Yahoo Japan Corporation [J] has begun to offer “WONDER!,” [J] a SNS specialized in posting images and a place to express Japanese sub-culture such as figures and cosplay. “WONDER” is a service that first commercialized from the new business proposal system “Softbank Inoventure,” in which Softbank Group widely recruits employee’s ideas and aims to create… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Opens Figurine and Cosplay SNS “WONDER”
Month: February 2013
Colopl And Disney Release Location Based Card Battle Game “Disney Magician Chronicles”
Colopl Inc. [J] has released the Android smartphone card RPG app featuring Disney characters, Disney Magician Chronicles [J] in cooperation with Walt Disney Japan Inc. [J]. Download is free. “Disney Magician Chronicles” is a game where the user becomes a magic academy student and summons the power of Disney friends, embarking on adventure to seek… Continue reading Colopl And Disney Release Location Based Card Battle Game “Disney Magician Chronicles”
3D Robot Customize Simulation Game “Damascus Gear” Released For Mobage
Arc System Works, Inc. [J] have released the Android version of “Damascus Gear” [J], a customized robot simulation game for Mobage. “Damascus Gear” is a customizable robot simulation game set in the distant future where humankind is are faced with a life and death crisis from renegade robots known as “Gear.” The player drives his… Continue reading 3D Robot Customize Simulation Game “Damascus Gear” Released For Mobage
Create A Player From A Barcode With “Barcode Footballer”
Cybird, Inc. [J] has released the iOS application “Barcode Footballer” [J]. Barcode Footballer is an original soccer training game where the user becomes a soccer club coach, trains the players, devises the tactics, and aims to be the number one soccer club in the world. About 3 trillion players are created from reading barcodes in… Continue reading Create A Player From A Barcode With “Barcode Footballer”
Japan’s Largest Travel Agency JTB Allies With Expedia
JTB, Japan’s largest travel agency, announced [J] that it agreed with Air Asia Expedia, Asia-Pacific arm of Expedia jointly run with Air Asia, on comprehensive alliance, expected to sell 150,000 hotels of Expedia to Japanese customers, 7,000 domestic hotels to Expedia oversea customers. Those hotels are planned to show up at earliest Autumn on JTB… Continue reading Japan’s Largest Travel Agency JTB Allies With Expedia
Keio Univ Uses Sudoku On Entrance Exam
Keio University is reported to ask Sudoku solution on its entrance exam, a Twitter user reported with a photo. https://twitter.com/t2_823/status/303704860333850624 There is an additional rule added so no pure Sudoku though. via ITMedia
LLVM Guide For Dummies, Or Kitsune-san
Japanese software e-book publishers Tatsujin Shuppankai [J] (Master’s Publishing Association – could not find if they have an official English name) published a book about LLVM compiler, “Kitsune-san demo Wakaru LLVM”(LLVM even fox-san can understand) by Motipizza [J]. Machine translation of the book description is here, This is LLVM was born I think this document… Continue reading LLVM Guide For Dummies, Or Kitsune-san
Facebook Japan Lost 13% Users Last Week
Facebook’s own advertising tool (and Socialbakers who records its chronological changes) showed that the number of active users in Japan dropped to 13.8 million on Feb. 19, 2 million down from 15.85 million on the former week. It was 12.9% down as low as the end of August 2012. From the peak, 17.1 million on… Continue reading Facebook Japan Lost 13% Users Last Week
Amazon Japan Now Accept Suica, Mobile e-Money Issued 36-Million By East Japan Railway
East Japan Railway, the nation’s largest railway company covers eastern Honshu (the main island of Japan) including Tokyo and around area, announced [J] that Amazon Japan (and its online shoes shop Javari) accepts their Suica e-money immediately from release day, February 19th. Suica has been issued 38.88 million at the end of March 2012, 36.57… Continue reading Amazon Japan Now Accept Suica, Mobile e-Money Issued 36-Million By East Japan Railway
Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month
Mixi released iPhone/Android free app Nohana [J] today. The app is a camera application with backend photo storage web service. Every month, you get one free photobook (stamp fee 90-yen = $1 required though) made from your taking photos. The book will have 28 pages with 20 photos. They said that their business model is… Continue reading Mixi Launches Smartphone Photo App Sends You Free Photobook Every Month