Amazon Japan And Yodobashi Camera Heat Up On The Release Day Delivery
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
Lady Gaga Shows Up On A Long-Running Japanese Talkshow
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
May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
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
5,000 Yen($60) To Enable Twitter On Your Smartphone
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
enchant.js: New HTML5/JavaScript Game Engine For Smartphones
Tokyo-based Ubiquitous Entertainment (UEI) announced [JP] “enchant.js” yesterday, an HTML5/JavaScript game engine for smartphones (and PCs). The engine is available in beta, it’s open source (dual license MIT or GPL on github), and entirely free to use. UEI says their aim with the release of the engine is to motivate young people in particular to start programming games as well as to lower the hur
What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese – Bath Tub Lid
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
“I’m A Russian-Japanese.” – Facebook Beset On Japanese Nickname Judgement
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
Mark Zuckerberg Look-alike Japanese Comedian
When something’s the topic of the moment, anything about it can become big news. Here we go, Facebook news again. Japanese comedian Shigeo Takahashi (photos on Google Image Search), a member of the manzai-style stand-up comedy duo Savanna [J], made special appearances prior to the show of “The Social Network” movie in Tokyo because he bears a striking resemblance to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerber
Facebook Japan Takes Hard Line, Banning Pseudo Names And Requires ID
Today February 8, some Japanese web users who are influential in tech communities like Hatena and Twitter, started reporting they were locked out from Facebook. After trying to log in, they were taken to the form, which title is “Complaints against a ban of your account, identity demanded”. On the form, following information are asked to provide, contact mail address name date of birth mail addres
Barcode Kanojo – Barcode Battler Reincarnated With Otaku Flavour
Barcode Kanojo is a free iPhone Application with virtual social dating community service by Cybird, Japan-based mobile contents company. We reported the news title (only) in early August, but it seems to take time to be approved by Apple. You may download the application, scan any 1D barcode around you, then you will get one virtual girlfriend generated out of 7 trillion variations. Those virtual
Facebook Adds Mixi Connector For Japanese
Facebook has just released a new export tool to connect itself with Japanese competitor social networking service, Mixi. The tool on Facebook, named “Facebook to Mixi wo Rinku”(Link Facebook and Mixi), will take you to Mixi API’s approval page. Which asks the following permissions you allow to the Facebook connector to do on Mixi data, get nickname and profile photo on Mixi get Mixi friends(Maimik
ex-Yahoo! Japan Employee Blogs About Irrational Cost Saving And Micro Management
An Engineer, who recently resigned Yahoo! Japan, the country’s most successful web company, wrote his experiences in his 4 years – as a foreigner in English. From the article by Jon Keating (@emostar ), he wrote many interesting observations which can be applied to many Japanese establishment companies. “Creating quarterly goals that must be met creates a culture of procrastination. Instead of mak
Cnet Japan Overhauled. ex-Chief Editor Takes TechCrunch Japan’s Head
On May 31th, Cnet Japan [J], run by Asahi Interactive, a subsidiary of Asahi Shimbun [J], a Japanese online tech media licensed by US Cnet, has changed its design to an original US Cnet like black-banner from long lasted yellow based one. Also added twitter retweet assistant function. cnet Japan old design Ex-chief editor Moved to TechCrunch Japan On May 27th, at TechCrunch Japan Tokyo-camp [J], s
Shoryuken! Livedoor Introduces World First Joystick Notation For Wiki
Livedoor Wiki has added a new notation [J] for gamers who want to share the game’s tips and tricks. If you write like this, &pad(ps3){6,2,3,plus,shikaku} then it will be displayed as this, For convenience, a game command editor is provided so you may press those buttons to generate notations like above. (all screenshots are from 941::blog [J], a Livedoor director Kushii’s blog)
Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off
As implied by teaser page, Twitter Japan has launched an official Japanese cellphone site http://twtr.jp. Here is the teaser page changed to a guide page which has both cellphone site URL and QR Code. The current mobile site http://m.twitter.com/, which is not really usable (it did not work with many of Japanese phone browsers) for Japanese cellphone users, now transferred to this http://twtr.jp,
Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone
Twitter Japan’s official twitter account tweeted to give an URL under their official twitter navigation site twinavi.jp. It looks like that this teaser page is for newly coming Japanese cellphone compliant mobile website for 3 major carriers, NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile. Months ago Twitter Japan announced that they would develop a special version which handles Japanese cellphone web di
Japan’s First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way
A paper book named “Twitter Shousetsu – 140 ji no Monogatari”(Twitter Novels – 140 Letters Stories) is to be published at the beginning of next month, announced by one of ten professional authors, Mika Naitoh [J]. There will be over 100 very short stories in the book. According to her blog, the first Japanese book compiling tweet novels is written by 10 professional authors, @EnJoeToh, @toiimasuno
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