by isaokato | Mar 25, 2012 | Post
by flowcomm The Great Bubble of the 80s marked the death of Japan as the place of the rising son. More than twenty years have passed, and my home country has been back on track with full-speed production…of zombies: dead companies...
by isaokato | Mar 24, 2012 | Post
by tochis This blog post (Japanese) tells us that one of Japan’s largest toy companies, Bandai-Namco (they have the cult classic Ghost in the Shell), is retreating from retailing anime products in the U.S. market, due to...
by isaokato | Mar 23, 2012 | Post
by Pink Sherbet Photography I helped a friend of mine connect her iPad to a wireless router. She needed to enter the DSL password, which was supposed to be jotted down in a note she couldn’t find. After two hours of search, she gave up and called the network...
by isaokato | Mar 22, 2012 | Post
by splityarn Here is a collection of whinings from book publishers feeling threatened by Amazon. Low prices, disappearing retailers, brain-drain…in a word, they are facing death. What happened to the music industry has been occurring in the publishing...
by isaokato | Mar 21, 2012 | Post
by Denis Collette…!!! Well, isaokato.com stays but the underlying platform has changed. The previous version was based on Typepad and the new version is based on Wordpress, the most robust blogging platform in the market (and it’s free). In the eyes of...
by isaokato | Mar 20, 2012 | Post
by darwin.wins I have been using Amazon Kindle for a few years, and it has completely removed my need/desire/wish for paper books. I am a bookworm, and it was surprising that I could ditch a 30+ year-old habit in mere several months. But...
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