Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Twitter Japan Enables Retweet Button
Twitter has turned on official retweet button for Japanese users. You could use it by changing your menu language with English, but most Japanese users see this button first this week. The label of …
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iPhone Push-Ups Apps: Be Careful Otherwise You Will Crack iPhone Screen
NEC Biglobe, one of the largest Japanese ISP/portal releases iPhone app “Push-Ups Dojo” to count, record and share (of course, on Twitter) your push-ups. I am sure that there are already …
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President Thrown Shoes Ads by Alibaba China
China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba.com seems to have a good sense of humour and doing viral marketing there in the secret Chinese web. Chinese film creator Hu Ge(胡戈) makes a parody movie …
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Dentsu iButterfly Experiments AR and Location Based Coupon Service
Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertising agency, announced that they started experimental coupon platform iButterfly with free iPhone application. The application “iButterfly - Coupon …
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iPhone Final Fantasy Targets Oversea Market
Square Enix, who holds two best selling Japanese role playing game series, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, announced on Facebook their Final Fantasy I and II are being ported to iPhone/iPod Touch. In …
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Cellphone Geo-Location Game CoroPura Gets 750,000 Users
By seeing Foursquare and Gowalla mentioned a lot on blogs and twitter, I noticed that Asiajin has not introduced how geo location mobile services are doing in Japan, where GPS capable cellphones are …
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Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon
By Asahi Shimbun’s report [J], I came to know this Japan version of the famous internet prank had been planned. It is not a subway but a JR Yamate line train, on January 10th Sugamo police …
