A cabinet advisor unveiled recently that Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama would start using Twitter in the beginning of next year to let the people know how the government is working on political issues. On the Christmas day in prior to his first “REAL” tweet, someone (an ex-theater writer a.k.a. a blogosphere fussbudget) has pretended… Continue reading Spoofing PM Tweets Cause Confusion, The Cabinet Office To Move Up The Day Of Real Account Launch
Category: Japan
Susan Boyle To Sing On Japan’s Most Popular Year End Program
According to Asahi Shimbun [J], NHK, nation’s public broadcasting organization, announced that this year’s most Internet-buzzed singer Susan Boyle will appear in Kohaku Utagassen [J], Japan’s most popular TV program which once 80% of Japanese, still 40% watches on new year’s eve [J]. photo by Deborah Wilbanks from Wikipedia [Update 2010-01-01] NHK put the recorded… Continue reading Susan Boyle To Sing On Japan’s Most Popular Year End Program
Glad To Hear That iPhone Is No.1 In Japan Again And Again
iPhone’s “Big success in Japan” is on hype in English websphere, again. My comment for that is “Google Translate sucks”, at least for this kind of research. What does “No.1 smartphone” mean in Japan? In Japan, “smartphone” is a cellphone category which does not support common Japanese cellphone features, especially accessibility to three major carriers’… Continue reading Glad To Hear That iPhone Is No.1 In Japan Again And Again
A New Software Only To Bounce Brests (Or Whatever) On Image
Gazou-wo-purupuru-ni-suru-soft (A software to make image puddingy) is a tentative tool developed in C++ language by a Nico Nico Douga user YNW. You see how it works here, (you may turn off Japanese comments by the bottom-right button) [Niconico Douga] I’ve made a software to shake static image ver 2.00(tentative) # I cannot watch the… Continue reading A New Software Only To Bounce Brests (Or Whatever) On Image
You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets
Well, who the hell marks 100,000 favorite on Twitter anyway? Japanese! There are several reports and complaints that heavy Twitter-favorite users were suddenly unable to log in, mark favorite, tweet, etc. According to a popular and influencial Japanese web watcher @katoyuu, who also suffered this problem, listed up Japanese twitter users who had troubles referring… Continue reading You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets
Japanese Red Cross Promotes Blood Donation By Augmented Reality
Digital Signage Consortium[J] has set up digital signage devices at Akihabara station and on the streets around there, and is helping Japanese Red Cross to campaign blood donation by using the augmented reality technology. The device enables face recognition, and it can count how many people have seen the screen. When you stop by in… Continue reading Japanese Red Cross Promotes Blood Donation By Augmented Reality
J-Magic CEO Now Joins Mixi
Today, J-Magic[J] CEO Takuya Miyata[J] (@takmiyata[J]) unveiled that he had joined Japan’s largest social network service company Mixi[J] as an employee working with the Mixi business department. As reported here on Asiajin, J-Magic handed over their breed-winning business of the face recognition mobile app to Mobile Factory last month, and they have been said to… Continue reading J-Magic CEO Now Joins Mixi
New Japanese IME Has Come From The Origin Of Chinese Characters
Following Google’s Japanese IME (input method editor) newly introduced in the beginning of this month, the Japanese subsidiary of China’s largest website search portal Baidu[C] also introduced a new one for our language, which is named Baidu Type[J] (in beta). By referring to the Japanese input method which has been adopted for cellphone handsets, Baidu… Continue reading New Japanese IME Has Come From The Origin Of Chinese Characters
Send a Package via Email Address
SoftBank Frameworks, logistics provider and a subsidiary of SoftBank, announced a new service where you can send packages without knowing the recipient’s physical address. The service is called Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery). To send a package, sender would fill out an online form with the email address of the recipient. The service will… Continue reading Send a Package via Email Address
Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site
As reported on Google Help Forum in Japanese [J], some Japanese search users who searched on Google by “yahoo.co.jp” was taken to a site which has a strange domain “twakuwakuland.info”, but shows the totally same contents as Yahoo! Japan. People usually search Yahoo! Japan by “Yahoo” but not “yahoo.co.jp” (well, I don’t know why people… Continue reading Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site