Yahoo! Mobage, a joint social game networking service for PC run by Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan and mobile social game giant DeNA, starts a present campaign celebrating its 6 million users registration. If you play any games on Yahoo! Mobage first in time, and purchase anything on selected stores on Yahoo! Shopping, you… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage Celebrates 6 Million Uses Registration
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie To Start Mahjong Comic From Jail
Takafumi Horie, an ex-Livedoor CEO who is in Jail since June 9 this year in violation of the Securities and Exchange Law, aka Horienmon, was announced to start a new manga series on fortnightly mahjong (wikipedia) comic magazine Kindai Mahjong [J]. There are two mahjong-only comic magazines in Japan. People playing mahjong is decreasing, but… Continue reading ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie To Start Mahjong Comic From Jail
Rakuten To Shut Down 6 Million Users Zenryaku Profile
Nikkei reports [J] that Rakuten has decided to close its Zenryaku Profile, a social networking site having 6.4 million users and runs for about decade, even before the word “social networking service” established. The site was originally run by other company, moved under Rakuten when it purchased a company who owned the service. Different from… Continue reading Rakuten To Shut Down 6 Million Users Zenryaku Profile
Muji Launches Social Game Muji Life For Global
Toshima-ku/Tokyo-based Japanese consumer goods brand Muji (Mujirushi Ryohin), who operates about 300 shops in over 20 countries around the world, starts a social game Muji Life on November 15 (release [J]). You may join the game by either of three social networking services, Facebook, Twitter and Mixi. You will create your shelf with your favorite… Continue reading Muji Launches Social Game Muji Life For Global
Prosthetic Limbs Aiming Artificial Beauty
Shunji Yamanaka, a well-known Japanese industrial designer and Keio University professor showed a photo of his developing artificial leg for women on his blog [J]. This is yet a mock and you can only stand up with the current one, but Yamanaka wrote that the model woman, an athlete who runs with a regular prosthetic… Continue reading Prosthetic Limbs Aiming Artificial Beauty
Japan’s No.1 e-Mall Rakuten Trying To Be Like Twitter/Facebook By Rakuten Profile
Japan’s largest online mall company Rakuten started promoting its unknown service Rakuten Profile [J] since around October 10 to its 62 million members. The service comes with Twitter-like “tweet”, following/followers, Facebook-like “share”, your profile badge on Rakuten blog, Rakuten Profile seemed to launch without any release around August 9, 2011 [J]. There were no no… Continue reading Japan’s No.1 e-Mall Rakuten Trying To Be Like Twitter/Facebook By Rakuten Profile
Japan’s Web News Week 45
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. Daily Photo Recording App My365 Downloaded 100,000 Times In 10 Days After Launch Tim Bray Visited Bar Android, Tried Some Android Apps By Japanese Authors [En] Android’s Chief Andy Rubin visited… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 45
Smartphone Popularity Makes Hinge Vendor Delisted
photo © 2006 Jyri Engestrom | more info (via: Wylio) Strawberry Corporation, a Tokyo-based Japanese hardware maker announced [J, pdf] on October 27 that the company was delisted from Osaka Security Exchange JASDAQ market, as it was helped and subsidized by Advanex. Their anchor product is micro-sized hinges used for clam-shell type cellphone and laptop… Continue reading Smartphone Popularity Makes Hinge Vendor Delisted
Hatoful Boyfriends – Virtual Dating Game With Pigeons
Hatoful Kareshi [J] (hato=dove, kareshi=boyfriend so it is a word play of “full of pigeons boyfriend” and “heartful boyfriend”) is a Japanese style text-and-image virtual school dating game for girls, except all of your school love-life targets are pigeons. At the Saint Pigeonation School, a prestigious school but many pigeons are attending, At first you… Continue reading Hatoful Boyfriends – Virtual Dating Game With Pigeons
Yahoo! Market Opens For Android By Yahoo! Japan
Yahoo! Japan started its own Android Market, Yahoo! Market [J] on October 9. The market is based on Android applications information from the official Android Market, comes with Android app news provided by several Japanese Android app review media/blogs, such like Octoba, Sumaho-Girl, Andronavi, EX Droid, giveUp de Android, etc. Over 300 reviews per month… Continue reading Yahoo! Market Opens For Android By Yahoo! Japan