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- Japanese game market hit hard
- April 21st, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment, Work Tips
- With the official endorsement for public restraint now being removed, markets are starting to fire back into action and Tokyo consumers are once again being welcomed with open arms into the city`s shops. However, the past month and a half have been a tough time for a ... » Continue Reading
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- Still Shaken in Akita!
- April 18th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture
- This is the latest in the Malcolm Ernst series of cartoons. Hi everyone. It’s your favorite bijin up here in Akita. This month I’m coming to you from my very messy room! The recent spat of earthquakes gives me a great excuse for not keeping it tidy! I don’t know ... » Continue Reading
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- Trouble at Tokyo Disneyland after quake
- March 29th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Although the visitor parking area at Tokyo Disneyland suffered considerable liquefaction damage due to the March 11 earthquake, the rides and facilities in the park itself appear to have stood up to the temblor without major problems. J-Cast News (March 24) reports t ... » Continue Reading
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- Where there is light there is hope
- March 22nd, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- This is the latest in the Malcolm Ernst series of cartoons. Hello, dear friends. It’s me, Akie. Usually I’m bringing you messages of happy bijins having fun in Akita prefecture. But today I write with a more somber tone. On Friday, March 11th at around 2:46 pm Japa ... » Continue Reading
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- GameWave – A new social network to launch in English
- March 2nd, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- A couple of weeks ago GaijinPot visited the officies of DeNA to get some inside info on how it is expanding overseas by hiring folks from amongst Japan's foreign community (find their jobs here). With over 20 million users in Japan, it has gone about as far as it can ... » Continue Reading
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- iRun: See the Tokyo Marathon like never before
- February 24th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- See former GaijinPot contributor Joseph Tame (@tamegoeswild) shatter boundaries this Sunday with his extraordinary invention – the iRun – a portable social media studio that the marathon runner will be using to share every painful step during this Sunday's Tokyo maratho ... » Continue Reading
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- Sumo in the Modern Age
- February 10th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Photography
- It was the summer of 2001 when I first came to Tokyo at the behest of a cute young Japanese girl named Nami I had met in a hostel in Rome while traveling around Europe the previous spring. I had not come to see her specifically, but she got in contact just as I had take ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese social art networks (art interlude)
- February 9th, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment
- We have looked at the size of the social network market in Japan and also seen some of the success stories that it has produced – the president of Gree for example, is the country's youngest billionaire. Earlier we also took a look at e-commerce in Japan and how that ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s most watched YouTube video of 2010
- December 16th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- We already looked at Japan's most talked about products of 2010 and dug into Google to see what the most searched for terms of the last 12 months were. What's next? Videos... The YouTube Rewind Channel has just published its video trends report for this year and in ... » Continue Reading
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- Artist Pickup: Grayson Gilmour
- December 14th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- So, perhaps we could tell a story about some kid who turns to music during their early teens in an effort to save themselves from the boredom of a small, swampy town in the middle of the New Zealand countryside. A couple of albums later, that kid packs their bags for ... » Continue Reading
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