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Bigger Than Facebook! Foreign Sites That Outshine the Web’s U.S. Stars

How Robotics Master Masahiro Mori Dreamed Up the 'Uncanny Valley'

Quake-Ready Japan: A History of Seismic Science

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Gallery: Japan's Hottest Celebrity Bloggers

Gallery: Surreal to Sublime, Wired.com Readers' Geekiest ASCII Art

Art and ASCII: The Stories Behind All Those Brackets, Slashes, and Carets

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A Brief Tour of the Japanese Web

Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet

Review: Conair Body Benefits Heated Massaging Neck Rest NM8

Inside the Bizarre World of Japanese Pickup Schools

Students of the Pickup School for Geeks

Review: Tannoy i30 iPod Speaker System

Rights Watchman Uses Satellite Photography to Monitor Abuse in Crisis Zones

Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: OMG! MMORPG on My Cellphone!

I Was a Neuroscience Guinea Pig: How Scientists Scrambled My Brain