Yamagata Shimbun on Oct. 30th reported, "It was revealed on Oct. 29th that Yamagata prefectural government decided on a plan to adopt OpenOffice.org as next PC office software for fiscal 2011 due to the fact that support for MS Office XP will end in July, 2011".
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MPAA Urges Japan to Adopt “Three-Strikes”
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Oct 21 2010
MPAA Urges Japan to Adopt “Three-Strikes”
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PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan - JPUG 10th Anniversary Conference
PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan is a worldwide conference for *free software* users and developers ;)
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Speak out against ACTA
"ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now..."
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Three Strikes, Three Countries: France, Japan and Sweden
"The music and movie industries have been making a concerted attempt to introduce a "three strikes" rule for Net users in many countries simultaneously — pressuring ISPs to throw their customers offline, possibly permanently, if the rightsholders report that they have been infringing..."
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Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
"The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards."
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