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Top 10 RPGs, According to RPG Fans

10/23/2009 11:57:00 am

ゆき Ezura

Japanese RPG fans quizzed about their favourite RPG titles have given a fair acquittal of their tastes, even if the list is predictably heavy on Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy at the expense of more original titles…

The ranking:

1. Final Fantasy X

2. Dragon Quest III

3. Final Fantasy VII

4. Persona 4

5. Kingdom Hearts II

6. Dragon Quest IX

7. Tales of the Abyss

8. Dragon Quest V

9. Chrono Trigger

10. Fallout 3

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Posted in Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy X, Games, Kingdom Heart, Persona 4, RPG, Tales Of Abyss

Cop arrested for stealing girl's underwear during investigation

10/22/2009 11:05:00 pm

ゆき Ezura

HYOGO - A 26-year-old local police officer was arrested for theft and illegal trespassing early Tuesday after he allegedly stole 25 pieces of underwear from a 14-year-old girl who lived at an apartment he was visiting as part of an investigation. Officer Yuki Miyamoto is suspected of sneaking into the girl’s room and stealing underwear from her dresser after visiting the apartment on Saturday.

The girl had phoned police after being flashed by a strange man on the same day, and Miyamoto had taken the call. He visited the girl’s apartment on

Saturday afternoon. Only the girl and her younger sister, 13, were home at the time. Later that night, the girl was about to get into the bath when she noticed that all her panties were gone. Her mother called the police.

According to police, after speaking with the girl at the entrance to the apartment, Miyamoto said that he would like to check her bedroom. The girl quoted him as saying that he had to call headquarters in private. She said he took his bag and went into her room to make a call.

Miyamoto first denied the charges, but changed his statement and admitted to stealing the girl’s panties. He said he threw them away after realizing he would be caught.

(via JapanToday)

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Posted in cops, Crime, Japan, Thief, underwear

Man slashes woman because he 'can't get a girlfriend'

10/18/2009 11:46:00 pm

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OSAKA —

Police said Friday they have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly

slashing a woman, 30, with a bladed weapon in Higashi-Osaka on Thursday night. The woman suffered minor injuries.

According to police, Akihito Naito was not acquainted with the woman. He was quoted as saying, “I can’t get a girlfriend because women always turn me down. I thought this would make me feel better. I didn’t target any specific woman. Anyone would have been OK.”

Naito reportedly approached the woman, who was chatting with a co-worker, on his bike and cut her from behind. He then threw away his bike and ran away, but was caught by two passersby about 50 meters away. A box cutter was found nearby.

suzumiya_haruhi_episode_23_kyon.jpg image by Nebs66

(via JapanToday)

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Twitter launches Japanese mobile site

10/16/2009 11:24:00 am

ゆき Ezura

TOKYO - Twitter Inc is turning Japanese. Or at least trying to. The popular microblogging service on Thursday launched a Japan-based mobile version, hoping to penetrate a country where other U.S. social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have failed to capture much ground.

Japanese is Twitter’s sole foreign language platform so far, and the company’s efforts here indicate it’s serious about making it in Japan.

Twitter teamed up with Tokyo-based Internet firm Digital Garage Inc in early 2008. It launched a Japanese-language platform for cellphones and other mobile devices in the spring of 2008, and hired a Japan country manager earlier this year.

The company is experimenting with making money from features it doesn’t use on its English language site, such as banner ads.

While early adopters were mainly male tech geeks, the messaging service is finally gaining some traction in mainstream Japan. Between January and June, the number of users jumped almost fourfold to 783,000, according to Internet research firm NetRatings.

Japanese celebrities and politicians are starting to sign up. So are traditional media outlets like newspapers and radio stations as well as municipalities and companies eager to take advantage of Twitter’s marketing potential.

Lawmaker Kenzo Fujisue first heard about Twitter from a friend in Silicon Valley and now tweets regularly throughout the day. He has more than 5,400 followers, and his 140-character messages—all in Japanese—range from serious policy issues to the more mundane, like what he ate for dinner.

“People don’t really know what politicians do,” he said. “Twitter helps me give people a glimpse of the lawmaking process.”

Still, Twitter remains a mystery to the vast majority of Japanese web users. Mixi, the country’s top social networking site, has 17 million users and is aiming for 30 million within four years.

The key to expansion in Japan is to go mobile, Digital Garage’s Rocky Eda said back in June.

A survey the company conducted earlier this year showed that 95% of Japanese Twitter users accessed the service via cell phones. Mobile-based writers account for some 40% of regular blogging in Japan, and about a quarter of Mixi users rely on their cell phones to update their pages.

While Twitter already operates a mobile site in English, many of its features are incompatible with Japanese language usage. Instead, many mobile users in Japan had been relying on third-party platforms like “movatwitter.”

The new Japanese mobile version was jointly developed by Twitter and Digital Garage, and is compatible with Japan’s major mobile carriers and the quirks of the local market. Emoticons can be imbedded into messages, and users can directly update their profile without having to turn to their PC.

Yukari Matsuzawa, Twitter’s Japan country manager, says that growth will also depend on users themselves.

“As Japanese people creatively start to use Twitter, it will help define what the tipping point will be,” she said. “It will be a combination of excellent innovative users in Japan as well as more celebrities, as well as influential people.”

(via JapanToday)

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Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites

Washington - Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.

Twitter’s website, Twitter.com, is currently only offered in English or Japanese.

Biz Stone, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup, said in a blog post that Twitter was planning versions of its website in other languages, starting with French, German, Italian and Spanish.

He invited a “small group” of Twitter users to become “volunteer translators” to suggest translations for the Twitter website.

“We will distribute the translations to Twitter platform developers making it easier for them to offer multiple language support as well,” he said.

“We’re very excited that more people will be able to use Twitter in their native language!” he added.

Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with 140-character-or-less messages known as “tweets,” has grown rapidly in popularity since it was launched in August 2006 and claims to have topped 50 million users.

(via JapanToday)

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Posted in French, Germany, Italian, Japan, Japanese, Spanish, twitter

Air Guitar

10/11/2009 10:43:00 pm

ゆき Ezura

Ever play guitar hero? It is a game on guitar and need to have the special made Guitar controller to spice up your gaming joys.

Now this gadget looks like that guitar controller, but it’s kind of different because it is using a infra-red to read your right hand movements and you left hand will need to push the correct keys.

Air Guitar is last years hot stuff. But it keeps the popularity as many of us love the air guitaring style and the ever increasing passionate souls on guitar.

Here is the video demonstration of Air Guitar:

You can get the Air Guitar at 2 merchant, first is Firebox for $26.69 or at Brando for $28.89. Get it now and start playing guitar like a hero!

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You might also find this gadget interesting!

It’s practically another version of the last air guitar pro we covered. It’s the acoustic type of guitar, which make your collection of air guitar complete now.

“You’ve already mastered Guitar Hero, now test your guitar skills with the Air Guitar Pro! This toy consists of the upper neck of a guitar with infared ray strings that make the sound as your fingers hit the fretboard.

The controller has seven buttons on the front to press to hold down chords and also buttons on the side to identify the chords as major, minor, augmented or diminished. Just strum thin air and you’ll be playing in no time! It also includes ten songs for air guitar beginners.

Get yours and be the first of your friends to actually make some music when you play the air guitar.”

– by AudioCubes

Here is a fanatic of air guitar on the show: