Japan Internet Love-Story Bestseller with a Twist
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The hero is no Tom Hanks and the movie has yet to be made. But like the 1998 hit film "You've Got Mail," a new Japanese bestseller is an old-style romance for the Internet age -- though with a distinctly Japanese twist.
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The net brings sex-friendly stores to consumers, but nothing beats personal attention to your intimate shopping desires. Commentary by Regina Lynn. Plus: Japanese services recognize special needs  in Sex Drive Daily.
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Comment is free: AgnÃ¨s Poirier: In the country of romance, a website is making sex and adultery as easy as buying a croissant.
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Chinese publishers discover that online novel sales help move physical books off the shelves. And for a growing number of authors and readers, epic tales on the web are a thriving art form.
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"Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan" (Princeton Architectural Press, 241 pages. $24.95), by John Roderick: The extraordinary living room on the cover of John Roderick's new book of Japanese-American love brought back a precious memory of my best days as an Associated Press correspondent in Asia and sent me digging for a 24-year-old album that includes my own first impressions of Roderick's beautiful minka.
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The popular social networking juggernaut hopes to take Japan by storm, but it must contend with 'Mixi,' its 8-million-strong Japanese counterpart. By the Associated Press.
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This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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This is a fun little query:  I was googling for Futakoi (which I know nothing about but its more Anime).  Anyway.  The first two links are .torrent files!
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The online dating service Match.com has decided to look overseas for some new corporate love interests.
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Match.com expands to China and France and breaks into the social networking game. Plus: Books get sampled.... Data thieves can't pull it off.... and more.
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Young readers are engaged in the participatory media of text messages, instant messaging, YouTube and MySpace. So maybe Japan's success with cell-phone novels could work here, writes columnist Mike Elgan.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, Feb.
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This story can make you money -- if it's true.
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In most Internet categories, successful sites have led to copycats. But one growing Internet service has attracted a loyal following but, strangely, no rivals.
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SAITAMA, Japan -- C'mon, admit it. Everyone likes an athletic story with a Win-One-For-The-Gipper ending every now and then.
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Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)--Social networking service, a members-only online community, has rapidly been gaining popularity in Japan, fueling competition among major Internet service providers.