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| | Big in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Big In Japan's EP Big in Japan was a punk band that emerged from Liverpool in the late 1970s. | | | They are better known for their band members than for their music. | | | Big in Japan is also a single by German band Alphaville |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan
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| | GUANO APES - BIG IN JAPAN |
| | BIG IN JAPAN’s first track is the Alphaville classic "Big In Japan" which we recorded last summer for Herbert Groenemeyers project POP 2000 (50 years of German rock music). | | | The remix of "Big In Japan" comes as a special bonus track for the digipak and was mixed by Dirk Riegener. | | | As a Rock band, we didn’t want to co-ver a Rock song, that would be boring. |
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http://www.guanoapes.com/english/records/biginjapan.html
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| | Big In Japan by Alphaville Songfacts |
| | Big in Japan was released in January 1984. | | | Many rock bands that are well past their prime continue to be "Big in Japan" long after they cannot draw a large audience in the UK or US. | | | The movie Spinal Tap also made fun of this phenomenon, as the band had a hit single in Japan just as they appeared to be washed up. |
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=3533
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| | Lazyeye Interview: Bright Eyes -- May 2000 |
| | Though Oberst points to the recording handiwork as "the big difference" about the CD, anyone who's heard his other recordings will immediately point toward the poppiness of the melodies, the artful supporting players and the downright tunefulness of it all. | | | These were the biggest magazines in Japan, and the Japanese are really in tune with what the music's about. | | | With the CD in the stores, Oberst, with a revolving band of Saddle Creek associates backing him, will be spending most of the summer and fall on the road, starting with gigs in Athens, New York and London before coming back to Omaha for a June 17 show at Sokol Underground. |
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http://www.timmcmahan.com/brighteyes2.htm
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| | Big in Japan: a custom- tailored cowboy culture csmonitor.com |
| | The group dance was brought to Japan by Natsuko-san, an irrepressible dancing force who tells this reporter, "Just call me Wild Grace." She found line dancing in Texas honky-tonks, and felt compelled to share it back home. | | | The leader of one of Japan's top country bands, Nakasone began singing in 1956, and formed a band in '61: "The Hill Top Hens." But the band wasn't getting work. | | | Finally, they changed their name to "Charlie and the Cannonballers," Two days later, the band got a job and never looked back. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1113/p07s02-woap.html
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| | Jayne Casey interview |
| | While Pink Industry was mostly a transition between Big in Japan and Pink Industry, that band's one album still contains a few great songs, showcasing Casey's unique voice. | | | The band is a big legend, and everybody involved went on to do other things. | | | So Bill and Dave Balfe said, "Look, we want to set up a record company and release your record", and that was Zoo. |
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http://www.appelstein.com/cif/jaynecasey.html
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| | Big In Japan English |
| | No wet-behind-the-ears cherries to the land of music, members of Big In Japan were "showing contempt in analog in the name of the brand new underdog" in two woefully underrated, long-running bands Zoinks! | | | Armed with dive-bombing whoo yeah yeah choruses, twin-blazing bubble gum and barbed wire guitars, smash pop attack drumming, smart bass, and the ghost of the clean-shaven Elvis Costello as bombardier, Big In Japan is as surprising and effective as the attack on Pearl Harbor. | | | Loaded to bear with the heated oil of clean-faced, dark-hearted pop in the vein of Big Drill Car and Green Day, Big In Japan oscillates from pop to punk effortlessly. |
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http://www.fatwreck.de/ukbig.html
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| | Big in Japan |
| | Second division rock groups who couldn't make the charts back home used to say they were big in Japan, implying they had a world-wide following. |
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/64700.html
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| | NME.COM - News - BIG IN JAPAN! |
| | The Ordinary Boys' debut album has stormed to Number One - in JAPAN. | | | Following in the footsteps of Brit acts like Shampoo, the Britpack band's debut album 'Over The Counter Culture' has topped the country's international Chart - knocking Keane's 'Hopes And Fears' from the top. | | | The band topple Keane from the summit in the most unusual of places... |
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http://www.nme.com/news/109141.htm
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| | Big Brother: In Japan |
| | The Parker House Roll was a tiny room with a big audience. | | | The next morning the band went to Denny's of all places. | | | Taku Taku is written with very complex characters that hearken back to the old Japan. |
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http://www.bbhc.com/japan.htm
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| | Big in Japan - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com |
| | My first "Big in Japan" experience was the Robert Patton eurobeat song that appeared in Initial D 2nd Stage (the anime) and its accompanying music CD. | | | Tom Waits definitely did a song by that title, and I can vividly remember my friends and I watching and commenting about a video from the 80's called Big in Japan, and although the artist's name escapes me, Alphaville sounds familiar. | | | If you can name the band who recorded that song, award yourself a gold star. |
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http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000907033315
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| | Big In Japan from Reno, NV |
| | A new five song EP is being prepped for the presses and due to be released this fall on Insubordination Records. | | | Since Big in Japan is no longer a functioning band, this site will be shut down within the next couple of weeks. | | | All five songs are unreleased out-takes from both the "Destroy the New Rock" and "Who Really Needs a Heart, Anyway?" sessions. |
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http://www.biginjapan.net
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| | Big in Japan: Information From Answers.com |
| | Big in Japan was a New Wave band from the late 1970s, best known as the source of future musicians in more well-known bands. | | | Big in Japan is mentioned in the following topics: | | | Some good "Big in Japan" pages on the web: |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/big-in-japan
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| | Big in Japan >> Aversion.com |
| | Though the band's guitars rage loud enough to earn them a tangential affilation with punk rock, the band's real love is simple pop. | | | The band features former members of Screeching Weasel and the Gain. | | | Big In Japan plays fairly straightforward power pop. |
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http://www.aversion.com/bands/biginjapan
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| | Big In Japan |
| | Last year, I had prepared a CD of popular American music and corresponding information on the artists -- taking great pains to show a wide variety of styles and influences. | | | There aren't any classes, so the kids must practice sports, or their musical instruments or other activities for three to four hours a day. | | | I remember being quite proud of my work --thinking I had shed some light on such a big component of US culture. |
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http://ilickgreenthings.blogspot.com
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| | Big Respect / Japan |
| | To top all this off, the Nova usagi's commercial jingle actually became a No. 1 hit on the J-pop charts for a couple of weeks. | | | They do not understand the nature of the evil that occured, is occuring and -- due to their lack of understanding -- will continue to occur. | | | Or, echoing a patriotic song from another era, they shouted, roughly: ''May a big sword chop off the Japanese heads!'' |
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http://homepage.mac.com/tev/iblog/C382530552
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| | K8: Big In Japan |
| | I came back to Canada in the spring of 2002. | | | For anyone who's been here before, I've moved back to Canada, but since there's still more to do on this site, I'm just going to keep working on it. | | | Meanwhile, stay tuned for more information on teaching, living in Japan, and more. |
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http://coming_the_k8.tripod.com/konnichiwa
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| | Big in Japan |
| | They gather in Tokyo's Shibuya district—teenage girls with unnaturally dark tans, hair streaked with gray, cell phones dangling like charms from chains, schoolgirl uniforms shortened up to there. | | | Look at Fukunaga: He jumped on a property that, while enormous in Japan, was nonexistent here, likely because companies were loath to license an animated hit so unlike American cartoons. | | | Matsuno says the ubiquitous adolescent girls are the ones to watch. |
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http://www.entrepreneur.com/mag/article/0,1539,294477,00.html
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| | Salon Books Not big in Japan |
| | Although Bungei Shunju, the book's publisher, says it's satisfied with the book's performance so far -- sales have reportedly hit 50,000 since it was released in November -- "Sayuri" hasn't launched a "geisha boom" in Japan. | | | Through her journey from fisherman's daughter born near the Sea of Japan to her ascent into the upper echelons of Kyoto geishahood, Arthur Golden's Sayuri has charmed Western hearts, and his novel has leapt onto American bestseller lists. | | | Now, more than two years after "Memoirs of a Geisha" was first published in the United States, the book is getting a big shrug from Japanese readers and a decisive thumbs down from the woman Golden credits with teaching him the most intimate aspects of geisha life. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/03/geisha
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| | DR-Big Club Japan |
| | They don't sell the Big Off-Road motorcycles over 400cc in Japan. | | | But one of the answers we can write in English is that the Big Off-Road motorcycles are not popular in Japan. | | | - This is the opinion often written in the Japanese motorcycle magazines, so most riders never dream that the Big-Offs have great fun riding in Japan. |
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~jf2k-otkb/drbig/index-e.html
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| | Mac Games: (Not) Big in Japan - Ferrago News Portal |
| | "SCE Japan has two wonderful titles to announce..." | | | Many of his games feature a cat ("neko" in Japanese) and are rather plain looking, using just two shades of aqua green to... | | | Many of his games feature a cat ("neko" in Japanese) and are rather plain looking, using just two shades of aqua... |
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http://www.ferrago.com/portal/cluster/35351
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| | Metropolis - Big in Japan: Murakami Haruki |
| | They were rapidly translated into English and other languages and scored a big hit in the US, where the novels acquired a strong cult following. | | | The appeal of Murakami's fiction lies in the characters and sub-plots that are interwoven through all of his novels. | | | His fiction, along with the work of Banana Yoshimoto, is the closest Japan has got to the genre of magic realism. |
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http://metropolis.japantoday.com/biginjapanarchive249/233/biginjapaninc.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited World dispatch Big in Japan |
| | Nevertheless, far from being the scourge of sumo, Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, as he is known to his family and friends, represents its best chance of emerging unscathed from one of the most difficult times in its modern history. | | | Sumo grand champion Asashoryu, wearing a ceremonial belly band, performs a sacred ring-entering ritual at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. | | | The lumbering Akebono, still carrying much of the 230kg that had served him so well in sumo, hit the canvass inside the first round as his petrified wife and young children looked on. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1145139,00.html?=rss
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| | Big Bird in Japan (1991) (TV) |
| | They go along with her to say good-bye to her friends. | | | The two befriend a young woman, who is leaving Japan the same time they will be. | | | Big Bird and Barkley are traveling all over Japan, because they got separated from their tour group, so it really gives the viewer a chance to see some areas of Japan. |
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0421725
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| | Big in Japan |
| | They go in hopes of making it big in one of Japan's most lucrative industries... | | | This program was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. | | | site for English language teaching professionals who work in Japan or who are interested in working in Japan. |
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http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/165/name/Big+in+Japan
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| | Japan retailers report big DS preorders - News at GameSpot |
| | Japan retailers report big DS preorders - News at GameSpot | | | Of course, the machine isn't out until December 2 in Japan, but electronics retailers are including preorders for the system in their sales calculations. | | | On preorders alone, the Nintendo DS is the third best-selling system in Japan this week. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/22/news_6111164.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Big in Japan |
| | But to be over 30 is an important time for an actor." Sanada's work grew more varied: between the action films - which he still makes - he starred in TV soaps, drama, musicals, comedy. | | | In his native Japan, everyone knows his work, whereas over here... | | | Resplendent in traditional Japanese garb - he's taking a break from rehearsals - he looks a decade younger than his 39 years. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0,3604,259348,00.html
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| | Japan Media Review -- Expat Bloggers Big in Japan |
| | Thanks to Paul Baron of IN-duce.net for the use of his photos. | | | The most active bloggers in Japan seem to be expats writing about what it's like to be an expat in Japan, but Japanese bloggers are slowly getting into the act. | | | When he and his wife moved to Japan in 1998, they didn't speak Japanese and had few friends here. |
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http://www.ojr.org/japan/internet/1048789636.php
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| | Big in Japan- Welcome |
| | Big in Japan Version 1.0 -The first version made in while at CSUMB | | | This site will be a way for me to extend my design and home-page making abilities while informing people on my life in Japan in my own unique way. | | | I hope this new version of my site has both interesting content and innovative design. |
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/blake/464/welcome.html
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| | Japanese Girls Love Russian Cheburashka - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | The sound comes from a TV set, which shows Russian cartoon series about Cheburashka - a little funny animal with very big ears. | | | Everybody in Russia is accustomed to Harry Potters, Pokemons, Barbies, but it is really surprising to see a Russian cartoon character in Japan. | | | Small children do not buy this toy, though, but young girls of 20-25 years old do. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/95/380/10688_cheburashka.html
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| | Panderers in Japan |
| | a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. |
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http://japander.com
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| | Metropolis - Big in Japan: Pockey |
| | Fake Pocky are besieging the market with poor quality efforts such as the scandalously named "Chocky." Even the counterfeiters in the back streets of Bangkok are moving from fake Armani to fake Pocky, detectable by their under-priced, oversized boxes. | | | Pocky: the world' first designer chocolate, made in Japan. | | | A community of these social outcasts has spawned on the Internet, providing mutual support as well as hints on where you can get your hit when forced to leave Japan for more than a few days, breaking news on new flavors, how to spot poor imitations and so on. |
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http://www.tokyoclassified.com/biginjapanarchive299/259/biginjapaninc.htm
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| | Metropolis - Big in Japan: Hello Kitty! |
| | Japan' reigning idol among teenage females is a cute 24-year-old who lives with her twin sister, Mimmy, and her parents George and Mary White, in London, England. | | | Sanrio's idea worked so well that in 1991 another amusement park opened in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu. | | | She made her market début in 1975 on a small plastic coin purse and since then Kitty has found her way into nearly every home in Japan, along with other Sanrio characters such as Pochacco the puppy, Keroppi the frog and Pekkle the duck. |
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http://metropolis.japantoday.com/biginjapanarchive249/234/biginjapaninc.htm
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| | Free Nokia Ringtones - Alphaville - Big In Japan |
| | Free Nokia Ringtones - Alphaville - Big In Japan | | | If you see the following: (5) or P and H 5 then hold down the number for 3 seconds until a dot appears. |
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http://www.321mobile.com/ringtones.php?id=88
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| | Metropolis - Big in Japan: Tokyo Tower |
| | Chiefly a relay tower for nine TV stations and five FM radio stations, the tower is better known as the city's preeminent kitsch tourist destination. | | | Constructed by Takenaka Corporation, Japan' oldest architecture, engineering and construction firm, and completed in 1958 at a cost of JY2.8 billion, this grand edifice, at a height of three hundred and 333m, entered the record books as the world's highest self-supporting iron structure. | | | However, due to its advanced steel construction, it is half the weight (4,000 tons versus 7,000) of its French sibling, and represents Japan amongst "The World Federation of Great Towers," in which 21 other towers and monuments around the world are also listed. |
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http://metropolis.japantoday.com/BigInJapan/biginjapaninc.htm
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| | TIMEasia Magazine: The Beast Goes East |
| | TIME celebrates the people who remind us what the human spirit can achieve | | | The man who just a couple of years ago considered $125 per body a princely sum will likely make well in excess of $3 million in 2003. | | | His success in the ring, however, is overshadowed by the pop-culture phenomenon he has become in Japan. |
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http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/bob_sapp/story.html
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| | CoCo: DRM: Big in Japan |
| | Control of such an extent has or will have a stifling effect on innovation in Japan both on the content production level as well as on the content carrier/editor development level -- a very unpromising outlook indeed. | | | In my paper I take a closer look at the implementation of DRM schemes [in Japan] and analyze what effect they have on the use and re-use of the content they aim to protect. | | | I argue that the scope of this protection is much wider than it should be; in essence, every use that is not specifically permitted by the content provider is in fact prohibited. |
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http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/02/drm-big-in-japan.html
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| | Metropolis - Big in Japan: Anpanman |
| | Even if you don't like to eat anpan, his round face, rosy cheeks, and big smile are sure to win you over. | | | But do you know about Anpanman, the cartoon character whose head is made of anpan? | | | Mothers are probably thankful that their toddlers can make so many healthy "food" friends watching the show, and even befriend Hamigakiman (Tooth-brushing Man), one of the gang featured on Anpanman's web page. |
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http://www.metropolis.co.jp/biginjapanarchive299/283/biginjapaninc.htm
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| | Big on Japan (February 25, 2005) |
| | New exhibits at the Palo Alto Art Center showcase prints, textiles and cabinetry | | | Yet surprisingly, this era also produced a wealth of artistic creativity. | | | Rare surimono prints, plus indigo-dyed textiles and cabinetry, provide often unseen examples of the subtle beauty and artistic creativity of 17th through 19th century Japan. |
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http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2005/2005_02_25.surimono25.shtml
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| | Wired News: Pokey Man Big in Japan |
| | Another game for the PC, Chimgam, which was developed by a Korean company, features a squatting character who emits big, swirly poops. | | | Taff System recently signed a deal to distribute 200 Boong-Ga Boong-Ga machines in arcades all around Japan. | | | Developed by a Korean company, Taff System, the game was received enthusiastically at the Tokyo Game Show last year. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,48438,00.html
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| | I'm Big In Japan |
| | Main > Archives > I'm Big In Japan | | | ActivSoftware just launched a full scale email server, email campaign management interface, and email campaign tracking system capable of sending up to 1 million emails per hour. | | | He informed me that he and all of his colleagues in Japan read my blog on a regular basis and they like what they read. |
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http://www.marketingshift.com/2005/02/im-big-in-japan.cfm
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| | Forbes.com: Big In Japan |
| | One obvious outcome would be for American firms to buy their way into Japan, getting pipeline drugs and a new market of their own. | | | That should worry U.S. investors at least a little, because Japan has been the source of some of the drug industry's biggest sellers. | | | Until now, Japanese drugmakers have been trapped in their own small world. |
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http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/25/cx_mh_0225japan_print.html
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| | EURSOC: Big In Japan |
| | Her existence was only confirmed when her father was dying. | | | Guy Birenbaum, author of the book which contains the Chirac story, cites websites, unconfirmed reports, speculation and circumstantial evidence (such as M Chirac's 40 official and unofficial visits to Japan in the past twenty years) to back up his claim. | | | He admits, however, that the president's much documented love of Japan may be the reason for his visits. |
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http://www.eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/64/Big_In_Japan.html
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| | Big Planet Japan News |
| | Nu Skin Japan's Big Planet-branded Internet Service is available via web sign up and paper application sign up beginning April 3, 2000, and via CD-ROM on May 1, 2000. | | | Nu Skin Enterprises news releases are available online at www.nuskinenterprises.com or through the Company News On-Call fax service. | | | The Internet service will be co-branded as "Big Planet powered by @nifty" and will be offered through NIFTY. |
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http://www.fightcholesterol.com/japannews
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| | The Shinanomachi & Kameda English |
| | I don't eat Inago or small fluffy rabbits | | | In addition, many of us have been teaching in Japan between 5 to 10 or more years. | | | English School Niigata EThe English LOFT ETeaching English and living in Japan |
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/EnglishLOFT
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| | Wired News: Mac Games: (Not) Big in Japan |
| | Kazama, who previously worked on Windows games, said she is thrilled to be working on Mac game products. | | | On Sunday, just a week before the annual Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft released the first in the series: the Japanese edition of the popular | | | "Most of the Macs in Japan are owned by individuals," she said. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,65027,00.html
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| | Big in Japan? |
| | The art of travel: I wanted to go to the Redskin Game in Japan, so I went. | | | I spent nearly 100,000¥ or 20,000NT or $700 US to fly to Osaka, stay two nights, eat and drink well, and see the game. | | | I stumble into a very scary bar which reminded me too much of a mob-boss heaquarters, so I drank my beer quickly and darted back to the capsule. |
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http://www.edeibel.com/site/japan.html
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| | Big in Japan |
| | After all, Ireland isn’t very big, so after three years racing in Japan, to have attracted the kind of following that he has in that country is very important. | | | Hakkinen used to be the most popular driver, but Senna is still very very popular - probably the most popular driver in Japan. | | | Ah, but so did Ayrton Senna, and he’s still immensely respected in Japan. |
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http://www.atlasf1.com/98/jpn/preview/fans.html
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| | In other news, apparently the latest Sports Illustrated has a big story about Frank and the Nationals -- but it got bumped off the cover by a story about one of SI's writers spending five days in the Toronto Blue Jays' camp as a player. | | | Meanwhile, Manager Frank Robinson is throwing a B team lineup out there today -- he says he wants to rest his regulars early in the spring before they start running their starting lineup out there every day later in camp. | | | The nice folks from TV Asahi wanted to know about how baseball will be received in D.C. I said it was going to be HUGE -- maybe even as huge as I am in Japan. |
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http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/nats_journal/2005/03/big_in_japan.html
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