March 2012 – Page 3

Japan’s Web News Week 11

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. Japanese French Talkbook Features All Sex-related Words http://twitpic.com/8vpr5e A Japanese Woman Who’s Claim Possibly Let Amazon Japan Ban Pedophile Comic Magazine, Turned Out To Be A Rival Exporter – 2-channelers tracked… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 11

Japan’s Web News Week 10

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. Tokyo Metropolitan Police To Begin Twitter For Disaster-Releaf Planned In 2012 Kanazawa College of Art Enrollment and Graduate by the same students. via @U2game_Sawagi Iine Manga With Mecha-Zuckerburg – The title… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 10

Finnish Embassy Runs Personified Finland Illustration Contest On Twitter

Finish embassy in Japan, who recently runs a Twitter account(@FinEmbTokyo) with folksy tweets and getting popular by showing deep understandings to Japanese subcultures. On February, they introduced to its followers Suomi-neito, a personified Finnish land, and soon later by getting feedback, began an official Suomi-neito illustration contest. On March 1 2012, Finnish embassy awarded a… Continue reading Finnish Embassy Runs Personified Finland Illustration Contest On Twitter

Sumitomo To Export Online Pharmacy Soukai Drug To China And Indonesia

Sumitomo Corporation announced on March 7 that their online pharmacy Soukai Drug (soukai = briskness in Japanese) is going to expand into China and Indonesia this year. Their Shanghai and Jakarta subsidiaries are already set up. Trial in Shanghai is planned to begin in late April, Jakarta service will start in late August.

3 yo Girl’s Hatsune Miku Performance

“PoPiPo” sung and danced by Chibi(=mini) Miku. The original song on Nico Nico Douga, http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5508956 CG (MMD) version, via Insidears [J]

[Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten

Gayle L McDowell’s book “The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company” is translated to Japanese and sold in Japan this month. The cover image of the Japanese version book posted by a blogger Yumaendo got a huge buzz on Facebook,… Continue reading [Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten

[Video] Siri Japanese vs Docomo’s Shabette Concier

iPhone’s voice navigation Siri recently added Japanese support. Japan’s largest telco NTT Docomo had released Android app “Shabette Concier”(or “Konsheru” from Japanese notation, abbrev of concierge) on March 1, just before the Siri Japanese launch. Here is a video by Japanese YouTube user ysm7651 compare the two side by side. More of the watchers’ impressions… Continue reading [Video] Siri Japanese vs Docomo’s Shabette Concier

Android Contactless-RFID Controlled Rice Cooker By Panasonic

Panasonic’s new SR-SX2 Series (SR-SX102-RK black, SR-SX-102-W white, SR-SX182-RK black/large, SR-SX182-W white/large) is the Japan’s first, and I believe the world’s first, smartphone-controlled rice cooker. On top of the all high-end features such like “200 Celsius degree steam”, “Great-power dancing boil(Dai karyoku odori-daki)”, “Diamond Furnace(Daiyamondo Kamado)”, it newly supports settings-by-smartphone. Holding your FeliCa supported Android… Continue reading Android Contactless-RFID Controlled Rice Cooker By Panasonic

“E★EVERYSTAR” Surpasses 100 Creator Book Publications And 3 Million Electonic Book App DLs

DeNA [J] and its subsidiary company Everystar, who manage the novel and comic submission community “E★EVERYSTAR,” [J] have reached 100 volumes of creator works open to the public that have been published, and they have also announced that the total number of downloads of their read all you like electronic book application has eclipsed 3… Continue reading “E★EVERYSTAR” Surpasses 100 Creator Book Publications And 3 Million Electonic Book App DLs