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One great thing about the web is that it's global, it's (mostly) the same for everyone. At least that's the theory; in practice, local governments censor what they don't like, sites serve different versions to different countries and so on.
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15 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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The upcoming Tokyo Chair City Exhibition, opening on September 23rd in Japan, will house a display of 50 "111 Navy Chairs", with each leg of the chairs using recycled PET materials from 111 bottles of Coca-Cola. As an official supplier, the Japanese division of Coca-Cola will provide approximately 25,000 bottles of C... |
22 September 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Seismologists, geologists and astronomers are beginning to come to terms with the scale of the megathrust earthquake that struck Japan at 05:46 UTC (14:46 Tokyo time) on March 11, 2011. The tremor was found to have shifted Earth's axis, as well as the country's shorelines. Dr. Dave Applegate, an expert with... |
12 March 2011
04:52 GMT |
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Though it's been only a few hours since Japan has been hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever, scientists and Earth sciences experts are already beginning to comment on the scale of the disaster.
Bob Holdsworth, a professor of structural geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Durham Universit... |
11 March 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Early reports are showing that a devastating, 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, right off the coast of its most populous island, Honshu. The event began at 2:46 pm Tokyo time (0546 GMT), and was followed by severe aftershocks and tsunamis. The epicenter of the “mega” tremor was found to be some 80 mi... |
11 March 2011
02:44 GMT |
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Nintendo is getting ready to release its brand new Nintendo 3DS handheld console, so the Japanese company has just detailed the special edition of its Nintendo World 2011 conference, where it will showcase 32 games that will appear on the platform.
The Nintendo 3DS is set to be a game changer, when it is released ... |
29 December 2010
17:01 GMT |
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SEGA, via the Japanese video gaming magazine Famitsu, has announced that Ryu ga Gotoku Of The End, which can be literally translated as “Like a Dragon at the End,” will be released on the Japanese market on March 17 of next year.The video game, which was officially announced early during the fall of this ... |
16 December 2010
17:31 GMT |
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The developers of the Yakuza series have suggested that the fifth video game in the series, which is set to be called Ryu ga Gotoku: Of The End in Japan, will see the franchise take a new direction, with the main challenge that players will need to face being a massive zombie invasion that threatens Tokyo, with the v... |
15 September 2010
05:54 GMT |
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The foundation of the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System has just been laid with the launch of a new navigations satellite, nicknamed Michibiki. The spacecraft took off Saturday from the Tanegashima Space Center (TSC).The facility is located on the southernmost of Japan's main islands, Kyushu. The Yoshinobu ... |
13 September 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Like a Swiss clock, Sega announced a new addition to the Yakuza franchise at every Tokyo Games Show edition, for the past few years. This year makes no difference, and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi took the floor to give to the world Ryu Ga Gotoku 4: Densetu wo Tsugu Mono. The rough, if not very rough English tran... |
28 September 2009
09:01 GMT |
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All those gaijins yearning for that oriental flavor in gaming are about to get some good news. Sega representative Aaron Webber stated just a few days ago that the possibility of an American release was still very possible and the subject was often brought up at the Sega HQ. The currently PlayStation 3 exclusive is r... |
21 September 2009
14:01 GMT |
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It would appear that the teenagers roaming the landscape around Tokyo's Kitashikahama Park district are so poised to destroy the benches and toilets on the public premises, that city authorities have found no other solution to fight this phenomenon except for installing high-frequency sound emitters on various p... |
22 May 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Publisher Microsoft and developer FromSoftware are announcing that their upcoming Ninja Blade has just gone gold and will be released on April 7. The game is also set to get a demo that will be available on Xbox Live sometime on March 9, allowing interested players to get a sneak peek at the title. Ninja Blade is an ... |
27 February 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Many people believe that the most expensive cities in the world are in the US, on account of the fact that a lot of people probably want to live there. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, no American city has made it into the top five of the most expensive-to-live-in cities in the world... |
11 February 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Earlier today, Mount Asama, which watches over the Japanese capital of Tokyo, erupted, projecting a smoke column more than a mile high, and raining ash and other debris over parts of the city. The earliest reports coming from Japan say that there have been no immediate casualties or material damage reported. However,... |
2 February 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Aeria Games, a MMO publisher, is sending word that the beta stage for Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online is now open for gamers all over the world. The MMO is already pretty popular in Japan and even during the closed beta a lot of English speaking players were interested in the game, so the new open beta stage is de... |
5 January 2009
04:30 GMT |
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The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has announced that it will outfit the floor of its Tokyo railway station with piezoelectric devices that have the capacity to draw electricity from the steps of those passing in front of ticket booths. For now, the experiment will be fairly limited, covering a small area, but,... |
5 December 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Zookeepers at Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, had the surprise of their life, when they noticed that the bear they took care of for more than 4 years was actually a female, instead of a male, as the medical certificate said. The cream-colored animal lived with his designated pair – another female –... |
26 November 2008
11:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled a new intellectual property that the company wishes to develop in the coming years. The game is called Ninja Blade and it's shaping up to be a tough contender for the title of "Blandest game name of the year 2008." The development process for the title is handled by From Software, the make... |
2 September 2008
05:04 GMT |
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The numbers above might sound stellar, but let's not forget that we're talking about spam here, and the quality-over-quality rule doesn't quite apply: ask any spammer and he'll tell you that the more, the merrier. The Tokyo police found one of these merry men today and arrested him for sending nin... |
15 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Out of the many, many maps that I've seen this far this is one of the best and most useful. Not to me as I am not a resident of Tokyo, but I'm certain that for the tourists it's going to be a gold mine. Why did I mention the tourists? Because this map also has a special tab where the top places to visi... |
15 January 2008
06:21 GMT |
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There is no doubt about it: Japanese are addicted to robots! They're so hooked on robotry they could actually use one bot for just about every need they have.In this regard, Reuters reports on the amazing International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, which is opening today. The event is definitely going to prove the ... |
3 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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I had no idea until right this moment that ANA airlines have customized a couple of their planes Pokemon style. It makes you wonder why, but once you look at the planes, you don't even want to know why anymore, 'cause they're beautiful, just gorgeous, simply sublime... I could go on like this forever. ... |
27 March 2007
10:17 GMT |
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It's not that people don't love Michael Jackson any more. Far be it from it! It's just that, seeing that he has released no album for such a long time and that he went through that child-molestation ordeal (plus, his disappointing performance at the World Music Awards and his many financial trials and ... |
5 March 2007
10:13 GMT |
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