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  • I luv your deep interest in keitai-world and you seems to handle japanese language so deeply .. urayamashiii

    Strange ears cause a stir in Japanese mobile forums Jan Kuczynski 2007

  • The new type of storytelling is called "keitai"--cellphone novels.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • The new type of storytelling is called "keitai"--cellphone novels.

    Cellphone Novels 2010

  • The fact that 90% of music downloads in Japan are carried out on cell phones rather than PCs is a measure of the sophistication of the country's "keitai"--or mobile phone--culture.

    Stringer's Ericsson JV To Offer Walkman Cell In Japan 2006

  • The fact that 90% of music downloads in Japan are carried out on cell phones rather than PCs is a measure of the sophistication of the country's "keitai"--or mobile phone--culture.

    Faces Of The Week: May 22-26, 2006 Forbes Faces Of The Week: May 22-26, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

  • Imashell #217: Funny thing: in one of the episodes of Detective Conan, Conan realizes something is up when even a famous romance novelist's recent books involve missed opportunities that could have been avoided by use of cellphones and cellphones, aka keitai, are an even bigger deal over there than over here.

    Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan 2010

  • In Asia, it's not the boring professionals driving the newest innovations in the mobile market but what the Japanese call keitai-crazy kids.

    YOUR NEXT COMPUTER 2007

  • The new literary genre is called keitai - cellphone - novels.

    HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

  • And last year, 15-year-old "Bunny" became one of Japan's top authors of a genre called keitai -- cellphone -- novels.

    News On Japan Los Angeles Times 2010

  • Four of the five best-selling novels in Japan in 2007 belonged to an entirely new literary form called keitai shosetsu: novels written, and read, on cell phones.

    Gus Van Horn 2009

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  • Cell phone in Japan. Personally, I prefer this term to the English phrase.

    November 10, 2007