This year Japan's parliament is expected to relax the commercial paper rules.

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The paper helpfully explained the rules of such dramas.

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" Jonathan Donner, a researcher at Microsoft India who published a paper on "The Rules of Beeping, " said: "Beeping is simple: A person calls a mobile telephone number and then hangs up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call.

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