Tweet Today, March 5, 2013, many users reports are circulating Twitter and other social media, that their Chrome browser do not let them open some Japanese websites, including major ones. The sites alleged by Google includes a national newspaper Mainichi.jp, a popular music ranking site Oricon Style, MyNavi News, one of the most popular 2-channel [...]

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Tweet Ambition Inc. [J] has released “Gijin Kareshi Comic Anthology” (Simulated Boyfriend …) based on their social game Gijin Kareshi. [J] “Gijin Kareshi” is a nurturing anthropomorphic romance social game for girls currently offered for Mobage, entagl, pixiv, and mixi.  As well as having made collaborations with various corporations, from March of this year they [...]

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Tweet Ambition [J] has released the social games “Moé Can Change!” [J] and “Gijin Kareshi” [J] (simulated boyfriend) on “pixiv Mobile,” [J] a mobile site run by Pixiv. [J] “pixiv Mobile” is the mobile phone version of the illustrated SNS “pixiv.”  They set up “pixiv Game” from November of 2011 and began offering social games. [...]

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Tweet Pixiv, the most popular of Japan’s many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on September 10 in 2007, exactly 1,602 days to reach that milestone. That’s about 2,500 users per day – not bad at all, especially [...]

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Tweet This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Lawsuits news continues around web services. It is not so common to take a legal action in Japan if you compare with countries like U.S. KLab To Sue Crooz Over Social Game Copyright DeNA Expresses It’s Thinking To Sue [...]

Tags: Japan IT Links by Akky Akimoto
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