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http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com/hq/2007/09/mix...
「尊王攘夷」みたいね？
But Latins said: "Repetita iuvant".
could you please send me a Mixi invitation?
daidaisg@yahoo.com
thx in advance. ^o^
how come...
could you help me??
zandra-feig@uiowa.edu
I'd appreciate it! THANKS!
just remove the space between at sign
ty in advance ≧∇≦
my email iz: skittlez09@rocketmail.com
oki..thank u 0.o
azri_jack@hotmail.com
ty
cristalix@yahoo.com
Still, i live in Japan so no biggie for me.
http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/m...
This is just one more thing that Mixi's doing to alienate users. I'll be searching for alternatives to practice my Japanese.
I want to have a Mixi account but I don't have a Japanese cell phone number so it's impossible.
My email: hj63767565 @yahoo. com
Do let me know!
Looks like I'm gonna have to wait until I actually MOVE to Japan to join again. =3
EDIT: Well, since I'm already registered (with a fake birthdate, no less), seems like I'm safe...for now. =O
I applaud the fact that it makes mixi safer, however, I do beleive their could have been a better method of doing so,other than this.
=P
But I can kind of understand mixi's concern with misbehaving foreigners. I mean, everywhere where there's Japanese gathering, a bunch of rabid foreign anime-, manga-, game- or visual kei rock star fan(girl)s come crawling all over the place like cockroaches, harrassing good-looking Japanese people with their Japan-fangirl-ness and extremely annoying otaku-level Japanese language "skills" and even physically fighting over the right to talk to that divine Japanese being. I've been to Japan several times, as well as to anime- and J-Rock related events and it's the same everywhere. A Japanese person has to take alot of harrassment from foreign Japan-fanatics who think that Japan really is like their anime phantasy world (in which characters tend to hug strangers, but the real Japanese won't appreciate you clinging to them - nobody will).
And about signing up to practice your Japanese: has it ever occurred to you that not everyone wants to volunteer as a language tutor, listening to horrible, hardly understandable sentences and being expected to reply and to correct all errors? I wouldn't, that's for sure. I get lots of help requests over the internet on various things and like, NO? I have a life for chrissake! Sign up for language courses but leave me the fuck alone.
Sometimes it seems to me like with all the Japanese products such as anime, music, games, sushi etc. becoming accessible and affordable to the outside world, some people seem to think that they can "buy" or at least "claim" Japanese PEOPLE as well as their PRODUCTS. "ZOMG ur Japanese, u must be mah friend!"
Japan's xenophobia is a pain to me, too sometimes although I can adapt to their manners and speak their language instead of being an otaku and thinking that's enough to fit in. But hell, looking at my own country, Belgium, I can understand countries that try to exclude foreigners as much as possible.
do try to hug me, and I'm only part Japanese. I hate being touched so
much...
Sent from my phone
Sucks because as soon as I mention anywere that I like a few anime, i'm classified as that type of person....
Guess in short, I have respect for the country and the people, where most just obsses over it and think they can take it for themselves.
*sigh*
I really wanted to join mixi, I am studying to be an ESL teacher and it would have been great to meet some friends BEFORE I travel there. Guess I'll have to wait till I get there and meet friends the old fashion way - non-electronic ^^
(just letting you know!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/world/asia/18...
;-)
Don't laugh, it could be true...
www.lang-8.com
first learn the language in lang-8, its just the same journal writing thing as mixi and people are much nicer..
i love playing it at korean servers, updates every day ^_^
Lol alil maintenence i see. Good job Tofugu team =P
Have you finished you thesis? I certainly hope so.
Anyways, is it possible that i could get a mixi invitation from you?
thanks.
my email is kashin.jim(at)gmail(dot)com
I just received a Mixi invitation, but I don't have a Japanese cell phone account. I searched around and came across this blog.
Here is what I found about getting a Mixi account without having a Japanese cell phone.
http://mixiura.omegumi.com/
Does this work?
It seems you still might need to have a Japanese paid Interent provider account.
Can anybody comment on this please?
I want to join the Mixi network too.
If you get something to work, though, let us know!
I'm just curious, as I've never had an account but have known some people that do.
And I believe noisy depends on the person . . .
How do I sign up for this website? Haha, sorry I'm what you would call a tofugu n00b.
fZ ( Australia )
1. it doesnt matter whether you are a foreigner or not but if you have a keitai... any foreigner in japan can get a keitai (even though it might only be rented).
2. In other countries there are communities which try to validity true existence of a person etc. by this method... for ex. collegehumor.
Besides, if you want to improve your japanese, getting a nico-doga account, looking at ameblo blogs, reading the newspaper sites, or even (don't recommend this btw) tracking down japanese on facebook - are all valid alternatives - most of the stuff people write on mixi is crap anyway.
cycobella@gmail.com
Would i borrow your cell phone email address to access my mixi? I got invited but i dun have jp cell phone email:(
If you willing to help that's really sweet of you. Thanks
xoxo
Zoe
If you are interested in learning Japanese, might I recommend Lang-8.com instead? It is a Mixi-like site with cool language learning tools, a large base of Japanese users, and tons of people using it. Sorry for the ad, but I think it is a great alternative to Mixi.
http://www.tofugu.com/2008/05/14/the-best-way-t...
dhon@softbank.ne.jp
lang-8 is from the same author as this site? Looks interesting !
haven't actually tried this but i think it would work.
My address is dominiclmorris AT googlemail.com
I'm renting a phone while I'm out here, and it comes with an email address, so hopefuly this will work!
Thanks loads,
Dom
That's not very nice though...
I suppose I'll request an invite though and check out mixi.
I'm MidoriOkami7j AT gmail dot com
Thanks
Okami
georgefost@gmail.com
Thanks,
Ant
It would be greatly appreciated if you could send me an invite at my email sky.architect@gmail.com nya ^_^
Domo arigatou nya ^_^
If you have a Japanese Cell Phone Address but don't have access to its contents, would you still be able to sign up? Is the phone email address just used to show you have Japanese Cell or do they send anything to it?
If you could please send an invite to maruan1013(at)gmail.com I would really appriciate it. Thanks!
register it all for you, it will cut out a lot of steps. Then they can
just change the pass and email, and tell you what it is.
and i'm not even really a foreigner...I was born and raised there and i'm even half and I SPEAK it fluently. This is bunch of bull.
willxhunting at gmail.com
(Sorry tech talk is in this post)
I managed to get an account using a pay-as-you-go Japanese mobile phone when I was in Japan on holiday.
You get an email sent to your mobile phone and you have to access a URL in the email (from a mobile phone) to verify you have received it! My mobile couldn’t access the internet so I attempted to access the URL via Internet Explorer but it didn’t work.
I even tried to change the User-Agent: details in the HTTP request header using FireFox to attempt to spoof the request, but didn’t work. (I may have used the incorrect User-agent)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967
I forwarded the email it to another Japanese friend’s mobile and he accessed it to confirm and that worked OK.
pay-for email account that's hosted in Japan. It's lame-o.
As long I'm with a major provider like SoftBank or DoCoMo, it shouldn't matter whether I'm 海外, right?
edt at daikon.it
thank you very much!
FRIEND MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
could someone invite me ?
still_jono@hotmail.com
cheers
bit off a pain this whole mixi thing trying to contact sum old school mates
bredo_00@hotmail.com
(is it possible to change ur e-mail once you have become a member?)
- and yes, I do have a japanese cell phone
please, my email is iirrss@hotmail.com
thank you, hate that policy
involve finding a japanese person to give you their cell email /
paying for japan hosted mail.
pikasato@gmail.com
Try my best to figure it out...
Will try to go through the registration process later...
With low expectation.... (So bad I have to...)
Here is my normal e-mail:
susku@lycos.com
Looks like I won't be able to register as a mixi member if I don't have a Japanese mobile email address...
Anyway, I saw your profile...
But wow, long list of Hobbies...
chococoatedmarshmallow@ymail.com
im also using 2 CP's right now softbank and au
Thanks for the suggestion! We actually have been recommending lang-8 for some time. Koichi has even made an article for the lang-8 service itself (which I might add has been referenced many times). You can check it out by clicking the link below
http://www.tofugu.com/2008/05/14/the-best-way-t...
invite please!
torukun@hotmail.co.uk
本当にありがとうーっ
in fact, how do some americans get a ketai (or bypass) if they don't live in japan? hm...
Lots of Japanese sites are not open to foreigners. Or maybe "can see, but cannot say".
rpartyka56@msn.com or hotboi33@hotmail.com
Thanks alotttt....
Anyway, most of the Japanese people on that site signed up for mixi with their regular emails before this keitai thing was implemented, so just tell one of your friends to register your email address and their keitai address. Simple solutions.
Really, you can just ask their cell address, and have them confirm, that way you can make your own password and all that jazz.
It is probably thanks to stupid young american. european kids that thought it would be fun just to register without even speaking japanese. because oh so anime is so popular and everybody thinks japanese is cool ne??
and thanks to this people like me [japanese philology2nd year , have a lots of japanese friends there and classmates who registered before the restrictions] cant sign up.
thanks stupid people
I need a invitation first hope somebody can send it!
I'll comment on how it goes!
spiralpierce@gmail.com
Wow. what a douche some people can be. You think you are any better than stupid young american, european kids? Just because you are now in your 2nd year and because you have Japanese friends? Wow, you are soo cool and so much more entitled to enter a cost-free SNS than any other people... how unfair of those yound american and european kids to intentionally prevent you from coming on mixi.
Truth be told, yeah...deep inside of me... I am also annoyed by those young american and european kids, BUT I know, that IN FACT I have absolutely no right to do so, especially not to blame them for stuff like this.
I don't think that this was the reason AT all... there are so many Japanese idiots (no offense, but iditos exist everywhere) stalking, sending annoying messages to other members and so on... believe me they outweigh any amount of cool european or american kids.
Furthermore... why would mixi care about foreign european or american kids who will immediately leave the site because they can't fucking speak japanese.
The real reason is... scams, spam and that stuff... they want to reduce the amount of fake accounts.
@kiko: name some of these sites.... I wanna check that out :)
btw, there are american sites as well... it changed now, but collegehumor.com required an american cellphone to be able to post comments not too long ago.
In general, I think mixi.jp just doesn't consider people in foreign countries as target customers, that's all... if a big enough amount of people weote a petition and asked mixi to introduce some kidn of globally available identity verification... oh well... but I guess it's too expensive to implement.
Just to avoid misunderstanding: I am also annoyed by this move, as I annoyed with pandora.com's inavailability in europe or video playback restrictions on various sites for countries other than the US... it goes so much AGAINST what the internet stands for.
ex:
2569@docomo.ne.jp
****(any for numbers)
A aqueles que desejam um convite me mandem um email.
Eu gostaria de um convite sim!
O meu email e' o ceriduen@yahoo.com
Thanks!!
Cheza19@gmail.com
bricx8869@yahoo.com
I do indeed have a keitai and a softbank.ne.jp address, but I'm not currently in Japan, which means no service for my cell. Is there any way I could set my keitai address up to forward to a regular email account, or would even that require being able to access the network?
I was invited to join by a friend a month or so ago and haven't been able to get past the keitai thing yet. Sucks.
For example I found a great site where you can learn and speak with japanese people by mail and online ! It's lingueo : http://www.lingueo.com/
You can teach your mother tongue on Lingueo and earn money. You can learn Japanese with native speaker:-) And you can speak with many people!!
Let's learn languages, teach Japanese and meet friend all around the world !
Can you send me an invite to deathslinger91@gmail.com.
Much appreciated ^^
tim637@hotmail.com
Thanks a lot!
mail: benjovie@gmail.com
I would appreciate an invite as well!
Mahalo!
if anyone can invite me, that would be awesome
i have some fans from here, and i want to know what they are saying about me.
thank you!
if anyone can invite me, that would be awesome
i have some fans from here, and i want to know what they are saying about me.
thank you!
mail: zackiaustin@yahoo.com
Best way to do it is to find someone in Japan willing to let you use their
cell phone temporarily to create an account, if you can find someone.
thank you again! =D
I'm living in japan and have a phone but my phone is an old banger that cant access the internet.
So i have the link right there waiting to be clicked but i cant click it!
I just get ''cannot connect to network''
So not only does it require you to have a japanese phone in japan, but it requires you to have one capable of using the net (ok so 99% of them can but I've settled with a hand me down - beggars cant be choosers)
I wonder if smeone else can input the link from there phone?
http://m.mixi.jp/confirm.pl?c=fedbc07c8e23c4274...
if anyone is willing to try :p
I'm not just some gaikokujin looking to hound strangers for Japanese practice. I just want to find my friends. It took me so long to find someone who would invite me, and now...
This so defeats the purpose of social networking.
kukooinside@gmail.com , got softbank and also japanese.
yoroshiku!
My email is blizzard60893@hotmail.com
You can also send it to my American account from when I used to live in New York. I'll be able to receive from this account also
blizzard60893@aim.com
My email is joeh89@hotmail.com
or send to yohans89@gmail.com :) onegai shimasu
よろしく。
ありがとう。
do you still send invites to others, than i would be happy if you could also do it for me.
yodakksu@yahoo.co.jp
thanks in advance
jo
barring them from broadcasting shows to other audiences. That's the fault of
the studios, not to mention the people who want to make money off of ads
(gotta get targeted ads for other locations in the world). Hulu's actually
going to start broadcasting in England soon, though, as they've finally
gotten a deal to make it legally possible.
Mixi on the other hand... I haven't found any legal reason for them to do
this. If I've missed something then definitely someone let me know, though.
but in my opinion, legality doesn't mask the fact that many people outside of the US are unable to watch the videos on hulu.com. Certain music videos on youtube are also not accessible to people outside the US too. I think most US firms are smart enough to put this as a legal issue instead of a discriminatory issue. just my 2 cents worth
'outside-of-japan-ban' is cultural rather than legal. I know there was a lot
of talk at the time about how Mixi wanted to protect its Japanese users from
creepy gaijin (totally valid, by the way... definitely a lot of super creepy
asian chasers out there).
On the other hand, the studios blocking hulu from showing vids everywhere
else in the world need to suck it up and let hulu be open. I could rant
about them longer than I can rant about Mixi... and I live in the U.S.,
haha.
One day both of these sites will be open to people of all countries, and
we'll know we've attained world peace ;)
Please send me an invite as well!
Thanks,
im people new, nice to meet you!
lylyvn79@yahoo.co.jp
Can you please send me an invite too?
Thanks!
over there for an invite / to use their email!
There are many other social networking, like facebook or Orkut that do not have that kind of restriction.
Anyway call this racism is a little bit excessive. It's just a japan-only social network.
i have some friends in japan that change their cell phone address quite frequently. i wonder if we could use their old ones to register...?? ...highly doubtful....but maybe?
can you send me an invite, so i could try?
Please reply to post and Ill write back!
I would be happy if someone could send me an invite too... onegaishimasu ^_^
imai_ayu@yahoo.com
Yoroshiku ne
Thanks!
There are a lot of non-Japanese who go onto mixi and use it as a means to hit on the people and try to bring up their Japanese cool points.There are a lot of very creepy and very disgusting characters on Mixi that are foreign, and when you get higher rates of this sort of behavior, the Japanese are going to crack down. If you're going to use Mixi, use it as a means of social networking, not a way to fap off to HAWT JAPANESE BABES and e-stalk them. You have just as many annoying and utterly creepy anime fanboys that come on there and harass. It's not fair, but a lot of them have ruined it for the rest of us - and the person above me is a good example of Mixi is excluding foreigners.
Also consider - Japan is a very xenophobic country. This is no secret, nor should it be a surprise. It is a Japan-Only social network, which, quite simply, means that Westerners ARE NOT WANTED and are excluded. That's how life is.
my internet provider threw in an email account with the package (i actually logged on to it for the first time today) so as u can see from the address it might just do the trick?
I've been studying at Japanese school for several years, but then I returned home.. That was already 10 years ago. When I left Japan, there was no social networks, at least none of my friends used them.. Most of them didn't even have E-mails. I was trying to communicate via standard postal service, but that was expansive fore me (as I was just a kid) and took for ages to get a response.. My family changed the address several times, so finally, I just lost all contacts.
But I had very good friends in Japan. I was trying to find them so many times on the web... But you know, everything is so much closed! And they don't use facebook/Myspace almost at all!
I will probably have a chance to make a ketai conformation this week I hope, so could anyone please (PLEASE!!!) send me an invite? I need it sooo bad... I need it that much!!!
I will so much appreciate it... Here is my address:
klobnon@gmail.com
Thank you in advance..
Sorry, for being just a guest here..
Natalia.
I would love an invite to mixi, if your still offering them? Thank you! :)
theninha_@hotmail.com hum'
can u please send me an invite??
to himitsu.akuma@gmail.com
thx before..
haoren (at)) rocketmail.com
thanks!
My e-mail is ranzess2@gmail.com
Thanks. :) (y)
swimminginqualia at gmail dot com.
doomo!
Paul
Would love an invite if possible please.
paul.edmands@gmail.com
Thanks!!
Thanks in advance!
Woah!! I'm so glad I found this page!! I'll put it on my "speed dial" japanese section ^_^ I found a lot of interesting articles and youtube videos around.
Would you mind sending an invitation to me? abf_nakachan at yahoo.co.jp
Thanks a lot!!
E-mail is csosborn@live.com
Can i have an invite? just email it to bulld0g_pup@hotmail.com
thanks!!! :]
marquesconner@gmail.com
Could I get an invitation : anuwat_boy_lucky[AT]yahoo.co.jp
eg. if u have a japanese friend who is on mixi, and they send you an invite then u try and use there phone email......???????
This person says that they got rid of that rule.
Could I get an invite to try this out?
punkcustard@gmail.com
so in short, it matters what kind of email address you use. seems it asks for confirmation on free addresses...
Can you please send me an invite??
My e-mail: bolekcode@gmail.com
Thank you in advance stranger.
My email is rarisante@yahoo.com
Thank you so much.
linv37@gmail.com
Could i get an invite too??
michailova@hotmail.com
Is mixi still requiring the cell number? I can't believe this! I have been getting quite a few spam mails lately from people that want a "special friend", but ironically they are all Japanese. And Japanese people message me wanting to practice English. So this whole "Japanese cell phone" thing isn't going to accomplish anything. I hope they don't become like cyworld in Korean and make you put in your Japanese passport number or something.
have I a solution?
you bet ;)
(you don't have to read this paragraph) It doesn't *require* a keitai to join, having a keitai is optional, but you need a "secure" email address to join. These include most paid emails as well as keitai addresses. One day I thought, "well, if I can't use hotmail, or gmail, what other address could I try?" and my thoughts wondered to my college email address when it hit me, *THEIR* college email addresses. I have lots of close Japanese friends who are college students, so why not try ask one of them to invite themselves and let me change the email to mine. It worked :)
I don't know about all colleges, but it worked with a kansai gaidai (関西が国語大学) address
good luck
you can add 掛林 安生 on mixi if you like
I have a keitai and, of course, an e-mail address. (I don't have nearly as many awesome hats as you do, though.)
=====h t t p : / / w w w . b h s h o e . c o m====
jewerly $20
ugg boots$50
jordan shoes$32
handbag$35
h t t p : / / w w w . b h s h o e . c o m