A Team [J] has released the Android applications Kumamon’s Simple Clock Widget, Kumamon Full! [Kumamon’s Clock Widget], and Kumamon’s Live Wallpaper♪, based on Kumamon, Kumamoto Prefecture’s tourism PR mascot and champion of last year’s Mascot Character Grand Prix 2011. Download is 200 yen each. Kumamon is a character born out of Kumamoto Prefecture office’s shinkansen… Continue reading Kyushu Mascot Character “Kumamon” Android Apps Released
Month: March 2012
GREE – Written Complaint Against Article Published In “Diamond” Magazine
GREE [J] has announced that they have submitted a written protest concerning an article published in the 2012 March 31st edition of the magazine “Shuukan Diamond” entitled “This Office Is Gravely Concerned For GREE – Social Games Approaching Critical Moment.” According to GREE, the article in question offers to readers the impression that GREE is… Continue reading GREE – Written Complaint Against Article Published In “Diamond” Magazine
Mark Zuckerberg’s Surprise Appearance At Mobile Hack Tokyo, Also A Meeting With Prime Minister
Mark Zuckerberg is showing up at the event in Tokyo now. The event is Facebook Mobile Hack Tokyo [J] at Tokyo Midtown, Roppongi. Photos by @ken_b4u, http://twitpic.com/92rfn1 http://twitpic.com/92ridj [Update 4] A Japanese Facebook user recorded when Zuckerberg appeared. You see how the attendees (expected someone else) were surprised. [Update][Update 3] Some Twitter users tweeted that… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg’s Surprise Appearance At Mobile Hack Tokyo, Also A Meeting With Prime Minister
Social Gift Service “mixi Birthday” Delivers Half A Million Virtual Cakes In First Week
Frenxxo, Inc. [J] has announced that the total number of greetings sent by the social gift service “mixi Birthday” [J] within one week of its release has exceeded half a million. “mixi Birthday” is a service which allows you to present mixi friends with digital birthday cakes and decoration items (free / for a fee)… Continue reading Social Gift Service “mixi Birthday” Delivers Half A Million Virtual Cakes In First Week
App Store #1 Ranking “Gang Road” Social Card Game Offered For Mobage
CyberAgent’s consolidated subsidiary company Appli bot, [J] who plan and manage applications for smartphone, have released the social card game “Furyoudou~Gang Road~”, which held the #1 ranking top seller for Japan’s App Store, for Mobage. “Gang Road” is based around the concept of a “scoundrel’s passion story game.” Set in the corners and alleys of… Continue reading App Store #1 Ranking “Gang Road” Social Card Game Offered For Mobage
2-channel Possessor Singaporean Company Is Dummy, Yomiuri Reports
Yomiuri Shimbun reported on March 27 that they had researched the ownership of 2-channel, Japanese gigantic anonymous bulletin board service, in Singapore, and resulted the self-claimed current owner Packet Monster Inc. in Singapore, is a paper company, one of 2,000 companies registered under Rikvin Consultance, whose address is the same as the Packet Monster, at… Continue reading 2-channel Possessor Singaporean Company Is Dummy, Yomiuri Reports
Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global
We have covered the Japanese social game industry to some extent on Asiajin over the last years, and I myself do so in more detail on my personal site. In recent months, the two biggest companies in this space, DeNA and GREE, have invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in bringing the concept of… Continue reading Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global
Google Japan Runs AKB48 Commercial For Galaxy Nexus, Which Is Almost Free On Shop
Google is airing a commercial of its Android reference handset Galaxy Nexus, with AKB48, who is the top girls idol group, who also cooperates on Google+ promotion in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZW2R9fPp-o The commercial song is sung by the selected members of AKB48 for Google+, called “Gugutasu Senbatsu”(Gugu = abbrev of Google, tasu=to add, senbatsu=selection) Gugutasu is… Continue reading Google Japan Runs AKB48 Commercial For Galaxy Nexus, Which Is Almost Free On Shop
GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies
GREE has announced that they will strengthen measures pertaining to actions relating to Real Money Trade (RMT) which is prohibited by the user agreement of the SNS “GREE.” They will continue, throughout the entire company, to promote such measures as suspending user accounts which violate the user agreement and checking incidents within and outside of… Continue reading GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies
Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person
Tokyo District Court issued a decision of provisional disposition on March 19 for Google to remove specific search results on its suggested keywords feature around a name of a male who sued Google that the search results infringed his privacy, according to the layer of him, Mainichi reported [J] ([update 2012-03-27] Mainichi English posted the… Continue reading Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person