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Hi, Inoshiro... yes, I'm sure - take a look at this if you don't believe me ;)
(Obviously, that peak didn't last very long, but they did hit it - and after a 3:1 stock split, to boot!)

Yahoo has seen the light and has stopped their auction services in every country except America. Where do the send the traffic? eBay of course.

Yahoo Japan still runs auctions at http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/.

Ironically, eBay has shut its doors in Japan. They link people to an auction site called http://www.bidders.co.jp.

What are you talking about?

Only one of these are "shallow" copies. That's if, by shallow copies, you mean not identical except for the translation and enchanced Japanese content (I can't read Japanese, but I think I can assume that a Japanese Amazon will carry japanese books, a Japanese Yahoo Japanese sites, a Japanese Google Japanese translations).

I suppose if you mean shallow as in feeling, well, I don't get it. Websites don't exactly have feelings -- especially corporate websites...

For those of you who don't read Japanese, I give you a bit more info on this. Based upon what I read here (Yahoo News Japan), it is a Pocket PC 2002 (which is no surprise, as NEC makes one of these in Japan). They are also hoping to make versions for other languages as well. What's written there seems the original Japanese of the post in Digitimes. And here is the press release from NEC.
Based upon what it says on NEC's press release, it works via voice recognition, not via phone as somebody suggested. It is tuned to understand standard American English (whatever that means) and standard Japanese (which is well defined). The recognition is based upon common words used for tourists, so if you try to translate technical terms, it probably wont' understand you at all. Just like many voice recognition, the way how you speak will determine the accuracy of voice recognition (with a thick accent, you won't go anywhere).
They will have special booth set up for this for evaluation of the technology in Narita Airport in late June.
It probably works via voice recognition and translation engine. Voice recognition is something that has been being developed everywhere as you know. English-Japanese translation engine is something that Japanese has been working on for a number of years, as Japanese is very different from any other language, and pretty much useless outside of Japan, as nobody else speaks Japanese.
Based upon my experience with these translation engines I have seen in Japan, they work very poorly. You will get most ideas across, but the sentences are very unnatural at best, often incomprehensive. Of course, these are often a lot better than English written by most Japanese. I personally think it is nearly impossible to make really good English-Japanese bi-directional translation engine, as Japanese grammers are so erratic and loose.
Of course, these devices/softwares probably are better than nothing if you know absolutely nothing about the language...

Some guy's selling an E10000 on Yahoo Japan's auction site, starting at 1,000,000 yen (about $8000). Unfortunately, he doesn't ship internationally ;)

Ok, sorry for the original light post.

I got the 7.2% infected stat from
Yahoo! Japan headlines, which was quoting ZDNet, which was quoting Panda Software, an anti-virus removal service company.

And I got this link ftp://ftp.kaspersky.ru/utils/clrav.com from Download.com, which requires you to register to use it's auto-download service. So I'm trusting download.com to be referring me a "safe" program.

And I guess I'll use the term viruses instead of virii from now on :)

At Yahoo Japan with Linux and the much sought - after PHKL feature!!!

All the best devices seem to come out of Japan! Here's a link on www.yahoo.co.jp which shows a kewl device which actually allows you to link between the watch and your PC (Windows support only, unfortunately). The text is in Japanese but there are plenty of pictures.

To take a less emotive (and less badly informed) example, the age of consent in Japan is 14. Let's say Yahoo! Japan splashes some raunchy pictures of a 14 year old Japanese celebrity that push but don't break the boundaries of Japanese law.

Explain why it would be right for a US judge to tell Yahoo! Japan to remove the images, simply because they might be viewed by US viewers.

For bonus marks, go on to explain why this wouldn't make it right for (e.g.) an Afghan court to tell Yahoo! US to remove pictures of Hilary Clinton, because she's not wearing a veil.

Here's the thing. The onus is on the government of the country of the viewer/purchaser to police their own citizen's actions. Trying to cut the "evil" off at its source is simply abrogating responsibility and exporting morality.

France can tell her own citizens not to buy Nazi items, just as they can tell them not to use Anglicised words (and they do). They can tell any Yahoo! outfit operating in France to stop selling anything they like. But they have no more right to tell the US arm of Yahoo! to stop selling anything than the Taliban has to tell France to stop allowing women to go around unveilled just because Afhgan nationals might find pictures of them online.

See how easy it is to use overblown, over emotive arguments to make any point? Won't someone think of the children! will get you modded up for making a point that anybody can understand, but if you make decisions based on the worst that might happen somewhere, then you'll end up living in a pretty stale little global village.

Although the Casio Crusoe laptop is new here, they have had it in Japan for a while. Hell - they even have a Hello Kitty version.

Speaking of multilingual cybersquatting.... Check out Yahoo! Japan's auction site for domain names. You too can have kitty-chan.com (in kana/eucjp: ¥¥Æ¥£¼Áãó.com) for a mere 10 million yen!
*sigh*

-Chris

what about yahoo.co.jp? I found a page linking to a site hosting illegal CSS info and DVD linux drivers from Yahoo. (http://search.yahoo.co.jp/bin/search?p=d ecss) Does this mean that search engines are all illegal in Japan?