Japanese outplacement firm Intelligence [J] released their research of what companies people want to join next [J], done on 5,000 of office workers between age 25 to 34.

On the ranking, Google jumped up from 2009's third position because of good feeling to their "innovation" and "potential".

# Oriental Land is a company who runs Tokyo Disney Land/Sea.

Another software/web companies

The top listed 10 did not change, but at 11th, Apple Japan is ranked up from 2009's 33rd, which is likely by a lot of iPhone/iPad exposure on news and ads by Softbank.

As you notice, Yahoo! Japan, which is much stronger than Google Japan here, is quite unpopular as a working place in compare. Amazon Japan also gets distanced from its rival Rakuten from the point of view of potential workers' popularity.

See Also:

Press release [J]

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Manga de wakaru JavaScript Programming Kouza(The manga guide to JavaScript Programming Course) is an online web manga (Japanese style comic) for novice programmers to study JavaScript programming language by themselves.

In a story, three high-school students learn JavaScript from a teacher in a year. 4 Chapters, 23 sections, 153 pages this manga covers the basics of JavaScript, objects, array, regular expression, DOM, event handler, style sheet, cookies, jQuery, bookmarklet, WSH, HTA, etc.

Both the manga and texts are authored by Masakazu Yanai [J] (@ruten [J])

In the country where comic is not only for kids, many educational materials exist in manga style. Few are even translated and exported.

The Manga Guide to Relativity (Manga Guide To...)

The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology (Manga Guide To...)

The Manga Guide to Databases (Manga Guide To...)

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Continued from (Part 1)

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• ClapClap Clock - Handclap Triggered Sound Clock iPhone App
• A Blogger Accuses The Ruling Party DPJ To Censor Twitter, Without Knowing Twitter Search In Japanese Is Kind Of Broken
• Domino Pizza Campaign In Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Singapore
• Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur Visits Tokyo To Meet Softbank, Mixi, DeNA and Japanese Users
• A Magazine WebSite Experts Picked Up Asiajin As A WordPress-based Blog
• Big Publisher Kodansha To Release First Digital Novel Set On iPad Launch
• Gree CTO Shows Tantative PHP modification Possibly Couple-of-times Faster
• Two Magazine Covers Have AR Gimics -
  Web Desining 2010/06 and GQ 2010/07
• 30 Years Anniversary Of Pacman Twitter App For iPhone
• Non-Digital Picturebook For iPhone
• Microsoft Said No To Join Docomo i-mode in (maybe around) 2001
• Synthetic Singer Tops Japan's Music Album Ranking Oricon Ranking
• Increment introduces face recognition API for free
• 2 Channel And Niconico Douga Founder Hiroyuki To Trip And Livestream From Zimbabwe And South Africa
• Reopened Akihabara Hotel Offers Wake-up Call By Anime Voice Actoress Students
• Japan Racing Association Provides Free Virtual Dating Game On Website
• Bandai Namco Games Produces Elementary School Textbook With Roleplaying Flavour
• Twitter Drama Mislead A Husband To Ban His Wife's Account - Is Twitter A Random Dating Service?
• Pixiv Passed Over 2 Million Registered Users On Weekend, A Vice President Tweets
• HootSuite CEO Visits Japan, Opens Japanese Site And Twitter @hootsuite_Japan. HotSuite tells 30% of their users are from Japan via @kogure
• Mobile Based Navigation Company Navitime Japan Enters Into Car Navigation Hardware
• Mixi Releases "mixi for BlackBerry smartphones"
• 100,000 Cellphone Unreachable Japanese Grumbles Grand-Children Do Not Visit Them Because Of That
• Digital Garage Begins Affiliate Tweet Service Tsubureko
• User-Generated Manga Ads Banner Service MangaAd Gets 1,000 Posts In First Month
• Government Pushes To Reduce Cellphone Unreachable Users From 102,000 to 5-70,000
• Draw Triangles On Earth - Geolocation Game "Geotrion" Launches For iPhone
• CyberAgent Ameblo Now Supports Google Chrome!!
• Tokyo Electric Power To Begin Public Power Socket Service
• Twitter Uniqlo Lucky Line Hype Caused False Alarm Of Password Leak URL of the text file, which caching users name and public profile, read from Uniqlo's Flash, was found by users and some misunderstood their passwords leaked, too.
• Livedoor Sets Up Maximum 3 Million Yen Blogger Scholarship
• Sony Vaio P's My Video Clip Generator For Twitter Users
• Mobile Gelocation Game Ketai Kunitori Gassen Passed Over A Half Million Users
• World Cup 2022 Japan's High Tech Plan Movie
• Joi Ito's response on Twitter's banning paid tweet and Digital Garage business [En]
• CyberAgent's AmebaPico Gets A Million Users In 2.5 Months
• Opt Announces Social App Contest
• P2P Leaked Data Exposing Blackmailers Arrested
• More Chinese and Japanese consumer buys food online than American [En]
• Hikari Tsuushin And Others Runs Smartphone Application Contest With Total 1 Billion Yen Prize
• Multilingual Social Manga Drawing Community Magajin
• Sony Vaio P's Software Update Makes It Be An iPad Bluetooth Keyboard And Stand
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government Joins To Manage Australian Water Company, Exports Japan's Super-low Leakage Rate
• Softbank Creative Gets Exclusive Rights To Broadcast Soccer World Cup 64 Games For Cellphone In Japan - though most Japanese cellphone have one-seg TV
• Softbank Group Viewn Launches E-magazine Subscription Service For iPad And Other Softbank Phones
• Weekly Post Has A Long Interview For ex-Google Japan President Kouichiro Tsujino
• Mixi Launches Smartphone Page Mixi Touch
• Docomo-DeNA's UGC Service "Everystar" Announced For Next Week Launch
• KDDI Au Expands Cellphone Contents Payment System To PC/Smartphone, Following to NTT Docomo

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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Rakuten has just announced [J, pdf] that they bought 100% of French E-commerce company PriceMinister S.A.

The purchase is planned to done in July 2010 for 200 million Euro (22.5 billion yen).

Rakuten established their European branch S.a.r.l. in Luxembourg in 2008. That company will handle this acquisition.

Rakuten has been actively adding its oversea companies in USA, Europe(S.a.r.l.), China, Taiwan, Thai and planning to go Indonesia.

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Dot War is a Flash-based strategy game with thousands of generated units from your, your friends' or random Twitter icons.

On the start menu, you may choose "single scenario", "manual match-up" or "automatic VS mode". You may manipulate your troops by mouse, or in the automatic mode, your setting two icons fight in auto-play. And in the VS mode, the same combination of Twitter users always leads the same result.

Units made from every single pixel from Twitter icon, has four parameters given by its colour. So each icon has different speed, stamina, attacking power and reach.

You will win when you can take down your opponent's three crystals within time.

The game is created by a Tokyo-based Flash engineer Sipo (@tail_y).

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