Yesterday KDDI, one of Japan’s many telecommunications powerhouses, held a press conference in Tokyo to present the so-called “au BOX” to the general public for the first time. “au” is KDDI’s cell phone brand and the reason why the company can call itself Japan’s second biggest cell phone carrier. Based on the Motorola VIP1830 IP,… Continue reading au BOX: KDDI, Motorola and Opera intro new multimedia terminal in Japan
Month: September 2008
The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008
We Asiajin weblog is built on WordPress, open source blog system on PHP/MySQL. Today I attended the WordPress event WordCamp Tokyo 2008, the first ever WordCamp held in Japan. On a half day conference at Digital Hollywood Shibuya, to over 60 attendees 10 speakers made development/customization presentations, WordPress history case study in high school useful… Continue reading The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008
paiTouch – Virtual Boob Simulator comes to iPhone
Blogger technohippy has released paiTouch, the third generation of his series of Oppai (Boob) Simulators, now for the iPhone. Using the app, you can freely touch a virtual boob on the iPhone’s Safari browser. For the software to be used on the iPhone, technohippy’s application was ported from Flash technology to JavaScript. The application also… Continue reading paiTouch – Virtual Boob Simulator comes to iPhone
Zozoresort: Japan’s virtual fashion town for young people
Japanese people who want a (window-)shopping experience don’t really need brick and mortar businesses, at least not in the fashion realm. They can simply access Zozo, a shopping web site that boasts over 1 million registered users (in other words: potential buyers), half of whom are male. What sets Zozo apart from other shopping portals… Continue reading Zozoresort: Japan’s virtual fashion town for young people
A report of ESPer2008 conference
ESPer2008 conference has been held with 100+ attendees in Shinagawa, Tokyo at 14th September 2008. ESPer is a conference held by alumni of the Mitoh software grant (Exploratory Software Project) (in English). The Mitoh is a grant by Japanese government which is given to individual software developers. There are around thousand Mitoh alumni in Japan… Continue reading A report of ESPer2008 conference
Mobage Town launched World-wide English Service MobaMingle
DeNA Global, 100% subsidiary of DeNA, who runs Mobage Town, the Japan’s biggest mobile social networking site with casual games, started its global service MobaMingle . DeNA Global is located in California, USA, but the MobaMingle can be accessed from 70 countries, including UK, France, Germany on cellular phone. Access from Japan is blocked so… Continue reading Mobage Town launched World-wide English Service MobaMingle
Web-Kare – Virtual Boyfriends Social Network
LinkThink released a new social networking service “Web Kare – wonderful boys and lovely maiden story” featuring dating simulation game targetting female on 10th September, and gained over 10,000 users registered only in 5 days. On the service, you will spend a virtual school life with 4 young boys, while communicating other users. Like as… Continue reading Web-Kare – Virtual Boyfriends Social Network
Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
Wall Street Journal reported about how iPhone is not going well in Japan market. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone’s release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately. Well, in Japan, the hype was somehow “produced”. As far as I heard, Softbank gathered 1,500 iPhone… Continue reading Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 2: How to use
UPDATE 31/12/2010: We wrote a completely new English guide on how to use Nico Nico Douga (click here), so please ignore the version below! We also offer a new English guide on how to register for Nico Nico Douga (click here). The following screenshots explain how to get around on Japanese video site Nico Nico… Continue reading English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 2: How to use
English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 1: How to register
UPDATE 31/12/2010: We wrote a completely new English guide on how to register for Nico Nico Douga (click here), so please ignore the version below. We also offer a new English guide on how to get around on the site (click here). Japanese uber video portal Nico Nico Douga (all posts on Asiajin) recently launched… Continue reading English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 1: How to register