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The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association says that young Japanese women are committing "information theft. " Apparently, the women are reading fashion magazines in bookstores and when they see something of interest, instead of buying the magazines, they snap a picture of it with their mobile phone cameras. So bookstores are posting stern signs hoping to shame customers who so use their phone cameras.

But there are other electronic problems in Japan. Only this weekend, newspaper ads warned phone users to avoid walking and writing emails at the same time.

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