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Diamon_hearted — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:08:07 -0000

My email is ............. diamon_hearted @yahoo.com

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Diamon_hearted — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:06:35 -0000

I need an invite .... i live in chiba plzzzzzzzz

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DemonnPrincess — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:21:49 -0000

I know this is old, but Japan doesn't hate foreigners like everyone thinks! Granted, they "fear" us because they hear horror stories and have stereotypes, just like we hear them about them and do to them as well. I know that they had a VERY good reason for doing it this way. Maybe it helps keep track of users better. Maybe if Americans got a phone they could. For example, I have a mixi. I signed with a phone address, and they gave options to enter my residence. Now, if the intention was to "shut out" Americans, why did they have "在外" as an option, which means "Overseas"? and when I clicked it, they gave me "アメリカ合衆国" which means "The United States of America" Maybe they forgot...yeah right. They like us. They hear stuff and sometimes they don't like the way we do things here in America but they like us. And it's the same with us: Sometimes they do things we don't particularly approve of, but we like them because it's two different cultures and usually once we get eachother's perspective on things, we feel better. :3

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lance — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:37:26 -0000

i need invite mixi email is falkowski71@msn.com

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Cinatiffrine — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:06:08 -0000

i am a girl from a small island from the northern mariana islands and i know a little japanese but i need an invite but it's okay if u dnt.

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Ti — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:33:36 -0000

hiya can you send me an invite please? thanks in advance^^ tianamoua@yahoo.com

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Confikama — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:06:20 -0000

hi dear
can you conform https://mixi.jp/register.pl...

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Peter — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:55 -0000

Just tried signing up, currently on a year abroad in Japan so I figured I'd try using mixi during that time. Unfortunately, while I have a phone, I can't use the internet on a prepaid model!
If anyone would be so kind as to send an invite to peter_j_grant @ yahoo.co.uk I would really appreciate it!

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Anonymous — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:15:56 -0000

Not sure if anyone still is looking to get into Mixi.jp, but I just got an account with an edu email and it was just fine ... didn't have to use a Japanese mobile number. I'm guess that if an edu has been used to much, then they'll look into that and then remove it from being approved.

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koichi — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:06:07 -0000

hey there, no more invites are needed to attempt to join mixi, though you will need a japanese cell phone email address (see big bolded link at the bottom of article for more info)

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Aphons01 — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:12:07 -0000

Ouuu can you invite me
Aphons01@gmail.com

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Klite1987 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:32:04 -0000

hi! i'm from italy and i love japan very much
i'd really appreciate if someone having a japan mobile phone help me to register to mixi i made an account but i need to confirm mobile mail.

Fabio

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koichi — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:03:31 -0000

If you're in Japan you could get a friend to receive the keitai email -
that's the only really good way to make it work, I think :(

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Marthin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:29:00 -0000

Hi! I live in Kyoto and have so far used Facebook as the source to chat with my japanese friends except the keitai denwa. But a lot of people just uses Mixi here so I'm trying to get an Mixi account but I can't get past the mobile registration part since I have a pre-paid phone from Softbank. Do you know how to solve that problem ? Sounds weird that you need to have a phone with a subsrcription to join Mixi...thx a lot!

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truth — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:54:49 -0000

Someone said:
"I think this decision had more to do with preventing spamming than preventing foreigners from joining. "

I don't think so, because all other social network people from all the world can JOIN (even if there's the spam) so why we can't do the same with mixi?

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koichi — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:48:36 -0000

Pretty sure that's one of the only good ways to find someone, you're in
luck! :)

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ichiban — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:02:11 -0000

I am wondering something,,, is it possible to find someone on mixi when you already know his/her keitai address?

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Mike — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:18:23 -0000

I think this decision had more to do with preventing spamming than preventing foreigners from joining.

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Jac2294 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:03:46 -0000

hi wanna tell you that im american but the reason i want a mixi is not because i wanna be japanese!! ITS because i know people who live in japan and i left them sooo long ago ... for years ive been trying to find a way to contact them.

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T_sin999 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:02:08 -0000

Hi!
the reason i came to this forum was actually mixi related!
isn't just possible to protest using internet acusing the social network of discrimination and try to make them change this? all social networks i know can be used by anyone anywhere!! mixi has the luinguistic barrier, wich we'll be by itself enough to restrain access to foreigners!!! so, why create this rule? even if this has to do with a protocol with cell companies it's just not fair!! besides, the internet shouldn't be restrained by countries and national rules and laws!!!!
after all mixi is not chinese..-. :(

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koichi — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:54:38 -0000

That makes sense, actually

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Lewie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:31:00 -0000

may i ask you something? when i met my japanese friends this summer, they talked about mixi and that you can only use every cellphone mail adresse once...and the reason, mixi is doing this is to prevent ,that people own several accounts....probably thats just an stupid rumor...

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Lewie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:04:41 -0000

thank you, you´re so right!
by the way, it´s still possible to get an account as a foreigner! i did last month. if you have friends in japan, just ask them to registrate you with their keitai mail adress.

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koichi — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:44:16 -0000

yep, that should work

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Ayase — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:31:13 -0000

Ano Koichi san, I moved up to the states a few years back and originally i was from kyoto. I don't have a ketta address or phone that works anymore and one of my friends asked me to join mixi a few months back but the thing is even if you register it still needs a kettai address but I'm not entirely sure on this. it's only a guess but if someone has a kettai address and you use theirs to confirm your account, will it work? or fail?