Akiba

I remember years ago there was an old man with a now gone shoebox sized store in Akiba.

Nick’s Nippon Notebook: A Taste of Mystery » Fanboy.com 2007

Known as the Electric Town, Akihabara (also referred to as Akiba) is the place to please the geek in me.

Hot-screensaver 2010

We heard interesting points of view from SE implementers such as Akiba, ScaleDB, InnoDB, PBXT, and Virident, as well as from the Sun / MySQL implementors.

Planet MySQL Bradley C. Kuszmaul 2009

He recently started a company that stages, for fees, otaku-themed events in and around "Akiba", as Akihabara is known to habitues.

threebillion.com 2008

The majority of the three volumes are a collection of stand-alone stories, with generally innocent people running afoul of nasty ghosts and Akiba coming to their rescue.

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The Akiba Matsuri festival fits into this only because it's the one thing in Niyodogawa pop. 6,868 - after nine deaths and one birth in December 2010 that hasn't yet changed.

In rural Japan, a modest bid to preserve tradition 2011

Mr. Akimoto says he chose to base the group in Akiba, as it is known for short, in order to tap into growing interest in escapist products like comics, anime films and videogames that have come to represent Japan's pop culture overseas.

Japan Goes Gaga Over a 92-Member Girl Group Andrew Joyce 2011

In the past 23 years, as Beshi turned from a town into a ghost town, the Akiba Matsuri has gradually widened the radius from which it allows participants, and this has corresponded with changes at the municipal level.

In rural Japan, a modest bid to preserve tradition 2011

The group takes the AKB part of its name from Akiba; "48" was added to convey the idea of a somewhat secret, prototype project in development, Mr. Akimoto says.

Japan Goes Gaga Over a 92-Member Girl Group Andrew Joyce 2011

The majority of the three volumes are a collection of stand-alone stories, with generally innocent people running afoul of nasty ghosts and Akiba coming to their rescue.

Audience development: Mail 2009