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		bitwize on Oct 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country... Japan is life support for brands thought long dead in the 90s. Excite still has a presence there and, until recently, so did InfoSeek.

exo_duz on Oct 8, 2013 [–]

I think it's more that the country is so self sustaining that it does not feel it requires to change. As well as the people being quite inflexible.

Which is why Japan is now behind Korea in electronics.

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