China's largest retail website, Taobao, and Yahoo! Japan launched a joint platform Tuesday that allows consumers to buy products both from China and Japan.

1日，中国最大网络零售平台淘宝网和雅虎日本启动了网购互联平台，中日两国消费者将可在该平台上网购产自两国的商品。

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Recently, I read an article about platform shoes, which are popular in Japan now.

最近，我读到一篇有关“恨天高”的文章。“恨天高”现在在日本很流行。

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The newly ruling Democratic Party of Japan ran in part on a platform that advocated a more assertive policy toward the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Protests will be especially vehement in Okinawa, an island prefecture that serves with others areas of Japan as a platform for U.S. military bases and operations in Asia.

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With this rapidly growing user number in mind, NHN Japan is introducing a new platform service, 'LINE Channel', which aims to expand the range of services on offer, using LINE as its foundation.

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Dr. Hazlett points out that the ultimate sharing forum, the mobile Web (which enabled Web surfing from cellphones), had its first big success in Japan, on a private platform owned by NTT DoCoMo.

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