Tag Archives: Japan

Domino’s Pizza. On the moon.

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Domino’s Japan is boldly going where no fast food chain has gone before: the moon. That’s the premise, anyway, of a new site the chain has introduced, featuring a video of the chain’s Japan President and CEO Scott K. Oelkers … Continue reading →

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Sega brings gaming to Toylet. For real.

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Some people say wasting time on video games is a way to flush your life down the toilet. In Japan, those people would be right. Sega has just broken the seal on a new style of gaming that brings the … Continue reading →

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iPhone: NOT lost in translation

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

The iPhone’s popularity in Japan is cracking open an industry long thought inaccessible to outsiders. For years, the typical Japanese cell phone — built to operate on a network hardly used anywhere else in the world — has been stuffed … Continue reading →

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Japanese playing a new video game: catch-up

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

Twenty years ago, the Japanese made the best video games (think Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario Brothers). The West just didn’t get it. Warp ahead 20 years, though, and much of Japan’s game industry is in a rut. Sonic the … Continue reading →

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