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Ditch Your Old Brown Bag for a Stylish Bento Box [Daily Desired]





Bringing your own grub to work will help you save money, but the dinky tupperware you carry it in isn't exactly impressing anyone. Besides, you're too old to use your Spiderman box from junior high. Stylis...
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kinkan nisshoku
The kinkan nisshoku (annular eclipse) took place yesterday morning, during probably the busiest time of the day. I say busy because it is the prime time when people are going off to work & school.
We bought our "glasses" ahead of time and w...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal -- Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO

Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to include a multi-billion-dollar share buyback to investors of the Silicon Valley Internet giant and an eve...
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A Look At Facebook’s Potential For Growth In Japan, South Korea, China
There’s been talk lately about Facebook’s growth potential among international markets. Much of this will depend on if and when the social network determines how to sell things on mobile, and if it can set up a seamless, user-friendly payment platform.
c...
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Evernote’s new China service sees more signups than US and Japan combined during its first week
It’s been less than a week since Evernote unveiled its dedicated Chinese service, but already downloads of standalone Yinxiang Biji app are “off the charts”, according to Troy Malone, the company’s general manager in Asia Pacific.
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Japan’s DoCoMo unveils cloud services, including a translator and 5GB of storage
Japan’s leading operator DoCoMo has announced a series of cloud based services that will soon launch under its new ‘docomo cloud’ initiative, that seeks to tap into the country’s growing smartphone market.
DoCoMo has been working o...
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Japan’s top social network Mixi is reportedly set for new ownership
Japan’s ground breaking social network Mixi is reportedly set to be sold with its founder looking to offload his 55 percent majority stake in the company, according to tech blog Asiajin.
Japanese business site Nikkei reports that Mixi founder and CE...
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NICE MUSCLE!


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Yahoo Japan: CEO change won’t affect prospective sale of Yahoo Inc stake
Yahoo Japan has rejected claims that Yahoo’s latest change of leader will impact upon the potential sale of its share in the Japanese joint venture, as the troubled Web firm looks to streamline its business.
Yahoo just let its sixth CEO in seven yea...
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Japan's Softbank Carrier Unveils Earthquake-Proof Floating Cell Towers [Natural Disasters]





Even as Japan begins to emerge from the devastation from the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami, seismologists are predicting another 9.0 within the next four years. To protect its invaluable telecommunications n...
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Japan’s mobile gaming firms to work with authorities to phase out controversial game feature
The Japanese mobile gaming giants DeNA, GREE and the remainder of the industry have confirmed that they will work with authorities to remove a lucrative but controversial gaming mechanism from their services.
As we reported over the weekend, the country&#...
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things I'm liking (disliking)
It's been awhile since I've did a post on things I'm liking (and disliking)...
Starting with disliking...this milk tea, while I liked that they used earl grey, it was way too sweet.
And I love Maranatha's products, but they use palm oil in these...that a...
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PayPal comes to Japan as joint-venture is established with operator SoftBank
PayPal is keen to extend its reach into new markets, which includes a push into China, and now the online payment specialist has confirmed its move into Japan, as the Wall Street Journal reports.
In keeping with many other International firms, it has laun...
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Dating Fails: I’d Be Surprised, But It IS Japan…


The Japanese seem to have a knack for creating the creepiest forms of inanimate affection.

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I HAVE



I HAVE
the weirdest boner right now
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"dry"curry
In Japan, you'll find something on menus called "dry curry".
What you'll get when you order this is curry flavored fried rice.
The other day I went to the market looking for my favorite curry roux, but they didn't have it (boo!).
Still, I had en...
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This Real Transformer Toy Amazingly Shapeshifts on Its Own [Video]





One second the toy rolls up as a car, the next it's automatically transformed itself into an upright fighting machine that can move around, tip toe and deliver uppercuts. It's unbelievably awesome and it'...
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GREE’s founder is $406M poorer today, after rumors of mobile game regulation saw Japan’s markets crash
Over the weekend we reported that the Japanese government could be set to rule the lucrative ‘kompu gacha’ games genre illegal. It’s a move that could significantly impact the country’s mobile gaming firms, as it provides more than...
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children's day
Yesterday was Children's Day, a.k.a. Boy's Day so it was nice to be able to get together with my host-family's children.
5 of them ranging in ages from 11 to 3, talk about noisy and fun.
The weather was beautiful, sunny but not too hot.
After our bbq, we ...
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Google’s mobile revenue under threat in Japan as Yahoo Japan launches an Android browser
Android’s Droid browser may be the world’s most popular mobile browser, thanks to the phenomenal rise of the Google-owned operating system, but it has a just got a very worthy competitor in Japan’s growing smartphone market after Yahoo J...
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Photo FAIL



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A Harley That Washed Up In Canada Will Be Returned To Japanese Tsunami Survivor [Japan]





Here's some news that will brighten your day. While strolling the sands of British Columbia's Haida Gwaii Islands, a beachcomber named Peter Mark recently found a Harley Davidson swept away in the Japan ts...
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Lost Pet Parakeet Found Its Way Home By Telling the Police Its Home Address [Birds]





Squawk! Birdie's lost! Squawk! Take me home! In an amazing story of animal ingenuity, a lost pet parakeet found its way back to its owner by telling the police its full home address. The owner had trained ...
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They’ll Destroy the Music Charts Like Tall Buildings



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Not Sure FAIL



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TERETUBBIES



TERETUBBIES
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Harley Davidson Lost In Japan Tsunami Washes Up in Canada Fully Intact [Japan]





About a week ago, a soccer ball that belonged to a 16-year-old survivor of the Japanese tsunami was returned to him, after it was discovered on the Alaskan coast. But a beachcomber in Canada has since stum...
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Despite Crackdowns, Sina Still Winning the Weibo Game
Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. r...
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Martial Farts



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Panasonic Steals Crown for Giant 8k TV That Will Melt Your Face [TV]





We thought Sharp's eye-skewering, 85-inch 8k TV ad CES was an act of Zeus. It literally made us nauseous, it looked so good. But that's nothing, as of right now: Panasonic just dropped a 145-inch 7,680 x 4...
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Pick: Meet the Instagram of Japan [App Of The Day]





For some, the novelty of Instagram might eventually wear off. There are only so many ways to improve your mostly mediocre pictures. But Pick builds on the idea of altering your photos with filters and adds...
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Running Around the World




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Watching This Is the Closest You'll Get to Aerial Combat [Video]





If you've ever dreamt of flying a jet into war—I see you, joystick jockeys—this incredible GoPro footage is your best new alternative. Watch it in fullscreen if you actually want to feel nause...
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demel
Got these chocolate from Satoshi for White Day before I left for Hawaii.
Since I don't really care for chocolates with liqueur in them, I told Satoshi he could eat the ones with cognac in them.
I saved the ones from Demel and had them the other day.
It w...
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CRISIS AVERTED: Japan Standardizes Its Emoji [Japan]





There's been a storm brewing in Japan—emoji, the ubiquitous text-based faces that dominate Japanese mobile communications, have been getting mistranslated between carriers. You send a picture of a bu...
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Japanese Tsunami Survivor's Football Returned, via the Alaskan Coast [Japan]





Last year, 16-year-old Misaki Murakami's life was turned upside down when Japan's tsunami claimed his home and its contents. But now a beachcomber from Alaska has found one of his most treasured possession...
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mar ten
Having been gone from Japan for about a month, many changes occurred, some food places shut down, while new ones opened. Some markets got renovated and houses got built.
On top of that, the weather has been weird, at first it was summery-ish and now, brr...
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TELETUBBIES



TELETUBBIES
you’re doing it right
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hijiki rice salad
 While in Hawaii, I found a new recipe to try while perusing my Mom's cookbook collection.  This recipe is a fusion of Asian and Western-style cuisines and comes from the Moosewood Restaurant, a vegetarian restaurant located in New York.  I think my Mom s...
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If You Order 1,050 Slices of Bacon, Burger King Will Comply [Video]





You don't have to be a doctor to know that eating hundreds of strips of bacon at a time can't possibly be good for your health. A reporter for Japan's Rocket News 24 obviously didn't get that memo. Because...
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Japanese messaging app Line passes 30 million registered users, sees 10 million downloads in 6 weeks
It’s been a busy last month or so for Japan-based mobile messaging service Line, which has announced that it has seen 10 million new downloads since April, taking its total number of registered users past the 30 million mark.
We last covered the ser...
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Twitter CEO rules out buying an Instagram-rival: We have our own strategy
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has insisted that Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram will not sway the microblogging service into buying a similar photo-sharing service, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Comments from Costolo, who was speaking in J...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wants to be bigger in Japan, “aggressively” beef up sales staff
Twitter is aiming to increase its sales operations in Japan as it focuses on developing its business Japan, as part of its efforts to grow revenue from overseas, Bloomberg reports.
Speaking during a visit to Japan, CEO Dick Costolo revealed that the compa...
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Biometric ATM Reads Palms, Not Debit Cards [ATMs]





Want some cash in Gifu Prefecture, Japan? Come September, you'll be able to just press some flesh with one of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank's biometric ATMs to access your accounts. More »


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The Tokyo Institute of Technology's New Innovation Building Is Entirely Covered in Solar Panels [Design]





The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan's most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Envir...
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THIS GUY



THIS GUY
is an a$$hole
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This Video Will Either Convince You to Buy an Ultrabook or Lose All Sanity [Video]





The "ultrabook" doesn't exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They're great, skinny, fast laptops—but they're not cultural smash. The solution? Create a batshit crazy Japanese acid binge TV ...
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Twitter introduces brand pages in Japan, a first for Asia
Twitter first launched brand pages in the US in December last year and four months later the advertising feature has come to Japan, the first market in Asia.
DoCoMo, the country’s largest mobile operator, national retailer Lawson and Warner Entertai...
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DEAR JAPAN



DEAR JAPAN
I think we get your point… now could you please stop?
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The Coast Guard Sure Blew the Hell out of the Japanese Ghost Ship [Ghost Ship]





When we told you yesterday that America was gonna give that derelict tsunami boat a nautical spanking, it was no joke: here's photographic proof of the brutal attack on the poor, unarmed shrimping vessel. ...
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