Category: Japan

Yomiuri TV Uses Skype To Interview Candidates

Japanese television broadcaster Yomiuri TV has found a novel new way to recruit young new employees to their company. They utilize Skype chat and video to conduct the interview. The thinking behind the process is not to only demonstrate how “hip” they are to new technologies but also to provide an opportunity for many applicants… Continue reading Yomiuri TV Uses Skype To Interview Candidates

Hangame: Japan’s No. 1 online gaming site

Japan is known as the world’s No. 1 producer of high quality video games. After all, companies such as Nintendo, Sony (Playstation) or Sega are rooted in this country. In the light of this, it seems strange that the leading online game service in Japan comes from Korea: Hangame (only accessible with IE). At certain… Continue reading Hangame: Japan’s No. 1 online gaming site

Twitter Japan dev team showed some plans

On the twitter Japanese localization news, newly-opened Twitter Japan development blog explains what items are on their task list on localization process. In their current plan, They are making Japanese version on top of current (running) system. Japanese users and world users belong to the same account space. They do NOT make another Japanese version… Continue reading Twitter Japan dev team showed some plans

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

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“Circle” and “Cross”: Two Japanse web services using Japanse style expression

Newsing is a social bookmark service similar to Digg. The big difference is a coloured circle beside the bookmarked news title. It’s a graphed circle with red and gray and “circle” means thumbs up and “cross” means thumbs down. newsing.jp Users can express their attitude to the bookmarked news by clicking either a red circle… Continue reading “Circle” and “Cross”: Two Japanse web services using Japanse style expression

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

Tokyo2point0: HTML 5, ONGMAP, Web Trendmap v3

On Tuesday, the monthly Tokyo2point0 event in Omotesandou/Tokyo was held for the 8th time. The venue was really packed. Andrew Shuttleworth (the organizer) told me he would love to see more people to RSVP before coming. Also, companies can contact Andrew directly for sponsorship to help the volunteers currently running the event. You can sign… Continue reading Tokyo2point0: HTML 5, ONGMAP, Web Trendmap v3

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