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Tomomi Sasaki

Japanese Language Co-Editor

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January 28th, 2010

Japan: In Choosing a Job (or Company)

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With limited work experience, how does one make the decision on which company to work for, straight out of university? The question carries weight when you take in the fact that there's a good chance that some of these students might work for that company until they retirement. 1 comment · read »

January 27th, 2010

East Asia

In response to the news that the Osaka Governor is talking about closing down Itami Airport, Joe Jones at the Mutant Frog Travelogue contemplates obsolete airports and suggests alternate uses.

January 26th, 2010

East Asia

Mari from Watashi to Tokyo links to a pageful of illustrations of Pokemon done in ancient Japanese style.

January 21st, 2010

East Asia

The Twitter application Politter offers lists of tweets from the official accounts of Japanese politicians. It also has an interface for hashtags related to politics. @masamix0417 uses it instead of following the politicians on Twitter. [ja]

January 19th, 2010

East Asia

Satomi Uchimura explores the meaning of QT (Quoted Tweets), which is used in some parts of the Japanese twittersphere.

January 18th, 2010

East Asia

In a post titled ‘Media Shifts Make Japan A Harder Read‘, the Shisaku blog describes the changes in the way major news outlets have been reporting news since the establishment of the new administration and why “the world is relying more and more on unfiltered retransmission what Japanese media outlets are producing”.