Japan’s Most Annoying Website To Be Shut Down Soon

ITMedia reports that the notorious website of Aiseikai Hospital is planned to be closed within 2 months, a son of the hospital head revealed on his Twitter account @miya_blu_swing. The tweet [J] has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. The screenshot above can not show you the vividness of the site. You should check it… Continue reading Japan’s Most Annoying Website To Be Shut Down Soon

Gree Games With Users Who Trying To Leave Away

On a CGM Curation site Naver Matome, there is a funny list [J] how people are complaining how Gree, one of Japan’s largest social game networking service, makes its member withdrawal process difficult. Here is the resigning form page which I could find from their help. (on smartphone version. their main feature phone site and… Continue reading Gree Games With Users Who Trying To Leave Away

Yahoo! Japan Testing Office Version For Enterprise Workers

The dominant portal/search Yahoo! Japan is testing a customized portal for office workers. On Yahoo! Japan’s top page, which is the most viewed page in Japan by the way, a new button “Office Version” is showed up at the best position on the top banner menu. Once you clicked it, your Yahoo top page is… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Testing Office Version For Enterprise Workers

IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow

Researchers at IBM Research – Tokyo is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices. With the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can drag-and-drop the connected arrows that will lead the screen reader in an arbrary order. You can even adjust the granularity of the… Continue reading IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow

Japanese Mobile Design Showcase

Mobile Design Archive is a new blog where over 400 Japanese cellphone websites screenshot are collected. Because of historical and security reasons, many mobile websites are not accessible from PCs in Japan, some are blocked by browser IP address, others are referring cellphone unique id. So taking screenshots of mobile sites are not easy as… Continue reading Japanese Mobile Design Showcase