First half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (follows to Part 2)

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Another Japanese iPad on… iTunes!
• Google Logo Contests By Kids, Japan round
• English translations of some popular 2-channel phrases
• NEC’s Android based touchscreen gear like iPad (December 2009 news)
• NicoNico Douga Testing Casual Games With Premium Members
• Microsoft, Yahoo and TBS Starts Web Drama C.I.A, Cyber Intelligent Angels, To Enlighten Internet Security For Teenagers
• One-day Rubber Suit Maid Cafe In Akihabara
• Hatsune Miku Rice-cookie
• Pepsi Rips Off Japanese Awarded Music Video, some Japanese claim
• Impress sold Digital Garage stock
• TV Over NTT East Optical Internet Supports Yahoo! Gyao Integration On STV
• Dentsu To Start Closed Beta Of Zapping Browse Site Gururin
• UCC(Ueshima Coffee) did the worst Twitter campaign with random reply spam from several accounts. Official apology [pdf]
• Google Japan Is Planning To Increase Ads Sales Staff 50%
• @kotarotamura) hurl abuse at his Twitter followers and blocked them, caused flaming. A week later he left LDP to join DPJ
• 2-channelers play on US Yahoo.com password reminder character
• Foursquare for Docomo Cellphone Proxy Service by @hkk
• 1 in 4 bloggers uses Twitter in Japan
• Funny And Amazing Japanese Vendor-machines
• Rakuten CEO now mixes tweets in English. “We changed the slides of all company meeting into English. Small first change.” “I encouraged our employees to use Twitter this morning:-)”
• Amazon Japan Aiming Japanese Books For Kindle In October 2010
• Evernote CEO told Japanese media(Nikkei BP) that Too Open Or Too Network Oriented Service Fails In Japan like Facebook
• KDDI America Invests Two American MVNO To Provide Cellphone Services To Immigrants
• Mixi and Bandai Namco Starts Purikura Photo Transfer To Mixi Photo
• Another Freemuim Model From Japan- Free Hentai Game Maybe To Promote Anime Figure
• Koei Announces Their Flagship Game Nobunaga’s Ambitious Goes On Mobage Town
• Pocky(Mikado) Snack AR Campaign For St. Valentine Day
• MovaTwitter, Third Party Twitter Mobile Service, Incorporated
• iPhone App Only To Cut 4 Girls Bangs
• Rakuten President Also Becomes The president of Edy(BitWallet) they purchased
• Yet Another Government’s AR experiment in Kansai
• Rumor: Amazon Is Seeking Tokyo Data Centre For EC2
• Cat Station Master Begins Twitter
• Fukuoka Tenjin Daimyo WiFi Association starts a Twitter campaign to revitalize the city’s shopping street.
• Bijin-Dog, beautiful dogs in Bijin-Tokei format
• Ioix Begins English Geek Blog Forever Geek’s Japanese Version (They already run The Blog Herald Japanese)
• CoroPura Starts CoroTabi, A Service Recommends Travel Packages To Their Users
• Japan Federation of Bar Associations Submits Statement On Google Street View Privacy to Google

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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