This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Fujitsu And Nagoya Univ Develops A Technlogy Detects If You Are Being Deceived By Your Voice A Man Made 250 Banknotes To Slanderous Leaflets Arrested Japanese Cellphone Earthquake Alert Arranged In… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 12
Month: March 2012
New Social Game For GREE Based On Popular Novel / Anime “The Legend of Galactic Heroes”
Darts Live Games [J] has initiated advance registration the feature phone game for GREE “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu ~ Ginga Teikoku Hen ~” [J] (The Legend of Galactic Heroes ~ Galaxy Empire), a social game with the theme of “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu,” an animation based on Tanaka Yoshiki’s popular novel. The animation “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu” is… Continue reading New Social Game For GREE Based On Popular Novel / Anime “The Legend of Galactic Heroes”
Social Game For “Shingeki no Kyojin” By Konami Coming This Spring
KONAMI [J] has announced that they will distribute a social game for Mobage modeled after the manga “Shingeki no Kyojin” (Giant Advance) from this Spring. Advanced registration will commence in Japan. “Shingeki no Kyojin” is Izayama Hajime‘s original manga for Kodansha’s separate volume boys comic magazine which has been running since October of 2009. In… Continue reading Social Game For “Shingeki no Kyojin” By Konami Coming This Spring
“ngi group” Changes Name To “Motion Beat”
ngi group [J] has announced at today’s meeting of the board of directors that they have resolved to change their firm name to “Motion Beat,” as a condition of the acknowledgement of the modification of one section of their company statute at the meeting of stockholders to be held on June 22nd. ngi group set… Continue reading “ngi group” Changes Name To “Motion Beat”
Experiment: Can You Identify Twitter Users In Tokyo?
A Japanese column media Omocoro [J] ran an interesting test in Shibuya, one of the most crowded area in Tokyo. A writer Sebuyama tries to find a random person whose tweets show he/she is in Shibuya. All 3 target were picked up from search by “Shibuya nau(=now in Shibuya)” on Twitter, which sometimes could be… Continue reading Experiment: Can You Identify Twitter Users In Tokyo?
Gree Ties Up With Dentsu On Global Promotion
Gree announced today [J] that it and Dentsu, Japan’s advertising agency giant, agreed on business cooperation around Gree’s global business. The business partnership includes the worldwide promotion of Gree social networking service, acquiring of contents and start-up investment.
Mixi And DeNA Launches Social Commerce Platform Mixi Mall
Mixi and DeNA announced today that they launch a new social commerce service Mixi Mall As you might know, the two of Japan’s top three social networking services, Mixi and Mobage are run by these two companies. Mixi is the counterpart of Facebook in Japan, Mobage is like Zynga having its own social networking. Whilst… Continue reading Mixi And DeNA Launches Social Commerce Platform Mixi Mall
New Company “All Nippon Entertainment Works” To Bring Japanese Content Overseas
Kabushikigaisha Sangyou Kakushin Kikou [J] (Industry Innovation Organization Inc.) has announced the establishment and 6 billion yen investment into the new company “All Nippon Entertainment Works Inc.”, with the intention to open sales of all domestic Japanese content overseas. All Nippon Entertainment Works is an enterprise geared towards the overseas marketing of Japanese content with… Continue reading New Company “All Nippon Entertainment Works” To Bring Japanese Content Overseas
Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords
Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that its PC version top page, the most accessed page in Japan, starts offering the top three trending keywords from Twitter, named with “Wadai Nau”(nau=now, current topics) As you see, the place the keywords showed is just under the top news box (from Yahoo! News), the prime… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords
CyberAgent Releases Android Application “Pigg Talk”
CyberAgent [J] has released the Android application “Pigg Talk.” [J] In concert with this, the functions of the smart phone version of Ameba Pigg [J] have also been enhanced. Download is free. “Pigg Talk” is an application that allows group chat with companion “Pigg Tomo” friends from within Ameba Pigg. It works in conjunction with… Continue reading CyberAgent Releases Android Application “Pigg Talk”