Japanese Web: Find Hilary Clinton’s Photo Similar To Social Game Idols

Playing on the tag challenge is one of the Japanese Twitter users’ favorites, besides super simultaneous tweets by TV watchers. There is a series of challenges that #”Send A picture, and B will be given to you”(#Aの画像を送るとそれに近いBの画像が送られてくる). As a challenge, cats, yuru-chara characters and anime idols from Idol M@aster console/social game are used well. For… Continue reading Japanese Web: Find Hilary Clinton’s Photo Similar To Social Game Idols

Perstext – Draw Text Perspectively Over Photo From Canon

Canon Marketing’s iPhone app Perstext let you decorate your photo with text in perspective way. 遠近感のある文字で写真を飾る!写真加工アプリPERSTEXT(パーステキスト) Genre: 写真/ビデオ, エンターテインメント Language: English, Japanese Price: free Version: 1.3.3 1.1.0 Artist: Canon Marketing Japan Inc. Released at: October 30, 2014 Screenshots The app supports Japanese and English but seems available only in Japanese app store so far. The… Continue reading Perstext – Draw Text Perspectively Over Photo From Canon

Photo Tweet A Minute Before Today’s Volcano Eruption Worried

A Japanese hiker @setori_ tweeted with a photo around a crater on Mt. Ontake, Nagano. 一人でのんびり御嶽山(^^) pic.twitter.com/cFzNtPuw5e — enari (@setori_) September 27, 2014 The tweet’s time 11:52 a.m is just one minute before the mountain erupted. There are no newer tweets from this person and Japanese web users are anxious. [Update] Video by another hiker… Continue reading Photo Tweet A Minute Before Today’s Volcano Eruption Worried

Yomiuri Accuses A Cook Uploads Cooking Photo On Facebook

Yomiuri Shinbun, the world’s largest newspaper, today reported a new culprit who played over food and social media photo [J]. It is the latest one on the series of the stupid social media users. This bad guy carried in his own smart phone at his workplace, a school lunch center in Nagano prefecture, took photos… Continue reading Yomiuri Accuses A Cook Uploads Cooking Photo On Facebook

Big Chainstores Troubled With Social Media Photos Of Their Stupid Part Timers

My monthly column on The Japan Times this month was about young part time workers photo troubles over Twitter. It was not possible to post the inconsiderate photos there, so I put some links for people who want to see the photos. A summary site someone collected the problematic photos [J] (because most case the… Continue reading Big Chainstores Troubled With Social Media Photos Of Their Stupid Part Timers

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

Orenoyome – Pinterest for Otaku

Oreno Yome wo Jiman suru Saito (A website to boast my wife) is a new Japanese service where to post your favorite photos of “yome”, which literally means wife, but in Otaku context, “ore no yome” means anything but your real human being wife, on which female character assigned, and on which you put your… Continue reading Orenoyome – Pinterest for Otaku

Fakes On Annular Solar Eclipse So Buzzed

Last week, Japanese Twittersphere had much debate on the topic how Twitter and social media are weak against disinformation, as a false news site Kyoko-shimbun was criticized by publishing a fake news with a real politician’s name and photo. The big astronomical event on May 21 morning gave us lots of moving photos, but it… Continue reading Fakes On Annular Solar Eclipse So Buzzed

Instagram Supports Japanese Social Networks Mixi

iPhone social camera app Instagram announced on its official Twitter account that it now supports Mixi, Japan’s largest real-side(as opposed to game-centric Gree/Mobage) social networking service. Hey Japan & Mixi users! We've added support in v2.2. Download the update to start sharing to your Mixi account now: http://t.co/FexfAJnU — Instagram (@instagram) March 1, 2012 Blog… Continue reading Instagram Supports Japanese Social Networks Mixi

Tokyo Architecture Navigator – Visit Tokyo’s 1000 Notable Buildings With iPhone

“Tokyo Kenchiku Navi/Tokyo Architecture Navigator” is a new English/Japanese bilingual iOS app by real-estate information website R-Store, which covers about 1,000 Tokyo buildings designed by architects like Tadao Ando, Arata Isozaki, Kazuyo Sejima, etc. The app contains around 3,000 photos of the buildings, information of each building such like the designer’s name, address, year established,… Continue reading Tokyo Architecture Navigator – Visit Tokyo’s 1000 Notable Buildings With iPhone