Japan’s upper house election campaign period began on 24th June. Internet updates during election has been banned in Japan. It was a discussion to legalize blog updates (but not Twitter, funny how they tried to draw line between them) recently, but it could not make this time in time. According to J-Cast [J], incumbent upper… Continue reading Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter
Year: 2010
June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
First half of (June) news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Ustream Only Women Pro Wrestling Starts Softbank’s Viewn Starts With Server Trouble. Masayoshi Son Tweets They Are Adding 10 Times More Servers Viewn Stops, Decupling Servers Failed, Son… Continue reading June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
2 Tokyo College Students Expelled By Uploading Video “Save The Ugly Girls” On YouTube
Two male senior students of Tokyo Metropolitan University uploading a series of movies on YouTube under the name of “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai”(Save The Ugly Girls Club) early this month rapidly called a strong reactions from Japanese society. June 12th at Tachikawa station, those guys asked ladies few pictures with lying it was for magazine,… Continue reading 2 Tokyo College Students Expelled By Uploading Video “Save The Ugly Girls” On YouTube
Evernote Gets Bigger, Opens Office in Japan
Evernote‘s press conference was held in Tokyo on 23rd June, just one day before their second anniversary. At the conference, Evernote’s CEO Phil Libin, who was visiting Tokyo, announced a lot of new things for their Japanese users. 1. Japan branch They opened a 100% subsidiary, Evernote Japan. Evernote’s vice president Takeshi Nakajima, who worked… Continue reading Evernote Gets Bigger, Opens Office in Japan
Japanese Venture Capital Investments Take Nosedive in 2009
Japan’s venture capital industry is in a very difficult situation. That’s, in a nutshell, the result of a recent Nikkei survey. According to the paper, investments from the nation’s top 20 VC firms dropped a whopping 40% in fiscal 2009 to $711 million. Compared to 2007, that’s even 50% less. To be more concrete, the… Continue reading Japanese Venture Capital Investments Take Nosedive in 2009
Join The Open Web Asia Conference In Malaysia On July 13-14 (Discount For Asiajin Readers)
It’s about time that South East Asia, home to 600 million people, gets its own web industry event. The Open Web Asia conference, which is going to be held in Kuala Lumpur on July 13-14, is the region’s first of its size: no less than 350 attendees are expected – I myself will be at… Continue reading Join The Open Web Asia Conference In Malaysia On July 13-14 (Discount For Asiajin Readers)
The 2010 Most Popular Company For Japanese Job Seekers Is Google
Japanese outplacement firm Intelligence [J] released their research of what companies people want to join next [J], done on 5,000 of office workers between age 25 to 34. On the ranking, Google jumped up from 2009’s third position because of good feeling to their “innovation” and “potential”. 2010 Rank in 2009 Company 1 3 Google… Continue reading The 2010 Most Popular Company For Japanese Job Seekers Is Google
Learn Javascript In Manga
Manga de wakaru JavaScript Programming Kouza(The manga guide to JavaScript Programming Course) is an online web manga (Japanese style comic) for novice programmers to study JavaScript programming language by themselves. In a story, three high-school students learn JavaScript from a teacher in a year. 4 Chapters, 23 sections, 153 pages this manga covers the basics… Continue reading Learn Javascript In Manga
May 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. ClapClap Clock – Handclap Triggered Sound Clock iPhone App A Blogger Accuses The Ruling Party DPJ To Censor Twitter, Without Knowing Twitter Search In Japanese Is Kind Of Broken Domino Pizza Campaign In Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Singapore Seesmic CEO Loic… Continue reading May 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Rakuten Subsidizes French No.1 E-Commerce Company PriceMinister
Rakuten has just announced [J, pdf] that they bought 100% of French E-commerce company PriceMinister S.A. The purchase is planned to done in July 2010 for 200 million Euro (22.5 billion yen). Rakuten established their European branch S.a.r.l. in Luxembourg in 2008. That company will handle this acquisition. Rakuten has been actively adding its oversea… Continue reading Rakuten Subsidizes French No.1 E-Commerce Company PriceMinister