Asiajin covers Japanese and Asian technology, startups, and social media in English, along with occasional programming curiosities.
HN links it for coverage of Japanese startups and for a post on a quine relay across 11 programming languages.
Of course he made the right decision! The CEO is Harvard Business School educated, "fluent" in English [1], and has mandated that all company meetings shall be conducted in English (even in Japan) [2]. Out of touch you say? Nonsense!</sarcasm>
[1] The reality is far from this, of course.
[2]http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/05/21/english-please-rakuten-bans-japanese-as-corporate-language-from-internal-meetings/
On the other hand,
I think fair amount of Japanese will be satisfied with this, and even like Groupon more than before the incident. It looks like similar to apologies done by Japanese executives, though Mr. Mason did not do deep bow.
http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/01/17/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-apologies-japanese-customers-on-osechi-trouble/
Apparently these are called "ouroboros programs". http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with-11-programming-languages/ (which serves an empty page to me right now) used to have a period-11 cycle of programs. I wrote a period-3 program (http://www.stratigery.com/source.html#Ouroboros).
To put things in perspective, iPhones were 4.9% of all new phones for 2009 (http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/04/23/iphone-2009-takes-4-9-share-in-japan/)
His quine relay is impressive:
http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with-11-programming-languages/
Asiajin (http://asiajin.com/) is covering Japanese startups (among other stuff)