This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Last Day Of Docomo 2G Cellphone Used 16 Years
• Cookpad Appoints ex-Kakaku.com Head As A New President. Current president Akimitsu Sano to concentrate on globalization and R&D
• Face Romanizer App By Popular Japanese Comic/Movie. And Face Flatterizer
• Milog Dissolved, Bashed By Privacy Tracking App/Library On Android
• Yahoo! Japan Releases Siri-like Android App For Yahoo!’s Services
• Under Severe Rainstorm Over Japan, “Play TMR” Becomes Trend Word On Twitter – TMR(T.M. Revolution) is a popular rock singer whose promotion videos are often his singing in storm.

• Dentsu Forms Virtual Organization For Global Market [En]
• LinkedIn Navi Opens [En]
• Vampire Tooth Idol Unit TKB48 Debuts, Each Wears Artificial Tooth via Akiba Keizai Shimbun

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This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Bandai To Release Pet Robot Using iPhone/iPod As Its Face, The Verge [En]

• Akihabara Event of Android Highschool

  

• Japanese Noodle Chain Runs Unique Campaign, Accept Any Expired Coupons By Other Companies – It buzzed on Japanese web a lot so it already succeeded.
• Namco Bandai Games And DeNA’s Joint Venture BNDA Renamed BNDeNA
• Docomo’s 2G Service Mova Ceases On March 31
• DeNA’s MySQL Wizard Yoshinori Matsunobu Joins To Facebook, Moved To Silicon Valley [En, his blog]
• Hon Hai(‘Foxconn) To Be The Largest Shareholder Of Sharp, Wall Street Journal [En]
• Sankei Selling Links From Its High Page-Rank Sites For SEO
• A Car Driver Uploaded His Threatening A Cycling Kid Bashed On The Web, Suicides, Sankaku Complex [En, NSFW]
• Zaku Tofu From Gundam
• Cellphone Connection On Tokyo Metro Starts On March 30 – though most Japanese train do not allow passengers to talk, this change will make big change on how mobile websites for commuters are designed.
• Japan’s Government Fund Invest 15 Billion Yen To Shuppan Digital Kikou, e-Book Consortium Of Most Japanese Publishers
• e-Commerce App Provider Aratana Funded 100 Million Yen By JAFCO
• Hulu Japan Gets Contents From TV Tokyo – The first from major networks, but TV Tokyo is the most unpopular among 5 networks. Let’s see if other networks, each of who runs its own on-demand service, follow or not.
• National Election Gazette To Be Allowed On The Web. – What? Yes, it was prohibited.
• IBM Japan Lost Lawsuit On Failed Banking System Project
• Two Male Twitter Users Arrested By Posting Female Nude Photos As Theirs – It is untold what level of nudity did those images had.
• Greeting Card App On LINE(New Skype-rival) Released, Gets #1 On 5 Asian Appstores
• Perfume Releases Their Dance Data For Developers on GitHub

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This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Fujitsu And Nagoya Univ Develops A Technlogy Detects If You Are Being Deceived By Your Voice
• A Man Made 250 Banknotes To Slanderous Leaflets Arrested
• Japanese Cellphone Earthquake Alert Arranged In Orchestra

  After the Eastern Japan Disaster, people are familiar with the jingle.

• AKB48 To Form Google+-Selected Sub-group
• AKB48 CAFÉ＆SHOP HAKATA, official site
• GREE x Family Mart x Calbee collaboration original potato chips “Carbonara”
• McDonalds Japan To Introduce Cellphone Pre-order System, Reduces 40% Of Transaction Time
• Web Platform Liaison Council Formed By Mixi/DeNA/Gree/CyberAgent/NHN Japan/Dwango For Appropriate Operations
• Wilcom’s New Cellphone Only Works As A Door Sensor. 525 Yen Per Month – notify you when the door opened unexpectedly
• Live Vocaloid Performances Now Possible With The Yamaha Vocaloid Keyboard [En]
• Smartphone User Passes 25% In Japan, D2C Research
• Goo’s Location-based Q&A Service PinQA Is Renewed
• Japanese Download Site Vector Got Hacked, 261,161 User Info Possibly Leaked

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This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Japanese French Talkbook Features All Sex-related Words
• A Japanese Woman Who’s Claim Possibly Let Amazon Japan Ban Pedophile Comic Magazine, Turned Out To Be A Rival Exporter – 2-channelers tracked her down from Twitter
• Steve Jobs Told Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, “The New iPad Is Far Better”, as Son says
• Japan’s Live Escape Game Goes To San Francisco [En]
• New Traffic Signal In Okayama Talks To Red-light Runner In Girl’s Voice

  (audio uploaded on YouTube)

  Will you stop red-light run if a signal asks you to stop?

• Argument Satiety Technology Lets You Feel Your Eating Food Bigger Than Reality via Engadget Japan

  

  You might be satisfied with a small Oreo if you can see and feel it as a big Oreo.

• Yahoo! Mobage Passes 7 Million Users
• New Uniqlo Shop vs New iPad Waiting Line In Ginza: 1000 vs 400
• Cookpad Chinese Clone
• Hair Message Art By Aozoratei via Excitebit

  

  A wife has been writing words by her husband’s long hair for decade.

• Blogger.com Changing Japanese Blogs Address To .Jp Domain Resets All Social Media References

Potter’s Wheel pose buzz

• 2-channelers Point Out That IT People Spinning Potter’s Wheel Too Much On Public Photos

  Potters Wheel Spinners in IT industry

  

  Potter’s Wheel Spinners With Psycic Ball

  
• A Web Industry Person Who Really Spins Potter’s Wheel
• Air Potter’s Wheel Song Made On Nico Nico Douga

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This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Tokyo Metropolitan Police To Begin Twitter For Disaster-Releaf Planned In 2012
• Kanazawa College of Art Enrollment and Graduate by the same students. via @U2game_Sawagi

  

  

• Iine Manga With Mecha-Zuckerburg – The title is “Iine Kojiki(begger)”. “Iine” is “Like” on Japanese Facebook.

  

• Applise – Android App Review For Japanese Women Opens via MyNavi
• Drug Dealing Community On Mixi Exposed
• Click Affiliate Program Heso-click Shuts Down Without Advanced Notice

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