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parallel import from USA and more

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RIAA and five major recording companies in USA have to declare clearly that they don't use their right through this Japanese new copyright law. Or Japanese culture ministry is telling a lie.

Winny

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an assistant at a graduate school at the University of Tokyo, was arrested. He made the "Winny" ,a file-sharing software. But police says "the reason why we arrest him is not to have created it.Winny is a great software.His attitude agains…

import CD, copyright law

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meeting against changing law that may ban import CDs(parallel importation), 2004.5.4 ans: Japanese 5 majors' import amount are 40 percent of all import CDs. The foreign CDs pressed in japan are 70 millions. The imported CDs are 60 millions…

The cult guru's defense appealed immediately

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控訴らしい 書くのも嫌だが、ちゃんと書いておこう 松本智津夫、一審判決死刑。ネットで知る。

stalker from US

Last December, one American man ,23, with knife in a hand came to see Niigata Univ. student who had put her photo on web. Now the University is concidering about the rule of making homepages. ( http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040218-00…

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The www.wedding-japan.com has deleted the famous site www6.big.or.jp/~beyond/akutoku/ from Google by asking it to Google.

Korea

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in 2ch, biggest thread-BBS in Japanese, there are some news-BBS , but news threads concerned to Korea and North-Korea can not be made. these news BBS is seperated, so threads must be made there.very unnatural. This result was made after F5…

Do you know Japan?

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Even Forbes (and other US magazines) can talk about Japan only superficially. http://blog.japan.cnet.com/umeda/archives/000964.html

Koga

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Mr. Koga, a parliamentarian, is now searching for his own history in US universities....

Akutagawa prize (Novel) this year

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http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/akutagawa/ Risa Wataya (right)is one of the winners, 19 years old.Some people say that it is the result of attempt for getting popularity to Novels.

hallo

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I have linked this english part of pages from my main site. But it must be confused. ...

Queen

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Brian May answered to a fan mail from Ayumi, a japanese lady. He says that CCCD (copy protected CD) is wasted. http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjan04.html Recently the Beatles' "let it be ...naked" is sold with CCCD, so some …

いまさら復習*1

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いまさらながら。発売当日まで告知なし。 CCCD化されたこと自体にはそれほどの怒りはない。・・・ (略)とにかくもう「店頭に並ぶまで黙ってた」って点に関しては本当に許せない。 http://app.memorize.ne.jp/d/20/11696/2003/11/1/31/0000000235/N ,2003/1…

MR.BIG

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Most heavy metal guitar websites don't have ANY pictures of Tomoe. What are they thinking?! No website is complete without a Tomoe page. どこのへヴィーメタルギターのウェブにも、ともえの写真がないじゃないか。何考えてんの?それじゃあ完璧とは…

?English ぶりっこ

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こんなんで良かったかなあ説明。(訊かれたので) Is it good or not? my explanation(answer): "burikko": Girls (idols) who behave too cute though they are not cute. the same girl may be called "kawaii" and "burikko" by others."uzai": (adjectiv…

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http://www.hotwired.co.jp/webmonkey/2003/47/index0a_page4.html こういうの、(多分直訳なんだろう)見ると、 アメリカ人とかって、いつもこんなで(違う?)疲れないんだろうかって思います。 独特のウィット?(これはそうでもないか) Reading this and …

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I have a question. how many bytes are Hatena's log limit of my (your) diary ?

まあ、間違いは恥とは思わず。

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I want to let anybody come to my piano concert, not only Japanese. So I write its invitation on my site both in japanese ,and in English. But yet ... Once in my Univ. days, when I had finished a piano-piece as always, I heard hand claps on…

 英語のコーナー ?English

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