Continued from (Part 2). Last part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article.
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Akihabara Free-Of-Vehicle Sunday Held First Time In 2.5 Years Since Serial Killer Incident
- Many Ameblo Celebrity Bloggers Found To Write Their Successful Purchases On Penny Auction Services – More details
- National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan(NCAC) Alerts About Penny Auction Services via Sankei
- Cut Apple Vending Machine [En] – Banana’s one [En]
- Jiji Press Reporter Copies An Article From Kyodo News But Forget Erasing The “(Kyodo)” Credit At The End
- Small Spa Town in Nagano Gets New Visitors By Mimicing A Town In A Game
- Akihabara Hobby PC Assemble Space With Maid Massage
- Microsoft Taiwan collaborate with Japanese illustration SNS pixiv
- Facebook Japanese Active Users Passed 2 Million (on Socialbakers)
- Softbank Introduces Android Market Payment Integration On Their Cellphone Bills – it was the key for Japanese mobile services on feature phone being so profitable. it should affect good on Android, too.
- Toppan, Intel and Bitway to e-book store BookLive!
- KDDI au to start simulcast service of 52 FM radio stations for their smartphone subscribers. – chasing Radiko[En]
- Yahoo! Japan Records Strongest Q3 Sales And Profits Ever
- SoftBank rents iPad in Special school gratis
- URL Shortener Makes An URL In Japanese Phrase “I’ll Kill (your custom subdomain)”
- Takafumi Horie’s Groupon Clone Hangaku Tokyo To Launch Hangaku Bankok For Thai via Horie’s tweet
- Shared – Facebook Hot Entries Ranking – It counts most shared URLs from Japanese Facebook users.
- Rakuten Recipe Aims To Take Over The Top From Cookpad By The End Of 2011 – “That would be bad news for cookpad.”(@Serkan)
- Tenga Gift Service
- prime minister’s blog had an English version – it was not much announced to Japanese.
- Smart.fm To Be Changed Back To iKnow!. they are changing to a 100% paid service from march 31
- “Let it Sleep”—The smartphone application that can tape somniloquy
- Google Japan Defends Google Maps Showing Hanged Underware Against A Japanese Suer
- Google Translate Hates Facebook
- [Groupon issue] Flash Magazine Reports Groupon Japan Sales Increased Overlimit Coupons Without Shops’ Permission
- KDDI Releases CMs Critisize Softbank – 1, 2, 3
- Research: 79% Of Japanese Facebook Users (who are already using it) Use Real Name. 18% Think Facebook Will Be Widely Used In Japan
- Shiseido Runs J/E Bilingual Makeup Streaming Program For Asia via Markezine
- AR Fishing Toy Virtual-Masters-Real
- AmebaPigg Users broke through 6M, Virtual currency supply is about 600 million yen scale during month.
- Anime Usavich Car And Twitter Campaign Around Japan
- The China’s Imitation Gundam Statue Comes Back To Be Original – Kotaku covered[En]
- Japanese Version Of Baidu Library Blamed As Piracy – Nobuyuki Idei(ex-Sony CEO) Tweets He Would Discuss Baidu Library Copyright Issue At Board Meeting
- RecoCheck – Recruit Enters Geo Location Service via TechCrunch Japan
- SoftBank made SMS with Egypt free.
- Japan Ground Self Defense Force Enters Simple Game Competition, Both On PC And Mobile via Slashdot Japan
- “The Social Network” Movie ranked 3rd In 3rd Week
- Digital Garage Invests in US Mobile social network Path
- Nobot partners with Smaato
- Luna Luna Passed 2 Million Paid Members, Added French/German/Chinese/Korean Versions – Asiajin’s cover on Luna Luna
- Facebook Japanese Official Page Ranking
- Kids Comic Magazine (Weekly Sunday) Website Sets Interactive Nipple Hitting Button For Application Form – hard hitting takes you to an application form
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
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