Category: Japan

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

Rakuten Launches Teaser Site For Kobo e-Book Reader In Japan

Some time on the exact same day when Amazon Japan informed its customers Kindle coming to Japan market, Rakuten, the nation’s largest e-mall platform, is turned out to launch an information site of its e-book reader Kobo, which Rakuten bought November 2011. The site has a single page with Kobo Touch eReader image, which has… Continue reading Rakuten Launches Teaser Site For Kobo e-Book Reader In Japan

Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming “Soon”

Amazon Japan’s top page is showing a new text banner that says its e-book reader Kindle will be sold in Japan soon, today on June 26. The time it was displayed seemed around 15:15, 30 minutes ago, by Twitter tweets. Amazon periodically expressed their putting Kindle to Japan market. There have been also several leaked… Continue reading Amazon Japan Preannounces Kindle Coming “Soon”

Dentsu’s Android Lottery App For Internship Seat

Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency released a new Android app for wannabe students, Lucky Senkou(=selection). The app has only a single feature, to let students draw a lottery for the platinum slots of the 2012 internship program at Dentsu. You just need to click the button and wait Dentsu’s contact. The app description begins with… Continue reading Dentsu’s Android Lottery App For Internship Seat

Yahoo! Japan’s Hosting Company First Server Suffering Massive Down – Possible Data Lost?

First Server, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, has been having service troubles since around 17:30 June 20. There are several web services observed to be down, who explained on temporary error pages that their services are down because of the hosting service’s glitch. According to RBB Today [J], on the servers on 5 services, the… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan’s Hosting Company First Server Suffering Massive Down – Possible Data Lost?

Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan’s Blockbuster

Yahoo! Japan, the nation’s largest web service, and Culture Convenience Club(CCC), who runs video rental chain store Tsutaya and the center of the reward point network T-point, announced their tight alliance today after the Tokyo stock market closed. According to the release [J], Yahoo! Japan to merge T-ID, online ID for 40 million T-point card… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan’s Blockbuster

LinkedIn Chairman-Rakuten CEO Talk Livestreamed Soon

LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman is visiting Tokyo to promote his book “The Start-up of You” Japanese version (“Staato Appu!”). Ustream announced [J] that they are to broadcast Hoffman and Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s talk tonight soon from 19:00 (Japan Standard Time). The talk theme is “Startup in Japan”. There are English channel and Japanese channel… Continue reading LinkedIn Chairman-Rakuten CEO Talk Livestreamed Soon