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- Girls get dressed with Google (video)
- December 9th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- The video below is from the ‘More with Google’ campaign, a smart and sweet branding campaign in Japan created by ad agency Wieden + Kennedy. Although the main thrust is to help bring awareness to Google's new products and services in Japan (especially as the company ha ... » Continue Reading
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- Tonoharu: The comic about English teachers
- December 8th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- We have seen a TV series on English teachers in Japan and now we have this, a graphic novel depicting the story of an ALT (assistant language teacher) living a small town in the Japanese countryside. Produced by American comic publisher Top Shelf Productions (the pub ... » Continue Reading
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- Artist pickup: Everything Everything
- December 7th, 2010Category: Culture
- Note: Something new, here we take a look at some of the foreign artists and musicians who are starting to make in-roads into the Japanese music scene with the help of the guys at PTV. Imagine a band who fuse three part harmonies with scalding post-punk guitars; floor ... » Continue Reading
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- Abandoned Japan
- December 7th, 2010Category: Culture
- Japan is going to face all sorts of changes as it gets to grips with a declining population. If you have a sharp eye and are open to traveling around the less touristy parts of the country, then there are already a few signs of how this might play out. The images he ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo train lines: best babes and worst habits
- December 6th, 2010Category: Culture
- What’s going through the minds of those hordes of daily rail commuters who jam the trains in metropolitan Tokyo? Japanese magazine Spa! (Dec 7) gives its readers a heads-up on where unexpected delights await and unseen dangers lurk. “More trains these days are using ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreign entrepreneurs: Fancy a smooch?
- December 6th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- You know that Smooch must be an interesting and fun company when the CEO refers to himself on his business card as Chief Smooch. Marcus Yeung, a Tokyo-based entrepreneur and founder of smoothie pioneer Smooch Japan KK, is certainly having a good time, despite the toug ... » Continue Reading
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- Anime Look Back: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- December 3rd, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Writer/director Hayao Miyazaki dabbled with plucky women in his anime previously, most notably with the character of Fujiko Mine in the Lupin III series – see The Castle of Cagilostro (1979) just for starters. He also had younger heroines like the Pippi Longstockinge ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s top products for 2011?
- December 1st, 2010Category: Shopping
- Last week we took a look at what advertising goliath Dentsu found to be Japan's top products of 2010. A hit list that they gauged from the products and services that scored well across three categories — “recognition,” “have/had interest” and “is/was popular.” Perha ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese thief provides some new revelations into local crime
- December 1st, 2010Category: Culture
- Career second-story man Hajime Karasuyama (a nom de plume) has been telling various parts of the Japanese press about his just-published autobiographical work — “Shokugyo, Dorobo: Nenshu Sanzenman-en” (Occupation, thief: annual income, 30 million yen) — which hit book ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s iPhone craze attracting worldwide developers
- November 29th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- For years, the typical Japanese cell phone — built to operate on a network hardly used anywhere else in the world — has been stuffed with quirky games such as those by Japan's youngest billionaire, and other applications that cater to specialized local tastes. That h ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s hit products of 2010
- November 26th, 2010Category: Shopping
- Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency has just released the results of its 2010 Hit Products survey. They polled people over the internet to find what products folks in Japan got excited about. Their findings? Smart phones such as the likes of iPhone and Android were ... » Continue Reading
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- Android Development Jobs in Japan
- November 25th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- Interested in finding work on the Android platform? Click here. We have previously covered the success that Apple has had in breaking open the Japanese tech sector and the legacy problems Japan faces with the 'Galapagos syndrome.' Now you can prepare for a new wav ... » Continue Reading