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Japan: Debating the fate of Shimokitazawa

Tokyo has no lack of small, winding streets. Shibuya has its maze of criss-crossing shōtengai, Roppongi its club-lined back alleyways, Ueno its open-air street markets. But no neighborhood in Tokyo packs more complexity per square foot than ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Honda

Japan: On Twitter, nobody knows you're a bot

This week though saw a whole new take on the familiar “nobody knows you're a dog” adage. Blogger coconutsfine [ja], in a post entitled “The people I've been friends with for ages on Twitter were bots” (twitterでずっと仲良くしていた人がbotだった), described his ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  12 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Japan: To you who will graduate this year

With these circumstances as backdrop, a blog post by Japanese blogger and university professor id:next49, addressed (anonymously) to a student, struck a chord with many readers and drew a huge reaction in the local blogosphere last month. Posted on ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  3 Mar 2009

Japan: Why do Japanese work so hard?

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From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  28 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Danny Boyle

Japan: Bloggers on the Nakagawa affair

Given that there are thousands of blog posts on the Nakagawa affair in the Japanese blogosphere, the best I'll be able to do here is to feature one small sample. One interesting view was expressed by blogger Naoto Yamamoto (山本直人), who sees Nakagawa's ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  27 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Shoichi Nakagawa,  Barack Obama

Japan: Municipal opposition to Street View

A friend of mine, someone who I am close to but have never invited to my home, one day sent me an email in which they were suddenly able to correctly guess my address. [Before guessing my address], this friend of mine already knew my local train ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  13 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Japan: Google Japan and PayPerPost

Motohiko Tokuriki at Tokuriki.com posts a long discussion [ja] of the recent PayPerPost incident at Google Japan. Tokuriki writes that while he does not agree with the PayPerPost approach, there is nonetheless a distinction to be made between the ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  13 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Japan: Message translation service brings heartbreak

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From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  11 Feb 2009

Japan: Bloggers respond to new filtering measures

Sites targeted by the new filtering policy include adult and dating (deaikei) sites, as well as so-called “communication sites”, which include bulletin boards and blog services. Some of the affected blog services have already posted explanations about ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  4 Feb 2009

Japan: Looking back on 2008

The Alpha Blogger Awards (formerly: Search for Alpha Bloggers) has been held continuously every year since 2004, but this year we are putting our efforts into changing the idea [of the awards], and so this year we will award prizes for blog entries — ...

From CHRIS SALZBERG, Global Voices Online,  25 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Toshiba,  Sony

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