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  sk4ek at 09:22 AM JST - 13th October

  Well there are two approaches to this problem, both of which have been tried before: either bring the various point card systems together on a unified platform (like NTT Comm is proposing), or come up with a point card system and then try to get as many retailers/businesses as possible…

  Posted in NTT Communications to combine over 100 reward cards into cell phone at 09:22 AM JST - 13th October

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  sk4ek at 07:23 AM JST - 9th October

  Gee next thing you know they'll be looking at the camera and waving "Hi, Mom!!"

  Hatoyama (the younger brother) was sound asleep with his mouth wide open during one Q&A session the other day.

  Ah, our tax money hard at work...

  Posted in Yosano, Nakagawa apologize for watching TV during Diet session at 07:23 AM JST - 9th October

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  sk4ek at 12:08 PM JST - 8th October

  The lesson from Japan's own meltdowns of the past is that intervention can only work if it is done quickly and comprehensively. It took a decade to recover (and, on the individual consumer level, I don't think Japan really has recovered at all), and that was before the financial industry…

  Posted in It's curtains for turbo-capitalism at 12:08 PM JST - 8th October

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  sk4ek at 09:10 PM JST - 7th October

  Well the main thing is... did he recover the bag, or not???

  Posted in Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat at 09:10 PM JST - 7th October

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  sk4ek at 03:24 PM JST - 7th October

  Uhhhh... where does it say anything about him dying of cancer??? None of the Japanese reports I read mention it.

  And it was Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe who co-starred in "Tampopo", along with Nobuko Miyamoto. I'm pretty sure Ken Ogata wasn't in it.

  I enjoyed all of his performances,…

  Posted in Actor Ken Ogata dies at 71 at 03:24 PM JST - 7th October

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  sk4ek at 06:11 AM JST - 7th October

  I've found Google has grown increasingly less useful over the past year or so--I don't know if the problem is with their algorithms or what, but searches in Japanese regularly produces a long list of personal blogs at the top (surely all these individuals can't be using the latest SEO…

  Posted in Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant at 06:11 AM JST - 7th October

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  sk4ek at 10:04 AM JST - 6th October

  Well that, and the fact that "only" downloading from Amazon's store means access to pretty much anything that's out there in print, which will make it tough for Sony to offer a similar range of content.

  Posted in New Sony Reader has light, note-taking stylus at 10:04 AM JST - 6th October

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  sk4ek at 08:55 AM JST - 6th October

  The big news is not that it's on Blu-Ray (though that's great too), but that the film has been completely remastered from original stock--the versions that have come out over the years, from VHS to DVD, have all relied on poorly maintained stock that was dark, dirty, and incomplete. As…

  Posted in Aya Sugimoto introduces 'Godfather' DVD collection at 08:55 AM JST - 6th October

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  sk4ek at 11:45 AM JST - 5th October

  The City Council of Honolulu unfortunately knows nothing about international law, and tried to drag the General Counsel of Japan into this thinking they would have better luck getting a hold of Kawamoto--not realizing, of course, that no foreign government is going to get involved in what is strictly a…

  Posted in Residents gripe about billionaire neighbor in Hawaii at 11:45 AM JST - 5th October

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  sk4ek at 10:51 AM JST - 27th September

  The McRib is not new in Japan--it's been trotted out more than once, for a limited time, and they've also had the "McPork" sandwich.

  Okapake-- And where's the spam and rice breakfast!?!?!?! :)

  Posted in McRib sandwich at 10:51 AM JST - 27th September