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How to count combination, taught in Anime

Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo waterfront releases an educational video “How to count combinations”. The story at the beginning seems relaxed, however, as @iwiwi introduced as “crazy”, it goes too much and may frighten kids if you do not use better math. The video comes with English subtexts. Enjoy.

Facebook Users Increased 33% Last Month

According to Socialbakers, which takes the number of users from Facebook’s own advertisers tool, the number of Japanese Facebook users jumped up from 10.5 million to 13.99 million. I do not notice any other signs to show Facebook’s popularity increase in August, but if Facebook’s self-claiming user base is reliable (maybe not so), something good… Continue reading Facebook Users Increased 33% Last Month

Amazon Japan Mistakenly Teases Kindle Pages, But No Japanese E-Books

Amazon Japan, who has not been able to launch its long-awaited e-book reader/platform Kindle for years, leaked something related with Kindle on its website around September 3, just a couple of days before US Amazon’s press event planned on September 6 (7th in Japan timezone). According to a blogger ArtSalt [J], the link appeared fist… Continue reading Amazon Japan Mistakenly Teases Kindle Pages, But No Japanese E-Books

Play Game On Spreadsheet! Japanese Coffee-Soda Promotion

Japan’s beverage vendor Suntory’s new promotion site [J] for its carbonated coffee drink Espressoda [J] is an action game on web browser, which you can play at office, as the game looks like your are working on spreadsheets. Horizontal scrolling game with jump and obstacles, such like Super Mario, is built on financial tables and… Continue reading Play Game On Spreadsheet! Japanese Coffee-Soda Promotion

Mixi Page’s New Campaign Song With Gals And 7yo DJ

Japanese social network giant Mixi collaborates with the large summer festival of gals under the name of “Campus Summit 2012 meets mixi”. According to the event page, Campus Summit is a summer festivals for and by college students, which began in 1995 in Tokyo. At largest, the festivals were held at 57 locations in all… Continue reading Mixi Page’s New Campaign Song With Gals And 7yo DJ

Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)

Rakuten is having a press conference now, just announced that they release Kobo Touch e-book reader for Japanese market, with a price 7,980 yen ($US 99). Rakuten, and its e-commerce/e-book rival Amazon announced their e-book readers coming to Japan on the last Tuesday, June 26th. The sales will start on July 19, pre-order starts today… Continue reading Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)

KDDI’s Subsidiary Wire And Wireless To Offer Free WiFi At Starbucks, Starting From Tokyo

Wire and Wireless (wi2), a subsidiary of Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier KDDI, announced [J] its new free WiFi program at Starbucks Coffee chain-store in Japan. Free WiFi at cafe? If you have ever tried to find free WiFi in Japan, you know this is a news. The free WiFi program, “at_STARBUCKS_Wi2”, is sponsored by… Continue reading KDDI’s Subsidiary Wire And Wireless To Offer Free WiFi At Starbucks, Starting From Tokyo

Anonymous Hackers Personified As A Clumsy Girl On Japanese Web

Anonymous, a hacker group known by several internet protest attacks against the recently passed Japanese anti-copyright bill which penalized music downloaders, who are being reported to be attacking Japanese government and political parties websites, gets a little troubles on its first contact with Japanese. Until this attack began, Anonymous and its hacktivism were known as… Continue reading Anonymous Hackers Personified As A Clumsy Girl On Japanese Web