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Yahoo! Japan Testing Office Version For Enterprise Workers

The dominant portal/search Yahoo! Japan is testing a customized portal for office workers. On Yahoo! Japan’s top page, which is the most viewed page in Japan by the way, a new button “Office Version” is showed up at the best position on the top banner menu. Once you clicked it, your Yahoo top page is… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Testing Office Version For Enterprise Workers

Google Japan’s Winter Present – Free WiFi In 370 Coffeeshops

Like Google US offers free WiFi in 47 airports, Google Japan announced 30 minutes free WiFi gift everyday for mobile users, at three chainshops, Tully’s Coffee, Pronto coffee/bar and Lotteria hamburger in populated areas [J] from November 30th to February 28th. On this campaign [J] to promote Google services (you need to register with your… Continue reading Google Japan’s Winter Present – Free WiFi In 370 Coffeeshops

24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap

Stickam Japan is a personal video streaming service, a Japanese version of US Stickam.com, which is said to be owned by Japanese. Today on Stickam Japan, a girl whose handle is _mextli attempted suicide by jumping off her balcony, the 4th floor of apartment, during her live videostream, some watchers wrote on 2 channel BBS.… Continue reading 24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap

Fake Toilet Flushing Sound Keychain Meets Characters

Japanese women are known to feel ashamed even by their sound of peeing listened by other buddies. Portable noise maker Eco Hime (= ecological princess), which saves you when you are in the public bathroom accidentally does not have the built-in noise generator, are now visually improved as well with popular characters. The characters are,… Continue reading Fake Toilet Flushing Sound Keychain Meets Characters

Japanese Top Search Keywords 2009 By Yahoo! Japan

Although it is November, the season of 2009 ranking comes! Yahoo! Japan discloses their annual ranking by what keywords people searched in this year. As always, all Japanese search engines and portals will follow, but Yahoo! Japan is the No.1 search in Japan, this ranking is one of the best to describe “regular” people’s search… Continue reading Japanese Top Search Keywords 2009 By Yahoo! Japan

Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy

BitWallet, Inc. [J], a company has been running Edy [J] since 2001, will allocate new stocks to a third party at the end of this year, about 3 billion yen of which will be bought by Rakuten. Rakuten group, centres the giant e-commerce mall Rakuten Ichiba, purchased KC Card, a credit card company in 2005… Continue reading Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy

Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV

NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden developed a prototype [J] of remote control which is powered by the movement of user’s button-push actions. User actions produce electrical energy, and enable the controller to turn on/off, change volume and switch channels without dry-cell batteries. Both companies are to promote the technology to TV set vendors, to realize… Continue reading Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV

News In Manga Style – Two Manga-News Sites Show Up

Two manga-style news are launching within a month in Japan. Manga no Shimbun Manga no Shimbun(Manga Newspaper) is a website offers news in Japanese comic style, launched October 15th 2009 by KaBa Net [J]. Manga no Shimbun covers four categories, Politics/Economy, International, Society and Entertainment/Sports. On the launch announcement [J], also in manga by (probably)… Continue reading News In Manga Style – Two Manga-News Sites Show Up