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And don’t even think of getting married in silence, because you’d be ripping off John Cage.
Chiitan’s management claim a city rep in charge of happiness told them “permission wasn’t needed.”
After years of attracting visitors from all over Japan, this quirky display has finally moved on.
Let that be a lesson to anyone who dares play a CD in a place where it might be overheard by someone else.
After its crowdfunding target is smashed, writing begins on the story of how Japan stifled its own IT development in the name of combating file-sharing.
Japan’s copyright enforcers ask: how many words must a man write down, before he can be shaken down?
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