The market capitalization of Yahoo! Japan stands at $28 billion (as of Feb. 2008). Telecommunications conglomerate Softbank is the largest shareholder, holding 41% of the company’s shares. Yahoo! owns 33.4% of Yahoo! Japan’s shares. Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! is $44.6 billion while Yahoo!’s share of Yahoo! Japan is worth $9.3 billion.
Author: Shunichi Arai
Takigawa Christel Generator
Takigawa Lardux Christel Masami, born 1977, is a Japanese news anchor. She has become an internet phenomenon in Japan like Mélissa Theuriau. A website called Gedo-style created a funny image generator called ‘Takigawa Christel generator‘ which creates a video capture image with a fake caption. See Also: A youtube movie of Christel Takigawa A youtube… Continue reading Takigawa Christel Generator
Hiroumi and Serkan joined Asiajin
Probably you may noticed that two new editors joined Asiajin. It’s a big first step to make Asiajin to be a renowned blog about Japanese and Asian IT. Hiroumi Mitani is working at international development office of Rakuten. He is the first guy who contacted us for joining. His Japanese blog is here. Serkan Toto… Continue reading Hiroumi and Serkan joined Asiajin
Numbers of job openings in Japan by languages
Rank USA (indeed.com) Japan (jobdirect.jp) #1 Java 66346 Java 4580 #2 C++ 42495 PHP 3163 #3 C# 32673 VB + VisualBasic 2748 #4 JavaScript 29491 Perl 1198 #5 Perl 24415 Flash 799 #6 VB + VisualBasic 20159 JavaScript 526 #7 Flash 16619 C++ 292 #8 PHP 10703 Ruby 110 #9 Python 5990 C# 101 #10… Continue reading Numbers of job openings in Japan by languages
Mobage goes to the US
January 18th, Tokyo – DeNA, a company which runs Mobage town, will establish a subsidiary in the states. “DeNA Global,Inc.” will be located in California, supposedly San Francisco Bayarea. They will launch a US version of their very profitable mobile business there. Also they revised upward their net profit forecast from 4.5 billion to 6.3… Continue reading Mobage goes to the US
Favidle: seeking for flickr beauties
My friend omo created ‘Favidle‘, flickr variant of ‘hot or not’. Favidle obtains images from flickr with tags like ‘woman’, ‘girl’, etc… If user clicks a ‘Favor’, the image will be saved into their album and shared as a favidle. Here’s my fav album. Very simple site, yet quite appealing. See Also: (in English) An… Continue reading Favidle: seeking for flickr beauties
Major tech conferences in Japan
Here’s the list of the biggest community-based developer’s conferences in Japan. Please leave a comment if I forgot to mention your favorite conference. YAPC::Asia Tokyo YAPC::Asia Tokyo (Yet Another Perl Conference) had been held twice, and was very successful. YAPC officially adopts two languages (Japanese and English), and many speakers attended from different countries. Previously… Continue reading Major tech conferences in Japan
ALPSLAB Ryakuchizu: a sketch map generator
ALPSLAB Ryakuchizu (ALPSLAB 略地図) is a Flash powered sketch map generator. It generates a map which shows major crossings and guides to the objective while omitting unnecessary part from the original map. It is strictly a beta, and not provided for real use. Usually I doubt this kind of beta services which lack real business… Continue reading ALPSLAB Ryakuchizu: a sketch map generator
Toughbook: Japan’s favorite notebook
Q: What is the favorite notebook brand with Japanese developers? MacBook? maybe. Vaio? no. It’s Toughbook. Toughbook business laptops are marketed with ‘Let’s note’ brand in Japan. This ultra-light notebook has a surprisingly large share amongst Japanese developers. If you are looking for light (940g~1.5kg. 2lbs~3.3lbs), tough (water resistant) and long battery life (>6hours) notebook,… Continue reading Toughbook: Japan’s favorite notebook
Mobile phone companies to filter web content for minors
Mobage town, a social network and gaming site for mobile phones, is now in deep crisis. From December 10th, the Japanese government has requested mobiles phone companies to filter web content for minors. The filtering policy is very strict. It prohibits minors from accessing web sites in ‘communication’ criterion. ‘communication’ means all web sites with… Continue reading Mobile phone companies to filter web content for minors