Gayle L McDowell’s book “The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company” is translated to Japanese and sold in Japan this month.

The cover image of the Japanese version book posted by a blogger Yumaendo got a huge buzz on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.

Probably for Japanese market, the title of the book is changed to “How to take a job at Google, Apple and Microsoft”, and the extra cover at bottom says “… and I teach you how to take a job at Rakuten” with Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s photo.

Yumaendo wrote that how his photo were copied into other social media without his credit. The popular one on Twitter has “The least wanted extra cover is buzzing on the net” comment.

Generally, Japanese books have a color cover sheet in slick paper. Whilst the book is newly published and/or being promoted, they also have a shorty extra-cover with catches, recommendations by authorities, how many copies sold, etc. In store, shop clerks will offer to set another paper cover for people who want to hide what they are reading on train commuting.

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iPhone’s voice navigation Siri recently added Japanese support. Japan’s largest telco NTT Docomo had released Android app “Shabette Concier”(or “Konsheru” from Japanese notation, abbrev of concierge) on March 1, just before the Siri Japanese launch.

Here is a video by Japanese YouTube user ysm7651 compare the two side by side.

More of the watchers’ impressions tells Docomo’s one work better. Some commented to want Apple to improve it to the same level as in English.

It is still possible that this person had chosen phrases which Docomo’s one gives back better result faster.

Tags: Android, iOS, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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DeNA [J] and Cygames, [J] who develop Social Application Provider (SAP) projects, have agreed to undertake a strategic partnership for the development of domestic and overseas social game projects.

DeNA, who run the uber-popular Japanese social game platform “Mobage” (URL: http://mbga.jp) with over 35 million members, are presently strengthening the development of overseas projects with their entire group.

Cygames develops and offers domestic social games for Mobage [J] such as “Sengoku SAGA” and “Shingeki Bhamut,” and particularly “Shingeki Bahamut” has become quite the popular title with a total of over 1 million registered members.  From this strategic partnership moving forward, Cygames will continue to offer several new titles for Mabage in Japan, and from March 1st DeNa will take part in the management of “Shingeki Bahamut” which has been developed and run by Cygames until now.  From here on they are planning to coordinate with DeNA’s own game titles.

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