Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month

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… Continue reading Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month

[Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten

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,… Continue reading [Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten

Major Publishers, Novelists And Cartoonists Pressures Over 100 Book-Scan Agents

According to ITMedia [J], Internet Watch [J] and others, 7 major Japanese publishers (Kadokawa Shoten, Kodansha, Kobunsha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Shinchosha and Bungei Syunjyu) and 122 known authors of novels and manga reportedly sent a question letter to over 100 companies who are selling so-called “Jisui”(自炊) service. “Jisui” originally means “self cooking” in Japanese, but in… Continue reading Major Publishers, Novelists And Cartoonists Pressures Over 100 Book-Scan Agents

Nyotaigoyomi: Page-a-day Calendar Girls App

Nyotai-Goyomi (=girl’s body calendar. The word nyotai is the same one in notorious nyotai mori) is a set of girls’ photos who has date drawn somewhere on her skin. The date drawn on girls seem to be in various formats including Japanese digits. If you don’t understand Japanese date notations, these apps may be not… Continue reading Nyotaigoyomi: Page-a-day Calendar Girls App

Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days

Coca Cola Japan’s Coca Cola Park [J] is one of the most successful Facebook promotion is Japan. The original promotion site, which supports both Facebook and Mixi, embraces 10 million members, half a billion page views per month. Sugoi Jihanki (= great vendor machine) is a Facebook app provided in the Coca Cola Park. On… Continue reading Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days

Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book

It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters, but how about internet viruses? A Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii Security”, which enlightens you computer virus history since 1980’s, with over 30 infamous viruses anthropomorphized in cute anime-style characters. Which virus being personified in the book has… Continue reading Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book

New Book: Twitter Beginning Guide For Nuturing Mom

I gave up counting how many Twitter books are published in Japan. There seem to be reaching 500 soon on Amazon Japan [J]. As we already covered before, more than 5 books suggest to learn English by Twitter, of course there are Twitter manga-s. It looks like that if you include “Twitter” in your book… Continue reading New Book: Twitter Beginning Guide For Nuturing Mom

Learn English On Twitter – At Least 5 Japanese Books For That

A Japanese blogger Bricklife pointed out that there are so many Japanese books on how to learn English by Twitter published. Twitter Eigojyutsu(English Technique) A Japanese and an English authors wrote up twitter conversations among fictional characters. The characters exist on Twitter so you may follow them and read. Trying to make English tweets The… Continue reading Learn English On Twitter – At Least 5 Japanese Books For That

Softbank’s Online Magazines App Viewn Gets Bumbling Start

Although Apple’s digital publishing service iBookstore on iPad has been doing well in US, like other countries it is not really ready for Japanese iPad users. It is considered to take time to realize as local publishers are more conservative to collaborate. Sotftbank’s 100% subsidiary Viewn [J], which had been introduced by CEO Masayoshi Son,… Continue reading Softbank’s Online Magazines App Viewn Gets Bumbling Start

Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?

Kowa Computer Co. Ltd., who have been providing book publishing system for industry, revealed that they are to enter downloadable e-book market with their own smart-phone-sized device. The unique thing about their system different from Amazon Kindle and Apple iBook is, that the users will be able to download their e-book only at the retail… Continue reading Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?