Naomi Koshi, a mayor of Ohtsu, Shiga-prefecture, who recorded the youngest female mayor when she was elected this January 2012, was reported by several national papers that she “moaned” that her opinions do not reach for her people via Japanese media in Japanese and English.

I am so frustrated at Japanese media. Does this happen all over the world?? Or only in Japan??

Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi, Sankei’s sports paper, etc. reported in titles with “moan”, “criticize”, “anti-media”.

Koshi answered to Yomiuri that she wanted to explain directly to her supporters, also wanted to ask her foreign friends if such miscommunications are common thing.

Like the news that video streaming of her first address making the server down, we reported last month, “politician”, “woman” and “young” seemed to be magic keywords, has been attracting some manly news-makers. This social media usage might make media disappointed.

Tags: Japan, News by Akky Akimoto
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Interspace, [J] Takara Tomy Entamedia, [J] and GREE [J] have released the new social card battle game Transformers for GREE [J] for feature phone from February 10th.

“Transformers for GREE” is a card game with graphics that are true to the Transformer [J] world style, and within the game, Transformers from throughout the ages appear one after another.  Users freely combine “Cybertron” and “Deathtron” characters and make an original deck for themselves, and can keep advancing by winning battles aiming to be the strongest party.  Every character chard was drawn out especially for this game, so the illustrations are high quality.

© ＴＯＭＹ / © T-EM / ©more games / ©Interspace

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Tags: News, Social game by Chiho Komoriya
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Colopl [J] has released “Himitsu Tantei Kari” [J] (Treasure Detective) for Android.  It’s a classic style RPG card battle game  specialized for smartphones and entirely web base.

‘Treasure Detective’ is a game with over 150 different cards available to be used to make your own strongest party and gather treasures in the realm of ancient ruins, legends and islands.  Users search through each stage and fight various enemies and bosses to complete quests, and battles unfold as you and other users struggle for treasures.  Another unique feature is the ability to use capsule toy vending machines based on your location, so depending on where you go you can build up your party.

Colopl, along with multi-developing the location game platform “Colopl” for feature phone and smartphone, are going to focus on continuing to expand specialized smartphone applications.

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Tags: Social game by Chiho Komoriya
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iPhone social camera app Instagram announced on its official Twitter account that it now supports Mixi, Japan’s largest real-side(as opposed to game-centric Gree/Mobage) social networking service.

Hey Japan & Mixi users! We’ve added support in v2.2. Download the update to start sharing to your Mixi account now: bit.ly/wtxcuz

— Instagramさん (@instagram) 3月 1, 2012

Blog OldLifehack reported how it looks [J],

The uploaded photos will be uploaded to your diary section on Mixi.

Although tech-savvy do not like Mixi any more, majority of Japanese web users are still in Mixi, who could be loyal users in compare to tech-savvies who hops around new services every month. Even if those Mixi users migrate from feature phone to iOS, Mixi to Twitter (or Facebook?), showing some concerns on Mixi users is worth doing to be competitive.

The version 2.2 also supports China’s Weibo.

Tags: iOS, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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