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  Japan’s Web News Week 23

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  This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Nintendo Expresses Anger On Nikkei’s Scoop Around Coming Wii U, “Full Of Mistakes And Complete Conjecture” Yahoo! Search Blog Forecast The Coming 4th Election Of… AKB48 DeNA Brings Mobage To Chinese RenRen Smartphone Users Naver LINE Passes 40 Million

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  • 2012/06/11 02:18

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  Perfume’s Open Dance Data Inspiring CG Creators

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  In April, we reported that Japanese girls techno unit Perfume opened the motion data of their dance on Github. Fans’ creatives seem to be arriving to the official site. Daihei Shibata lets the doll Perfume dance on his desktop. Pretty inpressive CG work. The official site shows other 4 great videos using the same motion data, too. via Kengo’s Google+

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  • 2012/06/04 21:20
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  Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global

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  We have covered the Japanese social game industry to some extent on Asiajin over the last years, and I myself do so in more detail on my personal site. In recent months, the two biggest companies in this space, DeNA and GREE, have invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in bringing the concept of mobile social games outside their home market, hoping to replicate the huge success they have seen

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  • 2012/03/27 15:15
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  Japanese Tweets Likely Makes Another World Record On Twitter

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  As expected, the opening of year 2012 on Japanese Twitter was a full stream of new year’s greetings. After entering into 2012, Twitter, both site and API, went down by heavy load. According @dfnt, on unofficial Twitter traffic counting service Tweet Counter showed that the peak tweets at the midnight January 1, 2012 in Japan Standard Time was 16,197 tweets per second. The same Tweet Counter counte

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  • 2012/01/01 03:56
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  AKB48 Now On Google+ – Google’s Marketing Challenge

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  Japan’s popular girls idol corps AKB48 announces with Google that all of its members opened Google+ page today December 8. Google Japan cooperates to set up a special page you can browse all, or by AKB48 and its sister-groups. [Update] Nikkei reports [J] that this is a collaboration project between AKB48 and U.S. Google. According to it, the contents will be translated into 5 languages, English, C

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  • 2011/12/08 14:14

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  Leg Hair Font

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  Tama Art University 20 yo female student Mayuko made this great alphabet font by human leg hair. The font used on an ad-board in real[Update] the ad board is a “sample” by Mayuko. via ITMedia [J]

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  • 2011/10/15 21:09

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  Mapion Offer’s 1 Year Limited Term Overseas Play Location Game “World Magical Adventure”

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  Mapion [J] under sponsoring by NTT Docomo [J] has announced the release of the location based game “Sekai Magical Daiboken” [J] (World Magical Adventure), which allows Docomo users to play overseas, for a one year fixed term starting September 8th (Thursday). Currently Mapion offers the cell phone stamp library game “Keitai Kuni Tori Kassen” (Cell Phone Country Taking Battle) which uses location i

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  • 2011/09/20 14:11

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  Amazon Japan And Yodobashi Camera Heat Up On The Release Day Delivery

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  We just reported that electronic chain-store Yodobashi Camera began the same day delivery around Tokyo on weekend. I saw it as the race for better service level against its competitors, including Amazon Japan. On September 5, Amazon Japan started a new delivery option “Hatsubaibi Todoke”(= deliver on the release day) initially with selected games, Gamespot Japan reported [J]. Amazon Japan’s top pa

  • テクノロジー
  • 2011/09/06 23:49

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  Japanese-Style Search-By-Blabla Ads Fail Sometime

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  This is a follow-up post for my monthly column on The Japan Times, Why do Japanese advertisers suggest Internet-search keywords?. There I explained why many of paper/TV ads in Japan are asking people to search by keywords, instead of typing URLs. Soon after the column was published, I got a question from a reader if I can name a real example the advertiser failed on the search-keyword method, i.e.

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  • 2011/08/18 20:45

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  Blackboard Wars

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  Japanese high school students made stop-motion animations with blackboard, chalks and all school things for school festival. The first one uses over 2,500 photos, the second one over 3,000. According to the poster’s comment, free tools like PictBea­r [J] and NicoVisualEffects [J] are used. via @ryohgo_narita

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  • 2011/07/28 13:25

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  Twitter Finally Supports Japanese Hashtag

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  Official Japanese Twitter blog announced [J] today that Twitter is now capable of Japanese character hashtags. Now when you use # or its Japanese version ＃ followed by Japanese keywords on your tweet, that will be automatically linked on Twitter. As Japanese is not a language separated by spaces, it is a bit tricky to direct which part is hashtag or not. You need to insert extra spaces before and

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  • 2011/07/13 12:34

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  Facebook Spot Information Is Jacked By A Giant Japanese Coupon Business Player

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  Facebook Spot Information is becoming popular in Japan after Facebook had started Check-in Coupon (Check-in Deals) in Japan. Facebook Japan Holds An New Coupon Service Launch Event In Shibuya The problem arouse when Recruit[E], Japan’s largest coupon business player, registered spot information of restaurants on behalf of restaurant owners without enough notification. Hitoshi Nakamura(twitter id:

  • テクノロジー
  • 2011/07/08 18:23

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  Spherical Joint Stocking Makes You More Figures-Alike

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  “Kyutai Kansetsu Sutokkingu”(Spherical Joint Stocking) is a coterie stocking sold at Bungaku Furima(=literature flea-market), a dojinshi sale dedicated for literature-related things only, by circle Ojosama Gakkou Shojo Bu(preppie school girls section). The stocking has globe joint painted on knees, to make your leg like real figure. The stockings, 2,000 yen(US$25) seems sold out on their online sh

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  • 2011/07/08 01:23

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  Lady Gaga Shows Up On A Long-Running Japanese Talkshow

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  Tetsuko no Heya, a long-running TV talk show hosted by a popular actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who is also known as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is announced to take a session with Lady Gaga. Tetsuko no Heya began in 1976 and has been running over 9,000 times. (Wikipedia Japanese) Gaga side seemed to research the host Kuroyanagi is popular with her “Onion” hairstyle, and wore an onion-shaped dress

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  • 2011/07/05 10:28

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  Ultra High-speed Japanese Typing On iPhone

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  It is known that Japanese high school girls type Japanese so fast on feature phone 10 digits key, but this person on iPhone could be faster than they. On Japanese flick input training app, he writes up 45 letters/5 phrases in 6.99 seconds, which is 386 letters per minute. [Update] Another high-speed iPhone Japanese type video. This person types a real message. (Thanks @StingRaySlapper ) Japanese i

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  • 2011/06/10 20:31

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  Docomo Opens Official Facebook Page

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  Docomo, Japan’s No.1 cellphone carrier, has opened an official Facebook page today. “New Smartphone Review” page introduces their latest 9 smartphones and asked users to comment. “Message Card” corner lets you send a Docomodake message card to your Facebook friends. Docomodake is a mashroom character of Docomo. No.2 KDDI au announced its alliance with Facebook on May 17th. KDDI au has an official

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  • 2011/06/04 13:31
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  CSS-Only (=No Flash/Javascript) Browser Action Game

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  A Japanese blogger ndruger made a single-page browser action game only using the latest CSS. You need to catch 101 cows by clicking. Only the latest versions of Chrome/Safari can run this game. Firefox/IE are not supported.

  • テクノロジー
  • 2011/05/24 21:20

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  May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)

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  Early part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Because of the Golden Week holiday, there were very few releases on Japanese web. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Toyota Features Hatsune Miku For North America Promotion Nikkei Trendy’s Twitter/Facebook Usage Chart After The Quake. using Nielsen/NetRatings data TV Remote Simpli

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  • 2011/05/22 23:18

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  Asahi Shimbun Follows To Nikkei, Digital Subscription Starts Today

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  Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest newspapers in Japan and the world, is to start “Asahi Shimbun Digital” at 3 p.m. today, May 18th 2011, which is seen on its teaser page [J] (thanks @kansai_takako). The teaser page does not tell much, but I think the “digital” means paid-subscription of online version, like Nikkei has been doing on its Nikkei Digital. Asahi Shimbun has been running its online site

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  • 2011/05/19 08:40

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  Code Boxing With Kinect And Tython, Muscle Programming Language

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  A Japanese blogger id:gongoZ [J] released “Muscle Programming Language/Framework: Tython” on May 14. This Tython, released as an open source project, with Kinect enables you to program by body movements. In short, you can program by boxing in front of Kinect. See a video demo here, id:gongoZ could code to put out “Hello, World” only within 4 minutes. The source “code” of this “Hello, World” is, le

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  • 2011/05/14 23:37

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  5,000 Yen($60) To Enable Twitter On Your Smartphone

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  A cellphone shop in Yokohama offers a service to set up your smartphone for tweeting by 5,000 yen, @poppo1028 reported. Twitter and other social media has been getting more and more attentions on TV, newspaper and magazines after the Eastern Japan earthquake. Both good side and bad side of social media at disasters were reported, and many may be thinking to have one more communication channel for

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  • 2011/04/23 22:44

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  Placeholder Public Service Commercial Buzzed Crazy In Japan

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  Advertising Council Japan (AC Japan) has been mostly a sole commercial providers on Japanese commercial TV stations for a week since the East Japan Earthquake occured. As most regular companies did not want to play their commercial with fear of criticized as inconsiderate during many people are in deep grief, all commercial stations (i.e. non NHK) are airing didactic commercial films from this pub

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  • 2011/03/21 23:46

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  Bijostagram – Shows Only Beautiful Girls From Instagram

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  Bijostagram (bijo = beautiful lady in Japanese) is a new Instagram mashup from Japan to pick up only photos with beautiful girls. You open the page, then it refreshes periodically. The site was backed by a algorithm to detect beautiful girls photo only, developed by the creator hirotmb, and the frontend Javascript is supported by @amachang. We introduced another Instagram mashup for cats photo, Ne

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  • 2011/03/10 11:37

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  What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese – Bath Tub Lid

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  Apple’s new iPad2 announcement was followed by a lot of coverage, so I do not have much to add from Japan. A funny thing happened in Japanese web was about their newly-introduced official option – case. Japanese bath tub lid is common item in Japanese home. The reason is that in Japan, family members share the same hot water (sounds dirty? Japanese wash their body outside of tub first, and bathing

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  • 2011/03/03 10:34

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  Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories

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  We’ve come across a service by NTT Communications tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service” [J], which unlike its name, is an incredibly interesting little innovation in the world of health management apps and web services. The smartphone app / web service allows people to keep track of their daily diet via their smartphone cameras, an extremely relevant innovation in a country where

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  • 2011/03/02 15:03
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  Buy Your Twitter Friend a Beer With Micro-gifting Service giftee

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  Have you ever wanted to buy your Twitter friend a drink as a way of saying “Thanks” or “Cheer up”? You could have opted for an Amazon or iTunes e-giftcard if you knew their email address – but that kind of digital money is just not the same as a fuzzy or warm drink that they can enjoy in real life. Micro-gifting service giftee makes it easier to show your online friends appreciation or encourageme

  • テクノロジー
  • 2011/03/02 09:20

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  “I’m A Russian-Japanese.” – Facebook Beset On Japanese Nickname Judgement

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  On February 8th, about two weeks ago, Facebook suspended quite a few numbers of Japanese active users who had names which do not sound like Japanese. They asked for the users their real name and copy of ID like passport. It shocked Japanese early adopters who were tasting Facebook backed by media boom, as many of them were used to use nick name and non-photo icons (e.g. illustrations, still object

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  • 2011/02/21 17:39

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  Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan “Under The Radar”?

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  It’s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc. But what about startups that don’t have huge budgets to internationalize, no staff in Japan and – in some cases – not even a Japanese user interface (usually a dealbreaker for most local web users). Here’s a recent (yet surely incomplete)

  • 学び
  • 2011/02/15 20:30

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