mixi, Inc. [J] has announced the termination of service for “mixi coworker’s network” and mixi video [J] on the SNS “mixi.”

Service for “Mixi coworker’s network” began in June of 2010, and it allows you to find coworkers who register their place of work at the same company as yourself.  Also, “Mixi video” is Mixi’s own video sharing function which opened in February of 2007, and it allowed users to upload videos and paste them onto their profile or diary entries.  However according to the company, because both services are falling short of their expectations for user numbers, they came to the conclusion that they should focus their attentions on other communication services and bring these to a close.  “Mixi coworker’s network” will close service on May 23rd (Thurs.), and “Mixi video” will halt new video posts from May 23rd and terminate service at the end of July.  Also, from June (planned), they will offer a service that allows download of posted video data.

Translation authorized by VSMedia

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They are not artists, just regular Japanese mostly girls idol fans who buy tickets, chant and dance from auditorium to try to let their icons recognize them. Their performance is called “Otagei” (オタ芸 = Otaku + Gei, act/art).

You may easily imagine that many other regular audience do not welcome their space-taking, sometimes annoying moves and noises, but this one seemed to make even people dislike them impressed.

via 2ch

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Sony Headphone’s official new promotion in Japan is movies on its YouTube channel. Not sounds new? But 47 girls from each prefecture dancing with the headphone at tourist places and/or with local products.

The Headphone Joshi(girls) 47 meets Extra Bass.

Recap

Tokyo girl / Tokyo Sky Tree

Wakayama girls / Wakayama Catsle

Kanawgawa girl / Yokohama Yamashita Park, near Chinatown

and more and more if you like them.

Thanks to @buru

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Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo waterfront releases an educational video “How to count combinations”.

The story at the beginning seems relaxed, however, as @iwiwi introduced as “crazy”, it goes too much and may frighten kids if you do not use better math.

The video comes with English subtexts. Enjoy.

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Japanese social network giant Mixi collaborates with the large summer festival of gals under the name of “Campus Summit 2012 meets mixi”.

According to the event page, Campus Summit is a summer festivals for and by college students, which began in 1995 in Tokyo. At largest, the festivals were held at 57 locations in all 47 prefectures.

This year, Campus Summit theme is set as “Minna Maimiku Matsuri”(Festival to become Mixi-friends With everyone) and all staffs and events attendees are supposed to be connected on Mixi during this “User Attending Real 2.0 Event”.

The official Mixi page of the event has over 80,000 followers.

The event’s theme song this year is “Minna Maimiku”(Everyone, Mixi Friends) by charisma readers models Yumachi and Aina, with 7 year-old girl DJ Mikan.

The song has many Mixi-related words and phrases in its lyrics. For example,

“One, Two, Minna Maimikuuuu”

“Minna Maimiku Revolution”

“Takamare ba (Nau), Ochikomi ha (Wazu)”

Which means, “When excited write it on Mixi Voice, when getting down write it on Mixi Voice. “Nau”(now) and “Wazu”(was) are English-originated buzzwords used to express “I’m doing ～” and “I was ~” on short message services like Twitter, Ameba Now and Mixi Voice among some type of people in Japan.

“Minna Maimiku (Yeah Yeah) Generation”

“Messe to iu nano, Mahou no jumon de, Kizuna ga umareru, saa yume wo kanaeyouyo!”

“Magic spell in the name of message makes your bonds, let’s dreams come true!”

The readers model gals seem to dance at Mixi’s headquarter in Shibuya.

Found by net-savvy users (including me), the video seems to be down-voted a lot now on YouTube…

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