Tsuhan Tsushin reported that Google Japan got Grand Prix at Japan Posts Direct Mail Award [J], which is an annual contest choose the best from companies direct mail(DM) really sent. This year, 28 DM ...
This weeks Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Toshiba Blu-ray Recorder Stops By Auto-Updator Bug ...
Business daily The Nikkei says it learned that Amazon Japan, the countrys second-biggest e-commerce company, is planning to finally offer its e-book reader Kindle to Japanese customers. According to ...
Mangajet [J] is a new Japanese service which let you make a Japanese manga-comic style illustration with provided characters, background images, baloons with your text. The generated comic strip can ...
Japans largest mobile marketing and advertising firm, D2 Communications (D2C), has acquired a 0.9% stake in Tokyo-based Ubiqituous Entertainment (UEI). D2C acquired a total of 400 UEI shares - other ...
The smartphone location sharing service Foursquare has added the “Sakura Badge,” limited to the Tokyo area. This is the first appearance of a limited badge from Foursquare in Japan. The conditions f...
Twitter added more choices of cities on its trending keywords in Japan on February 2. There were only all-Japan and Tokyo rankings before. 6 cities, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sendai ...
BitWallet, who runs one of Japans most successful e-money service Edy since 2011, who joined the Japans largest e-mall group Rakuten in January 2010, 2 years ago, announced [J] that the e-money brand...
(@cosmes tag line on the logo is "site of everyones word of mouth") Istyle [J], who runs Japans top cosmetic products review site @Cosme, announced [J] on February 3, 2012, that they will be ...
This weeks Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Docomo Announces To Take Over Online Grocery Servic...
Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a "singer" for Chrome promotion in...
CyberAgent [J] has announced that they will transfer their iPhone camera social network app “My365” over to Sirok, a subsidiary company they set up for developing smartphone applications. From now o...
I tried out the music service “Beatrobo,” where you create a robot avatar and listen to the same music (YouTube videos) with your friends and introduce music to each other. The avatar on the right ha...
DMM.com [J], who offer mail order and DVD rentals as well as video distribution, are currently testing out offering social games for cell phones. The service page is here. [J] At the moment, titles...
Koei Tecmo [J] has made a contract with Taiwan’s Cayenne Entertainment Tchnology and have announced that they will develop their currently offered social game “Nobu-nyaga’s Ambition” for Yahoo! Mobag...
2012 version of annual Tokyo Marathon will be held on February 26, with 36,000 runners who luckily win the lottery from 283,988 applicants. At the marathon, one of the official supplier Dole Japan is...
CyberAgent [J] announced on December 30th of 2011 that the number of users of their “Ameba” [J] community has topped 20 million. To commemorate this momentous development of the “Ameba” service, the...
Takeo city, in Saga prefecture in Kyushu island, has been known by its net-savvy mayor Keisuke Hiwatashi. As a mayor, he switched the city website onto Facebook page, which gets 50 times more page vi...
DeNA, who runs Mobage, announced today [J] that it instituted legal action to demand Gree and its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka an apology and compensation for the loss caused by Grees press release and Tanak...
JKT48, the Indonesian sister band of ultra-popular Japanese girl group AKB48 (Asiajin), is promoting Rakuten Belanja Online, Rakutens joint venture with Jakarta-based media powerhouse PT Global Media...
Pixiv, the most popular of Japans many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on Septemb...
This weeks Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Navit Allegedly Manipulates Reviews On @Cosme By Us...
Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger ad...
Downloads of “Hage-mu” (Bald Game in English version, comes from "hage(bald)" and "game"), an iPhone application for gliding on the bald heads of guys from around the world offered by...
Hulu Japan, actvila, and other existing video content providers are getting competition soon: a total of seven Japanese companies are currently preparing a video-on-demand service for connected TVs t...
Asahi reported [J] that Japans Patent Office(JPO) decided to terminate their patent management system renewal project which began in 2006. They already spent 5.5 billion yen(US$70 million) and specia...
January 25, two of Japans largest social networking service companies, DeNA(who runs Mobage) and Mixi announced their new alliance on social commerce. On the release, it is said that "Mixi, who h...
"Tell Your World ", the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories. iTunes Japan chart at 19th J...
NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japans largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo, a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo start...
Jpaan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) on January 20 released [J] that they are running an experiment to distribute files which name look like pirated TV drama videos from January...
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