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Yahoo Comparison Exposes Quirky Japanese Culture

January 9, 2008January 13, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

On January 1st 2008, Yahoo! Japan officially unveiled their redesigned web portal. Despite Yahoo’s popularity among the Japanese (over 60% share of the search engine market), we’ve had to wait this long for them to come up with a flashy web 2.0 style homepage. Pushing slow adopters to increase their screen resolution With so many people in this country using Yahoo! I was quite surprised they dropped the old 800-pixel-wide […]

Japanese Beauties – Shaku Yumiko, Inoue Waka and Ayase Haruka

October 28, 2007July 19, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

I don’tÂ watchÂ a lot of Japanese TV, but every night when I get home from work, I sit down to eat dinner and watch whatever Japanese drama is on. This is a pattern I’ve followed for three years now, so I’m getting better at recognizing some of the actors and actresses that appear, reappear, and then appear again. My favorite actor is Smap’s Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, but for this post I […]