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A new Internet shopping mall is opening in China next month that will take payments in the widely used China UnionPay Co cards for Japanese products. “Buy-J.com” will sell gadgets, clothing and cosmetics from about 100 Japanese companies, aiming for 4 billion yen in sales the first year.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to ban the sale of cold medicine and most of other nonprescription drugs over the Internet under a law revision to come into force in June next year.

The movers and shakers at Japan's main online social networking site, Mixi, have hooked up with ramen-maker Acecook to create designer ramens worthy of any World Of Warcraft all-nighter.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has announced a plan to ban online sales of non-prescription drugs by June 2009. In Japan, the online drug market had overall annual sales of 111 billion yen (1 billion USD) as of 2006.

On-line non-prescription drugs often are much cheaper than those available through traditional retail channels.

The December issue of Jitsuwa Taiho has an unattributed article titled “Japanese are infuriated at sex in Japan as seen by foreigners!”

thats going to be a mammoth task,stop people from spreading gossip and malicious rumour mongering? its been going on since we climbed down from the trees..you would think that lot would have something better to worry about like those poor starving street kids in North Korea.

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What sets Zozo apart from other shopping portals is that it’s a) designed like a virtual town, b) limited to fashion items, c) geared toward a young audience and d) of gigantic proportions. Instead of going to places such as Harajuku or Shibuya, Japanese shopaholics just choose one of the thousands of items from hundreds of fashion brands Zozo houses in different “buildings” and “stores”: United Arrows, Diesel, Hysteric Glamour, nanouniverse… you name it.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK today announced the launch of Japan International Broadcasting Inc. (JIBtv), a company that will transmit 24-hour programming in English via the Internet and satellite.

A Tokyo man who posted a message on an online bulletin board threatening to kill people at the fictitious "Ueno Station on the Saikyo Line" (the Saikyo Line does not pass through Ueno) was surprised when police showed up to arrest him. "I didn't think threatening to attack a railway station that doesn't exist would constitute a crime," he was quoted as telling investigators.