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    Help your blog grow with OtakuStuff.com

    I’m sitting here after an all-nighter working on OtakuStuff.com. It really has becoming an addiction, and I still don’t feel as though I’m finished messing with it. Its going to be an ongoing project of love, sweat, restless nights, and pineapple pocky. I have really high hopes for OtakuStuff.com since there isn’t really a news […] More

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    Trick

    When a local magician Yamada Naoko (Nakama Yukie) gets fired from her job due to not being able to attract customers, she feels all hope is lost. Her boss feels a bit bad and gives her a newspaper article by physics professor Ueda (Abe Hiroshi) claiming money to whoever can prove to him that magic […] More

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    Blog of the Year

    Just a little reminder, if you have not voted on the Japan Blogs of the Year, head over to WhatJapanThinks.com in order to do so. There are a lot of good blogs nominated, and it’s always good to find other blogs on Japan. I think next year, I’m going to strive to be on that […] More

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    MIXI CTO Resigns

    Well, now that you are educated from my last post on how huge MIXI is, just a bit of quick news about the service. The CTO Batara Eto announced that he will step down as Chief Technology Office at the end of December 2007. Eto lead the MIXI engineering team in Japan. He will remain […] More

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    Second Life for your phone?

    Second Life for your phone? Well that’s what Media Groove has created for the technologically advanced citizens of Japan. In Chipuya Town, users create avatars, and jump into a world similar to Animal Crossing meets Habbo Hotel. You can buy shoes, outfits, furniture for your apartment, and soon even vehicles and pets. Chipuya, Shibuya, get […] More

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    MIXI, Japan’s MySpace

    With the big names in Social sites being Myspace and Facebook here in the USA, you may be wondering what does everyone in Japan use. While many Japanese are starting to venture onto Myspace, since they have a global version in many different languages (including Japanese), the majority of people use MIXI as their social […] More

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