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Japan's online social scene isn't so social

TOKYO (AP) -- Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's.... ...full story at AP

from AP on Fri, Sep 26 2008

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