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BANDAI and Converse – “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” ALL STAR sneakers limited edition collaboration

By Stephen - [9/5/2013 - 11:07] - 0 - Announcement

Leading Japanese toy maker, BANDAI, just announced that they will release, in collaboration with Converse, “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” ALL STAR sneakers – “ALL STAR HI/JO” – in December. They will sta[...]

BANDAI and Converse – “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” ALL STAR sneakers limited edition collaboration

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Toshiba – Yangon branch office will be launched in Myanmar in May

By Stephen - [26/4/2013 - 05:01] - 0 - Announcement

Toshiba announced that they will establish a branch office (Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte., Ltd. Yangon Branch Office) in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar in May. With recent changes in Myanmar opening the country to democratization and o[...]

Toshiba – Yangon branch office will be launched in Myanmar in May

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Fujitsu acquires French cloud service provider, RunMyProcess

By Stephen - [8/4/2013 - 06:54] - 0 - Announcement

Today, Fujitsu announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire all shares of French cloud service provider RunMyProcess (RMP). With this acquisition, Fujitsu will add integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to its cloud offer[...]

Fujitsu acquires French cloud service provider, RunMyProcess

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Panasonic Announces Delisting from New York Stock Exchange

By Stephen - [2/4/2013 - 03:02] - 0 - Announcement

Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC) (TOKYO:6752) announced its delisting schedule from the New York Stock Exchange. The company has American Depository Shares (“ADS”) listed, which the company first listed in December 1971. The[...]

Panasonic Announces Delisting from New York Stock Exchange

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Sharp / Samsung – Samsung Electronics invests 10.4 billion JPY for 3.08% stake in Sharp Electronics

By Stephen - [6/3/2013 - 05:09] - 1 - Announcement

Big news in the interplay of Japanese and Korean electronics, Sharp Corporation today announced that it will receive a 10.4 billion Japanese Yen (USD111.4m) investment from Samsung Electronics Japan Co., Ltd. and will issues shares equ[...]

Sharp / Samsung – Samsung Electronics invests 10.4 billion JPY for 3.08% stake in Sharp Electronics

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Sorry for the lack of news last week! Have your complaints sent to Homeland Security (US)

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/10/2012 - 03:43] - 7 - Announcement

Dear readers, I am truly sorry if last week I was unable to publish any news on the site, and I would like to, once again, thanks Ike Leus for his help and effort to bring a few things online for us all. So what happened? Well Last wee[...]

Sorry for the lack of news last week! Have your complaints sent to Homeland Security (US)

Taking a few days off, see you next week!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [24/7/2012 - 08:47] - 1 - Announcement

Hi Gang! Just to tell you that I am taking a few day off, so I won’t have much time to update AkihabaraNews until Sunday/Monday… See you Next Week!

Taking a few days off, see you next week!

AkihabaraNews is yours! Get a chance to share what you like!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [10/3/2012 - 12:45] - 26 - Announcement

I would like to start a small experiment with you all! As you know I am having been writing since 2002 for AkihabaraNews and I have to admit that I would love to see some “change” here and bring something different for all of us and ma[...]

AkihabaraNews is yours! Get a chance to share what you like!

The SpacePig is back…

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [18/2/2012 - 09:43] - 9 - Announcement

One year ago a thought that I lost my dearest SpacePig Logo forever, but thanks to an incredible combination of luck and a generous friend, I succeed to get back what was, actually, always mine… Anyway, AkihabaraNews enigmatic Lo[...]

Shall we take a break?

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [15/8/2011 - 11:52] - 4 - Announcement

Dear Readers, it’s once again the time of the year when most Japanese companies are shutting down for the Bon Festival and there’s also a slowing down of the pace of news available for us to publish. Also, since last Januar[...]

And we are OFF today!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [18/7/2011 - 12:48] - 3 - Announcement None

Yep, here you are another of these Japanese public Holiday that we love to enjoy, so sorry folks, if today we won’t publish much news for you but hey! For once we will do our best in doing absolutely nothing and try to relax! Photo Credit : Benoa-San

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Computex 2011, here we come!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [30/5/2011 - 05:36] - 3 - Announcement

Arrived safely in Taipei and preparing to cover tomorrow’s Computex 2011! Just got two pre-paid SIM cards, one for voice and one for unlimited 3G Data for respectively 300 and 700 TW$ and now going to chill out around my hotel. If you [...]

Via Computex

[JOB Opening] Tibanne is hiring NOW!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [16/5/2011 - 08:32] - 1 - Announcement

Let’s start this week by offering you the possibility to find a job in Japan! Indeed Tibanne, a company very close to us since several years is now looking for to hire (very quickly) two staff: PHP Developer – Salary 300k+ Yen / [...]

Via Tibanne

Golden Week Mode ON…

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [2/5/2011 - 11:32] - 3 - Announcement

Hi everyone, just to let you know than since last Friday Japan is in “Golden Week” a more than week long national Hiatus, where most companies are taking a break, or a least stop releasing new announcement. Everything should be back to[...]

[Earthquake – Fukushima] Leaving Tokyo Today… See you on Thursday in France

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [16/3/2011 - 11:51] - 44 - Announcement

Well it seems that I could book an earlier direct flight tonight ant will land in Paris the seventeen morning at 5AM at CDG… Not sure if you’ve heard, but there has been another explosion at Fukushima, with white smoke arou[...]

[Earthquake – Fukushima] Leaving Tokyo Today… See you on Thursday in France

[Earthquake – Fukushima] We are still alive but really wonder what will happen tomorrow

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [15/3/2011 - 09:45] - 40 - Announcement

Hi everyone, just trying to give you a little update on what’s going on here in Japan, on Akihabara News and what will come next on the website. First of all, I am sure that you are all aware of what’s going on in Japan and what happen[...]

[Earthquake – Fukushima] We are still alive but really wonder what will happen tomorrow

[Earthquake – Fukushima] From the bottom of our heart thank you for all your messages, but things are not over yet!

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [12/3/2011 - 01:14] - 39 - Announcement

Dear friends, thank you very much for all your supportive messages, emails and even phone calls. Here in Tokyo, barely 24h after a massive earthquake hit the north of Japan, everything seems to be back to normal. Actually, it seems to [...]

[Earthquake – Fukushima] From the bottom of our heart thank you for all your messages, but things are not over yet!

[Earthquake – Fukushima] WOW, what an Amazing earthquake, hope you guys are fine?

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [11/3/2011 - 03:42] - 41 - Announcement

5.8, this what we had apparently had in Tokyo… Good lord it was scary… I have been living in Japan since 10 years but never see that in my entire stay here… Holy sh*t ! Update, Sorry guys I may not be able to post a l[...]

[Earthquake – Fukushima] WOW, what an Amazing earthquake, hope you guys are fine?

We are moving our comments to DISQUS this weekend, so be ready !

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [16/2/2011 - 10:18] - 6 - Announcement

Just a little head up on the coming change we will do on AkihabaraNews comments system, this Weekend, we will move all our comments from WordPress Traditional system to Disqus so get ready! Disqus is the leading Comment platform used b[...]