On Thursday railway operator JR Toukai announced they will offer full Wi-Fi on the N700 Shinkansen bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. This route is the most important one in Japan. Travellers will be able to access the web in all seats for the first time in Japan. The Wi-Fi connection is even supposed to… Continue reading Japanese super train Shinkansen with full Wi-Fi between Tokyo and Osaka
Month: June 2008
Firefox3 Release Party Tokyo
Celebration of new Firefox 3 launch was held at a hotel in Shinagawa, Tokyo, with over 300 people, Mozilla Japan staff, developers, translators, web designers, engineers, bloggers and others. Contributors, Mozilla’s new CEO John Lilly, Mozilla Japan chairperson Satoko Takita Firefox Ice Trophy Foxkeh!!, Japan made mascot to appeal Japanese internet users The next Firefox… Continue reading Firefox3 Release Party Tokyo
Mobile Party – mobile wedding party assistant service
Mobile Party is a website which supports Japanese wedding celemony afterparty, by utilizing atendee’s cellularphones. In Japan, usual wedding day goes with the celemony (one of Shinto, Buddism, Christian-style, etc. no matter what their religion), formal reception and casual after-party. The first two usually involves families and relatives with few close friends (the size depends… Continue reading Mobile Party – mobile wedding party assistant service
Online video and music rental deal worth $5.3 million announced in Japan
Movie and music rental store operator Geo said yesterday they plan to buy all outstanding shares from Posren (post rental), Livedoor’s online DVD rental service for 560 million Yen ($5.3 million). The deal is supposed to take place July 1st. Geo tries to close the gap to market leader Tsutaya, which operates Discas for renting… Continue reading Online video and music rental deal worth $5.3 million announced in Japan
Firefox3 Release press conference
Firefox 3 release press conference was held at Takanawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo Japan. Satoko TAKITA, chairman of Mozilla Japan gave the first announce of Firefox3 release in the morning at 2:00 a.m. 18th June (in Japan Standard Time), with looking back how they have been updating Mozilla products for years. Mozilla Japan’s two missions Firefox… Continue reading Firefox3 Release press conference
Lunascape opens subsidiary in Silicon Valley
Following Fenrir’s announcement of internationalizing their Sleipnir browser just a few days ago, now Japan-based Lunascape announced today they opened an office in the USA to promote their web browser of the same name more efficiently overseas. Lunascape, Inc. with a capital stock of 300,000 USD will be located in Silicon Valley. Founder and CEO… Continue reading Lunascape opens subsidiary in Silicon Valley
RubyKaigi will be held this week
The Japan’s biggest conference on Ruby, RubyKaigi 2008, is going to be held on 20th(fri)-22nd(sun) June. Tickets for main sessions are already sold out. However you can attend to sub-sessions, poster sessions without ticket. I will give a talk as a part of sub-session on 21st (in Japanese).
The Happy Web Weekend
On Sunday, 15th June, The Happy Web Weekend, the event around microformats/Web Standards event was held in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, with John Allsopp, microformats authority and microformats book author from Australia. Semantic Microblogging / Masahide KANZAKI Masahide KANZAKI, who is well-known by his web standards and RDF infomation website The Web KANZAKI, which has been providing… Continue reading The Happy Web Weekend
Cruise & Atlas, a very futuristic working chair with a desk
Ofcourse, you know about Aaron chair of Harman Miller. However, you probably haven’t heard about Cruise & Atlas from Okamura, a Japanese office furniture maker. Cruise & Atlas is a set of chair and desk, which is consisting a mutually dependant pair. It has a really futuristic appearance. It looks like a chair from a… Continue reading Cruise & Atlas, a very futuristic working chair with a desk
Japan’s biggest CosPlay site “Cure” overhauled with English
livedoor announced its popular Cos-Play (Costume Play, dressing up in fictional characters most of which are from Anime/Manga) site’s renewal and English localization today, June 12th 2008. The site “Cure” was opened in 2001, has been getting 300,000 registered users including 60,000 “Cos-Player”, and now 50 million page views in a month, which is the… Continue reading Japan’s biggest CosPlay site “Cure” overhauled with English