two cultural identities coexisting in my head. Somewhere over the arctic, both cultures seemed mighty peculiar.

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What is Technorati (in Japanese)

What is Technorati (in Japanese) 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Masahiko Satoh posts an extensive explanation of Technorati in Japanese for folks in Japan trying to understand better what the service does, and how it works. Thanks Masahiko!...

Those Crazy Japanese...

Those Crazy Japanese... 01/06/2005 10:19 PM

You want some iMac fingernails?

Japanese popstar van-art

Japanese popstar van-art 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
This is a stunning gallery of fan-car art inspired by Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki. Link, Link to lots more Ayumi fan art (via MeFi)

Folksonomies in Japanese

Folksonomies in Japanese 02/01/2005 08:41 PM
OK, I need some help from people who speak Japanese. This post is about folksonomies (tagging), and how it might be really hard in Japanese. This is mostly speculation at this point, please comment or email me if you speak Japanese. On the Sigia-L list, Fiona Bradley writes: "I don't know Cantonese, ...

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
A rocket carrying two spy satellites meant to keep an eye on North Korea malfunctions following liftoff, failing to gain sufficient height and speed to reach orbit. Japan's space agency, JAXA, destroys the rocket.

Japanese Engrish

Japanese Engrish 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Japenese products with hilarious Engrish names .. .. This Engrish site takes the cake! .. rather amusingtranslations .. Japanese-english .. Engrish dot com .. *focroflmao* .. Engrish! .. C

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Japanese to tag schoolkids

Japanese to tag schoolkids 07/09/2004 11:39 AM
My first RFID

Japanese fashion

Japanese fashion 08/18/2004 06:16 PM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

What are the cool kids in Harajuku wearing?

Glad you asked. Link to an online photo gallery with street snapshots from Harajuku station in Tokyo. (Thanks, Todd!)

Pete sent me this picture. Marc, were you in Harajuku recently?

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Japanese for Nerds (I)

Japanese for Nerds (I) 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Japanese is the perfect language for nerds. There are just a bunch of standard interfaces to learn, which you string together like so many nested functor objects and voilà: fully-formed correct Japanese sentences!

Japanese numbers

Japanese numbers 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
Joi runs the startling results of a survey of Japanese Internet usage. Some highlights: 36.2% of homes have broadband. 72.5% have heard of blogs, about double last year., 25% of women in their teens and 20's have blogs. (!) Wow....

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I know what I am buying as soon as I am back in Japan. e-Navi is a new PDA that...

Japanese videophone

Japanese videophone 03/13/2003 12:53 PM

Amazing footage over at TokyoDV of the unreleased FOMA P2102V video cellphone. With the screen folded sideways it looks almost like a very small MiniDV camcorder.
Watch

Unicode-Japanese-0.22

Unicode-Japanese-0.22 05/31/2004 05:39 AM

those crazy japanese

those crazy japanese 09/13/2004 05:01 AM
The OS Girls.

Unicode-Japanese-0.19

Unicode-Japanese-0.19 01/19/2004 05:05 AM

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy 06/10/2004 04:57 AM

Read Les Earnest's hillarious story about how his secret decoder ring got FBI on his tail when he was 12 years old.  That was in 1943 but it shows what can happen when paranoia grips a nation.  It could be now if you are related in anyway to the Middle East. [via Gaget opia via Espen Adersen].

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Shibori< /a> is an amazing Japanese textile dying technique--a very sophisticated form of tie-dye, where nubby, lumpy, bizarre things like this are transformed after dying into this fish or these flo wers (scroll for detail) or these starbursts. Specifically this odd thing became this (detail). You can find excellent photos and descriptions of the process here, here(scroll down and hold mouse over photo), and here. There is also information at the World Shibori Network . This photo shows partially dyed fabric and here is a video of the preparation for dying. Shibori is very labor intensive (carpal tunnel syndrome-city) and was a one time subject to a sumptuary tax and one form was outlawed by an emperor for being too extravagant. There are many different knots and ties for different patterns--browse here, here(gallery1-7), and here. Shibori can be used to make some striking and detailed images. Diverse examples of shibori --iris, layer ed squares, waves, kimonos, large bridge banner, subtle black and white winter scene, , a nifty “aerial view� of earth as a tidal pool with hot air balloons (detail of anemones). Don't miss the stunning work of Hiroko Harada (English/Japanese) . I especially like Rain In the Forest, There Are Ripples On the Cloth, Seasonal Changes, and this large installation. You can browse more here, but the Japanese page has more.

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.03

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.03 07/31/2004 07:06 AM

You don't have to be Japanese to enjoy
this... you have to be high

You don't have to be Japanese to enjoy
this... you have to be high 02/12/2004 08:45 AM
animation .. Japanese .. 2chdaiou .. J-flash

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Dell is learning Japanese

Dell is learning Japanese 07/27/2004 11:25 AM
ZDNet Jul 27 2004 3:38PM GMT

Japanese baseball on first strike

Japanese baseball on first strike 09/19/2004 02:01 AM
Japan's professional baseball players go on strike for the first time since the game was introduced 70 years ago.

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.01

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.01 07/24/2004 06:13 PM

DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-Era-0.03

DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-Era-0.03 01/23/2004 05:26 PM

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.02

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.02 07/26/2004 05:35 AM

DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.02

DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.02 01/24/2004 06:11 PM

On the Japanese 'anon' P2P bust

On the Japanese 'anon' P2P bust 12/05/2003 09:07 AM
Letter Japan, a polite police state.

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.04

MIME-Lite-TT-Japanese-0.04 09/08/2004 07:12 AM

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