In the days from January to March, it is very hard time for high school graduates and prep-school students because of taking entrance exams for universities/colleges of their choices.   They are always nervous.  Not a few of the students suffer from diarrhea before the exams.  Poor thing.

Lion Corporation, a 220 year-old sanitary and pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Tokyo, has introduced the iPhone app that allows you to find a nearest restroom at the exam venues whenever you want to take a shit.   This is a promotion of their medicine for diarrhea.

The iPhone app, which is named @Toilet College, shows you a location map of restrooms by entering the name of college/university or by the GPS detecting and helps you concentrate on the exams.   Furthermore, the company set up a virtual shrine for praying for preventing diarrhea[J] on the promotion website. Students are leaving a bunch of posts for their luck for passing exams without experiencing diarrhea during the time, and those will be delivered to a real shrine in Kyoto that has been known for having the god of curing stomachaches.

Tags: Japan, Joke, News by Masaru IKEDA
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Japanese YouTube user hogehoge335 released his new Kinect demonstration with legendary transforming TV hero Ultra Seven [Wikipedia, En] (The second season of Ultraman series).

[Update] The creator hogehoge335 made an English subtext version,

Here is the original Japanese version,

By hogehoge335′s move on the webcam, several Ultra Seven’s powers like throwing hair part, head beam and arm beam. At the end, his flying back to the space is perfectly replayed.

You can watch the original Ultra Seven opening theme here,

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Sharp announced recently they would introduce the e-book reader Galapagos[J], which was introduced in Japan last October, in U.S and several emerging countries such as Mainland China, India and Brazil.  The current models enable the company’s original e-book format of XMDF, and upcoming models to be sold outside Japan are expected to support e-Pub format and 3G connectivity as well as WiFi.

The company also plans to deploy it as a textbook browser this month at IITH, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, which aims to prove it as a tool for online education programs especially for rural areas and encourage the usage at schools in African nations.

See Also:

• Sharp Ties Up With Japan’s Largest Video Rental Chain For Content Distribution To Android Tablets

Tags: Company, Japan, News by Masaru IKEDA
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