The Japanese e-commerce giant launched its e-commerce service in Malaysia on November 1, 2012.
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Apart from fending off interlopers from the Internet, Japanese publishers see e-books as a way of slashing the costs of production and distribution, which currently account for more than 75% of the total.
It got money from Toppan, the Japanese printing company, which signed on with E Ink to help develop color displays.
There is the classic definition from Michael Kinsley 30 years ago describing a gaffe as when a politician says something true that he really believes, but is offensive to certain voter groups, i.e. a Democratic politician in the 1980s saying that Japanese cars were better than American cars.
Whisky (the preferred spelling in Japan, as in Scotland, is without an "e") is the distillate that most defines upper-end Japanese bars and has done much to shape it.
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The Japanese company on Thursday also said it would launch its e-book reader in Japan by the end of this year and set up an e-book content distribution business with three local companies to solve previous problems with distribution.
Even at ages 70-74, 30.5% of Japanese men are still employed, vs. 5.4% in the E.
Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints, translates as an "image of the floating world, " and the scent does seem to evoke an image for me of irises floating in a secluded lake.
One report cites a company spokeswoman saying the site wants to take advantage of its Japan connections to transform itself into an e-commerce platform with a distinctly Japanese flavor, including Japanese brand products and a more Japanese look and feel.
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