Although the growth is not high as in English, twitter has been beloved by Japanese users even before its localization, and probably approaching to the critical mas. Many twitter related events (some are with Tumblr) have been and will be held recently in Tokyo.

Even though Tokyo is the one of the most dense and active cities for IT/Web community events in the world, a big wave seems to be coming in Japanese web. Last time when I saw this kind of events rush was few years ago on Second Life (Touch Wood!).

# all event pages are in Japanese

6/17
Tumblr/Twitter offline party at Roppongi

6/26
twitter night vol.2 by Toshiaki Kanda (Kanda News Network)

6/30
Workshop – think twitter and politics
Masahiko Shoji, Fumi Yamazaki, Daisuke Tsuda

6/30
Official Event – talk with people from Twitter(USA)

7/17
Twitter and Tumblr – talking geekish communication deeply
(site is not opened yet, will update soon)

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At the iPhone 3GS launch event in Omotesando, Tokyo, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son told a story about when he talked an idea of combining iPod and cellphone to Steve Jobs.

According to Son, he had a meeting with jobs in 4,5 years ago, which is before he bought the Japan’s third biggest cellphone company from Vodafone. There he told Jobs about his intention either to establish or buy cellphone company in Japan, and asked if Apple could make a new device which combines their popular music player iPod and cellphone. Jobs answered to Son that he actually had been thinking the same idea.

He also announced that the nation’s superstar group SMAP is cast as their Softbank Mobile’s brand character, stepping into Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt‘s shoes.

via iPhone 3G Wiki blog [J]

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