A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan's web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo. As I assume a large number of Asiajin readers should be at least a bit interested in the overview , I embedded the presentation (in edited form) below for your reading pleasure.

The presentation centers on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country (direct link).

Tags: Japan by Serkan Toto
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From August 2nd, Cave is beginning sales of “Shirotsuku Collection Card Shiro CA Part I” [J] (Shiro CA) as part of their castle town development social game “Shirostuku,” at Don Quijote, major family restaurants such as Gusto and 3F, and other major chains.

“Shiro CA,” coupled with “Shirotsuku” trading cards, contain a serial ID number.  By entering this ID number into the game, users are able to acquire limited rare items from within the game.  Among the cards are all 39 military officer type cards (with 6 secret card types included), with two cards in one pack.  With tax included the price is 315 yen.  From now the company plans to expand sales of “Shiro CA” cards.

Shirotsuku Official Fan Page [J]

Translation licensed by VSMedia [J]

Tags: Japan by Chiho Komoriya
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You can watch it Adizero vs MiniSkirt site or YouTube. May not safe for work.

For social media, you are encouraged to tweet your mark, share on Facebook, Mixi and Ameba.

via Mitaimon [J]

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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[Update] Meetup has been changed to afternoon at Suria KLCC. Two local Asiajin readers who contacted me preferred during daytime.

Asiajin's chief editor Akky AKIMOTO is visiting Singapore/Malaysia for 3 weeks, that is mainly for family vacation but thinks having a chat with local Asiajin readers who are interested in.

This Wednesday, starting around 19:00 August 17, Tappers Caffé in Capsquare (No. 8 Jalan Munshi Abdullah 50100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia)

I have never visited this place, just picked up one randomly from search. You are welcome to suggest another place near there. Starting time is also flexible for me.

If you are interested in, please contact me at my surname plus gmail. I will send you my Maxis number here.

See Also:

Past Asiajin events at Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo

Tags: Announcement, Asiajin Event by Akky Akimoto
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Continued from (Part 2). Last part of July news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

Twitter as a fool detector

"Twitter, a fool detector" is a recent buzzword in Japan. It came from net-savvy's dry humor by observing "normal" people tweeted socially unacceptable things and got bashed. But that also means how Twitter is widely used by non-techy.

• Univ. of Tokyo Warns Students To Be Careful On Twitter [pdf] instead of warning not to drink when driving - A student tweeted his DUI last week
• Hosei Student Tweeted About Drinking With Japan Women Soccer Gold Medalist, Her Critics To Manager - Hosei Univ. Apologizes On A Student Tweet On Drinking With Women Soccer Gold Medalist
• Nihon Univ Student Confesses Exam Cheating On Twitter
• Air Traffic Controllers Invited Their Twitter Followers To The Restricted Area

Pixiv Troubled

Pixiv was rumored to be developing international version, but is having troubles with current users.

• Pixiv Excuses Recent Troubles On Copyright, Leaked Privacy, Assused Unfair Moderation/Deletion
• Exodus Of Pixiv Refugees Rush Into Competitors
• Pixiv Trouble Comicalized (The Original Eventually Banned From Pixiv)
• Pixiv And Chaos Lounge Trouble Explained

Other news

• Nissen Runs Social Twitter Promotion Asking Users To Form Groups For Bargained Item via MyCom
• Yahoo! Loco Starts Campaign With Several Big Chainstores
• Online Video Service Zoome.jp To End On August 31
• Sony To Discontinue 8mm Video
• DeNA Introduces Anonymous Delivery Feature On Mobile Auction Service MobaOku
• Evernote Japan Developer Competition Winners Announced
• CyberAgent Ventures Opens Taiwan Office
• Recruit Generated Mass Facebook Pages For Hotel Booking Site Jalan.net with opt-out. same as restaurants info site Hotpepper issue run by the same Recruit
• KDDI User Now Can Buy Lottery On Cellphone - charged into cellphone bill
• Rakuten To Switch Its Infoseek Mail With Windows Live Based
• B'z Ustream Live From LA Passed 10,000 Viewers Even Before Beginning
• 

  Transparent Mask not to give unnecessary pressure to your customers

• Livedoor Holdings To Be Voted For Liquidation On Aug 5
• The Japanese Government-backed investor INCJ to invest in Miselu, a developer of Android-based social music instruments.
• Kyushu-based cosmetic manufacturer Saishukan releases a facebook app that allows you to author a message movie and send it to your friends.
• Hatsune Miku Company Launches Music Live Info Sharing Service Gigle
• Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Provides Playstation Games For Docomo i-mode Market
• Japan's DeNA-backed IncubateFund to hold IncubateCamp 2nd on October 1st and 2nd.
• Google+ Japanese Most Circled User Ranking By UserLocal
• Tonchidot releases Smile Feaver, the iPhone app for making you more popular. Its facial emotion detection technology rates your smile, and encourages you improve it to give goodwill to the people around you. Demon video
• Multiple cinema operators to launch a common online ticketing service called "Mubichike (named after movie ticket)" next month.
• CyberAgent Ventures launches an office in Taipei.
• KDDI, Microsoft and Fujitsu/Toshiba streamcast their briefing on the brand new Windows Mobile phone. (starting at 9am SIN/HK, 10am Tokyo)
• Zima 100 Kiss Campaign With Boys
• 

  Amazon-Cardboard Robot Figure Photo Book To Be Published via Cinema Today

• Google and OK Go's "All is Not Lost" Supports Japanese Katakana And Disaster Victims
• KDDI's cellphone ad unit Mediba takes over rival Nobot for about JPY1.5B (Reuter) [En]
• Rakuten Buys German Tradoria‎ [pdf] - Business Week [En]
• ADK Got A Government Job To Run Twitter And Blog Surveillance On Anti-Nuclear False Information. and ADK is working on blogger volunteer tour to Miyagi & media monitoring on nuclear power info on blogs and Twitter
• Japanese Android App FxCamera Passes 10 Million Downloads
• Fashion Photo Sharing Service Fukulog [En] On JapanPulse
• A Japanese Local City Government To Shut Down Its Website, Migrate To Facebook
• Gundam Navigation App For iOS Released By Bandai-Namco via Inside Games - The Mary Sue [En]
• Foodlog, food photo calorie counting service launches English version [En]

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

Tags: Japan IT Links by Akky Akimoto
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