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Category: Society
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iPhone for Foreigners
Japan Probe has posted some disturbing news regarding the newly launched iPhone 3G in Japan. According to the terms on the Softbank website: “If you have less than 15 months left on your visa, you wont be able to make a contract, but they’ll sell the phone to you without a plan for ¥80.000.” What???…
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The Manufacturing of Booms
Over at Clast, Marxy examines booms as a marketing strategy, and the end of an era. I’m just sorry I missed out on 1957, the year of the Calypso Style.
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Neojaponisme: Flower Train
Neojaponisme hosts a video documentary by Ian Lynam on sexual assaults on Tokyo subways.
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From Shibuya-kei to Akiba-kei
Over at the Clast blog, Marxy examines the relationship between Shibuya-kei and the newly-coined Akiba-kei.
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PingMag: Guerilla Green
PingMag covers a phenomenon any Tokyo resident is very much used to seeing: the desire by some to add green to the city in a variety of ways, but mostly by creating islands of flowerpots.
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Mobile Post Office
Japan Post has launched Japan’s first mobile post office in the form of the van pictured above. It includes an ATM, and is set to be used in the Aichi prefecture’s rural areas — last year’s privatization saw lots of closings of regional offices. Via Japan Today.
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Tokyo Camouflage
A reader sent me a link to this article, and I’m having trouble believing THE NEW YORK TIMES would publish something like this. Camouflage vending machine costumes? Come on, this is fodder for tabloids or even THE ONION.