Twitter is about to launch in Japan later this year according to this source. Also mentioned here. This seems to be a localized version. The first non-english one. Twitter.jp is already registered, but it doesn't look like it belongs to Twitter? Or does it? Do you know japanese? As the text on Twitter.jp is enclosed as images I can not run it through a translator. Here is a japanese news story. And here is the translated version. Update 080117: ..and here is the Twitter blog post covering...
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