Japanese Acts Woo U.S. Through Anime
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's not unusual for adoring  Japanese pop fans to sing along with their idols during a  concert. But it's not often that an American audience does that  -- and gets all the Japanese words right.
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A Japanese company has come up with a way of turning flowers into loudspeakers.
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How Internet jokes helped a Japanese ad mascot make it to American malls.
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Tom Cruise is the first foreign star to be honoured in Tokyo's walk of fame, while Godzilla will get a star in Hollywood.
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Across the country, Americans are giving in familiar ways, but with plenty of new twists.
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Ichiro Suzukiâs attempt to break George Sislerâs season hits record is not only big for baseball, but also for Japanese players all over the world.
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Perhaps too flamboyant or eccentric for  more strait-laced American audiences, U.S. bands like Scissor  Sisters have gone to Britain to make it big.
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Just two weeks ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was imitating Elvis during a visit to the United States.
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Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile
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Two chefs from Japan are attracting discriminating diners to their restaurants in the most chic part of Paris - and serving them French cuisine.
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AOL&#8217;s Advertising.com, the largest third-party display advertising network in the United States, has reached a joint venture agreement with Mitsui &#038; Co., Ltd.  to serve the Japanese online advertising market.  Under the title of Advertising.com Japan, the venture will operate the leading performance-based online advertising network in Japan, the world&#8217;s second largest market. The [...]
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The me-first attitude that makes the social networking site so successful in the United States may not play well in Japan, a more socially integrated society. By the Associated Press.
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Feeling betrayed by the North Korea talks, Tokyo wants the U.S. -- and a visiting Dick Cheney -- to show some love
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The United States and Japan may be  on opposite sides of the whaling debate but they have a common aim -- gaining support for whale hunting by their indigenous and coastal communities.
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While their obsession with comics and computers verges on the fanatic, Japan's geeky hobbyists form a growing 2.6-billion-dollar market that should no longer be ignored, according to a private think tank.
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Kabuki has always been theater for the rowdy masses, as audiences can discover when Heisei Nakamura-za opens a weeklong engagement at the Lincoln Center Festival.
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In Japan, that is. The game player's surprising pricing there may indicate what the U.S. market can expect.