CA Mobile has released smartphone versions of the hostess girl simulation game “Mori Girl” and the late Edo era romance simulation game “Tsuya Girl” for Ameba.

“Mori Girl” is a red light district style game where the user becomes a hostess girl and can enjoy after parties and dates along with serving handsome regular customers.  By purchasing virtual items for things like hairstyle, makeup, and clothing, you can customize your own avatar.  Accessories, hairstyle, and costumes in collaboration with the K-Pop girls group AFTERSCHOOL are in development.  (Sales period until May 18th)

In “Tsuya Girl,” the user time slips into the late Edo period of Japan and can engage in romance with representative figures from that age.  Set in late Edo Kyoto, the player can experience romance that crosses over the barriers of time with such historical gentlemen as Sakamoto Ryouma, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Okita Souji.

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Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japan’s largest online e-commerce mall Rakuten, announced [J] on his twitter account that his new book on how he is letting his company and employees adapt to English.

英語化の話しを本に書きました。ビジネスマンだけでなく、様々な人に読んでもらえたらと思っております。前二冊と同様印税についてはすべて寄付させて頂きます。 [楽天]r10.to/hpeKmH [本] #rbooks twitter.com/hmikitani/stat…

— 三木谷浩史 H. Mikitaniさん (@hmikitani) 6月 7, 2012

“I have written up on how to make things into Engligh. It will be great if not only business persons but also several people read it. Same as my past two books, the royalty will be all donated. (link to Rakuten Books page), (book cover image)”

The Japanese title of the book is “Takaga Eigo!”, which means “It’s not more than English.” or “It’s merely English”, but the book cover also has a word “Englishnization”, which was used when Harvard Business Review featured Rakuten’s challenge (Language and Globalization: “Englishnization” at Rakuten).

The bottom of the cover, there is a text saying, “Global companies talk English. ‘Making English an official language’ will revive Japan. This is the manifesto for success (I) convinced by this past two-years experiment on Rakuten.”

The book is 1,050 yen and written in Japanese, I assume.

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