Asahi Broadcasting Company [J] and Smikie Inc. [J] have released an iOS game application themed on the popular TV series “Dai Kaizou!! Gekiteki Before After” (Great Remodeling!! Dramatic Before and After).  Download is free.

In this construction and management simulation game, the player becomes an artisan builder and craftsman by making home improvements and spicing it up by arranging various items around the house.  Already a title of the same name is offered for GREE [J], but it has no connection with this and is a separate game of its own.  Purchasing items requires coins, but you can raise plants to acquire them in your garden, so free play is possible.  Also it has social components where you can visit friends’ houses.

Dai Kaizou!! Gekiteki Before After [J]

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government bureau of citizens and cultural affairs released an iOS/Android app “Mamore! Shuuma & Elme”(mamore = protect), which is the first ever game app to pass on consumer information by local government in Japan, according to the release [J].

The game itself is a typical puzzle game, where you need to line up three balloons to erase. The app has a notification bar at the top, like mobile ads, to inform heads-up of several anecdotal deceiving cases.

まもれ！シューマ＆エルメ

Genre: Games, Puzzle, Kids

Language: EN

Devices: all

Price: free

Version: 1.0.3

Artist: 東京都生活文化局

Released at: March 25, 2013

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Tags: Android, iOS, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Higa Industries, Inc. [J] has released the iOS AR (augmented reality) application in collaboration with the pizza chain “Domino’s Pizza” and virtual idol Hatsune Miku, “Domino’s App feat. Hatsune Miku.”

“Domino’s App feat. Hatsune Miku” is an application which adds AR functions and Hatsune Miku contents to the already released Domino’s Pizza iOS Application “Domino’s Pizza App.”  Users select their order from the Domino’s Pizza menu from within the app, and can check up on the delivery status with the tracking function.  Furthermore, with the “Pizza Stage Live” function, when you look through the camera of your device at the home delivered pizza package, Hatsune Miku appears on screen and her concert begins, and with the “Social Pizza Camera,” you can take a photo together with Hatsune Miku.

Domino’s App feat. Hatsune Miku – Domino’s Home Delivery Pizza [J]
free

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iBooks had been providing only foreign books and public domain free books from Aozora Bunko (Japanese version of the Project Gutenberg).

via AppBank

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Mixi released iPhone/Android free app Nohana [J] today.

The app is a camera application with backend photo storage web service. Every month, you get one free photobook (stamp fee 90-yen = $1 required though) made from your taking photos. The book will have 28 pages with 20 photos.

They said that their business model is to sell the second or more photobooks, such like a gift to grand-parents living remotely.

The app is seen on US iTunes Store, but the texts are all in Japanese. And the truth that the site says 90-yen mail fee only, it sounds like the free book is only available domestically.

ノハナ

Genre: Photo & Video, Lifestyle

Language: EN, JA

Devices: iPhone4S, iPhone4, iPadMini4G, iPodTouchThirdGen, iPadThirdGen, iPadWifi, iPadFourthGen, iPadMini, iPadThirdGen4G, iPad3G, iPodTouchFifthGen, iPadFourthGen4G, iPhone-3GS, iPad2Wifi, iPhone5, iPodTouchourthGen, iPad23G

Price: free

Version: 1.1.2

Artist: mixi, Inc

Released at: February 15, 2013

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