Taito [J] is coming out with “Space Invaders Infinity Gene LITE for Mobage,” an Android game app on DeNA’s [J] Mobage [J] platform.  They are also planning an iOS version for this Fall.

“Space Invaders Infinity Gene LITE for Mobage” is a free app which allows users to get a taste of the evolution of “Space Invaders Infinity Gene” which is distributed in the Japanese Android Market.  Any users who use Mobage on smart phone can play, and there is also an original stage exclusively for Mobage.  As you play “Space Invaders Infinity Gene” you see that the leveling up, the spaceship, the stages, the BGM, and the whole system of the game itself is an “evolutionary” shooting game.  This game is already available on feature phone and iOS devices, PlayStation3, Xbox 360, and is a popular title which has won many awards around the world.

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Japan’s 2nd biggest convenience chain-store Lawson makes its image character girl ‘Akiko-chan’ transformed to Vocaloid, Yamaha’s artificial voice synthesizer brand well-known by used for a popular virtual singer Hatsune Miku.

The official Lawson-channel [J] is made on Nico Nico Douga.

via ITMedia

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eBook Initiative Japan Co., Ltd., who runs Japanese online e-book mall eBookJapan [J], announced that their IPO at Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers section has been approved [J]. The planned date is October 28.

eBookJapan started selling online book since year 2000, when the company was established. The site now boasts 50,000 e-books, 80% of which are online manga(comics).

Readers are offered for Windows, Macintosh, iPad/iPhone/iPod touch, Android and Windows Phone.

In Japan, there is an e-comic authoring tool vendor Celsys has already been listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section.

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Early part of September news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• FFFTP, One Of Japan’s Most Popular Windows Free FTP Client Announced Its End Of Development
• NHK Begins Internet Radio Simulcasting
• Etolabo’s Mobile Photo Sharing Service Pikubo Handed Over To Insprout – Batara Eto is said to concentrate on EastVentures
• Livedoor Releases Anker – Communication Forums Using Facebook Account
• The Number Of Mixi Page Made Passes 80,000 – To avoid heavy load, they said that Mixi intentionally did not make the pages indexed on search engines. There are opinions (on Twitter) that Mixi Page not being indexed was just a configuration mistake, but Mixi tried to cover it up for some reason.
• Docomo Said To Complain To The Police A Tech-News Blogger For Unfair Competition Case – The blog Juggly.cn has been actively leaking Docomo’s new handsets recently.
  SBS [En]
• Fuji TV Release Official Explanation Around Web-Bashed Korean-Biased Program Issue – there are some netizens working on demonstration
• Softbank To Provide Users’ Age To Gree And Mixi, Following To KDDI au – to protect minors
• CyberAgent Invests To Korean Social Messaging Service Kakao
• Seattle’s Seven Eleven Testing Receiving Amazon Parcels [En] – Amazon Japan supports delivery to Lawson for years and does not need such locker
• Transformer Hugging Pillow (Dakimakura [En])

  

• Osaka Electro-Communication University Releases iPhone Guide With Virtual Girl

  

• Karelog [En] is on Macafee’s spyware list
• Karelog Releases Orelog, Sharing YOUR Privacy Actively With Your Girlfriend – hahaha
• Internet Watch asks Kaspersky if Karelog is malware. LOL
• How To Cure The Internet Addict

  

• Dragon Quest Slime Meat Bun

  

• Major Publishers Publishes An Open Letter To Over 100 Book-Scan Service Companies
• Medical Representative Confesses Illegal Drug Use Among Colleagues On Twitter
• E-book Service Renta Adds English Site – the e-books are still all in Japanese
• “Save Electricity” Neon Sign
• Sakura Internet Starts Beta Testing Of Sakura Cloud. Sakura Cloud price will be 1/2 to 1/3 of Amazon Web Services – President told
• Hulu CEO Talks Why Japanese Paid Movie Services Failed. – Failed? Hulu just got 1 million paid users and there are at least three movie subscription services having over million payers in Japan.
• JR East To Test Smartphone Information Service On Yamanote Train. release, though it is on only one train. via MyCom
• Ex-worker Whose Contract Not Renewed Intrudes Office And Pour Chili Source And Dressing Over 10 PCs
• Docomo To Enable Migration Of Paid Subscriptions From i-mode To Smartphone, Nikkei Reports
• Nico Nico Douga Hires ex-Manbe-kun For Event PR Twitter. – S/he and her/his company was cut off by a local town by too political tweets.
• Tokyo Met Govmnt Explains Youth Slangs On The Web
• AMN Announces Japan’s Top 50 Pro-Social Media Companies
• “Evil Stamp Shop”(it is the shop’s name) Selling Informal Japanese stamps
• Website Selling Fake Employment Certification Accused. Alibi
• Mooo! – Nico Nico Douga + Drawing Overlay via @IT
• ex-Just System’s conference at FCCJ [En]
• Hulu’s alliance with Docomo is pre-install and 3 months free subscription on new LTE tablet
• Gree’s Third Party Game Provider Employee Arrested By Altering Game Data Of 1.3 Million Players
• Alessandro Delpiero Official Japanese Blog Starts
• Japanese Satisfaction Research On Domestic And Imported Smartphones
• “Forieng Blogger-Like” Hair Style On A Ladies Magazine An-an. still unsure what is the hairstyle of foreign bloggers…
• ComiPo! English Version Release [En]
• Japan’s Google Doodle Sci-Fi Writer Shinichi Hoshi On Sep 5
• Famitsu Gree – Game Magazine Dedicated For Gree’s Social Games In Store On Sep 15

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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