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"Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age. Under the "future school" project, 10 elementary schools will give all their under-12 pupils tablet PCs and fit their classrooms with interactive electronic blackboards starting as early as next month."

Interesting development in Japan with a pilot Tablet computer project.

Database that links films to historical events. Search by country or subject. Useful for finding movies to compare perspectives on some historical events. Eg. By clicking on Japan it shows films about Japan but some are made in Japan, some in US, some in China.

This is a Google-coloured full-screen dynamic display that shows the top searches from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US. You can view each of these regions individually by mousing over and clicking the menu in the bottom left.

A columnist in Japan has performed a worrying experiment in the busy Shibuya district to prove you can identify people purely by information posted on their Twitter feed.

"In Japan, the word otaku refers to people who have obsessive, minute interests-especially stuff like anime or videogames. It comes from a term for "someone else's house"-otaku live in their own, enclosed worlds. Or, at least, their lives follow patterns that are well outside the norm. Looking back, we were American otakus. "

Interesting to think about how Geek culture has changed over the past three decades.

What began as a move to document sensationalism in the media with regards to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has evolved to something a little bit more. Interesting look at media bias, media literacy and more.

"Fujitsu has developed an interactive technology that would bring the viewer the same opportunity for a second-screen experience, without intruding into their first screen experience. The new technology would add lights that are discernible to a phone camera but not to the human eye to a video stream, creating, essentially, a scannable light-based QR codes."

"The AR News app enables kids to use their smartphones to reveal more kid-friendly versions of articles in the Tokyo Shimbun."

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