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		<title>Freeware has animators dancing to the Hatsune Miku beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you search for the acronym MMD on Niconico or YouTube — the two most popular video-sharing sites in Japan — the resulting list will have over 100,000 anime videos, most of which have 3-D anime-style girl characters singing and dancing to electronic J-pop music. What&#8217;s surprising is that these (usually short) videos are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CV frauds revealed by diligent online fact checks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, there have been several cases where Japanese media icons, especially those who shine across national and language borders, have been accused of falsifying their personal histories, and they have consequently lost whatever popularity they had gained through the mass media and/or books. The most public example of this recently was Hisashi Moriguchi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 has been a big year on the Japanese social-media scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter continues to ride high. Facebook has grown a lot, but newcomer Line seems set to overtake it. Social game companies Gree and Mobage have shifted their overseas expansion into high gear. And Mixi finally admits that it needs to try harder to understand what its members want. In this month&#8217;s column, we look back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merumaga: Paid e-mail newsletters make a come-back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that Japan has the world&#8217;s largest market for digital-manga, which are primarily read on cellphones, and that Amazon has recently brought out its Kindle platform in Japan &#8212; after a delay of 5 years &#8212; the e-book business here has yet to take off. As such, it&#8217;s probably no surprise that old-style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple should team up with local companies to solve Maps dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, a major update of Apple&#8217;s iOS software for iPhones and iPads (iOS6) replaced the devices&#8217; long-standing Google Maps application with Apple&#8217;s self-made Maps service. However, the new app soon caused outrage among iDevice users around the world due to the low quality of the maps. In Japan, where addresses are rather complicated, people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! Japan&#8217;s &#8216;explosive speed&#8217; changes Web biz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, Japanese Web titan Yahoo! Japan appointed a new CEO and new board members &#8212; the first big change to its board since the company was founded 16 years ago. The new executive quickly implemented changes that have led to faster decision-making and a more aggressive approach to business &#8212; things not seen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite flaws, Rakuten is 1-0 against Amazon in Japan&#8217;s e-book wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rakuten, Japan&#8217;s largest online shopping mall &#8212; and a head-to-head rival of Amazon Japan that also hopes to expand its business globally &#8212; launched its first e-book reader, the Rakuten Kobo Touch, on July 19, getting the jump on the long anticipated Japanese release of Amazon&#8217;s Kindle. On June 26 &#8212; the very same day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s LINE social network could challenge global competitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LINE is a cross-platform communication service and app, offered for free by Naver, from NHN Japan. The basic functionality allows users to send text messages and to make free calls with other users who have the app installed on their smartphones. The service launched just 13 months ago, on June 27, 2011, and its growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online crowdfunded tuition service entangled in controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowdfunding, a method that enables projects to raise money over the Internet, has become one of the hottest trends in the world of Web-startups. The most successful of these is Kickstarter.com, which has hosted more than 45,000 projects. Crowdfunding services host project details alongside the fundraising target and the deadline. Projects vary from site to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s social-gaming industry hindered by government&#8217;s anti-gambling move</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to mobile social-gaming, nowhere is it as popular or as profitable as it is in Japan. The nation&#8217;s two industry giants, Gree and its rival DeNA&#8217;s Mobage, have been increasing their sales every quarter for years. Gree&#8217;s TV-commercial campaigns are second only to cosmetics company Shiseido in the amount of money spent [...]]]></description>
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