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August’s Startup Weekend Events To Take Place In Tokyo, Kyoto And Fukuoka

In the next month, it will be the hottest summer ever which is filled with a number of start-up events. Jonny Li, a Tokyo-based British start-up curator and also known as a partner for the Startup Weekend organization, announced he would hold its 54-hour weekend events in Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka. The events are to… Continue reading August’s Startup Weekend Events To Take Place In Tokyo, Kyoto And Fukuoka

Mobage And Gree Both To Bring Their Flash Games Into Smartphone

Two huge Japanese social gaming networks who are working on oversea expansion showed a new move to utilize their accumulated assets on Japanese feature phone world – Flash based games. On June 30, Mobage company DeNA announced [J] that they had purchased Broadtail, a Tokyo-based tech start-up, who developed a tool named “ExGame” to run… Continue reading Mobage And Gree Both To Bring Their Flash Games Into Smartphone

Facebook Spot Information Is Jacked By A Giant Japanese Coupon Business Player

Facebook Spot Information is becoming popular in Japan after Facebook had started Check-in Coupon (Check-in Deals) in Japan. Facebook Japan Holds An New Coupon Service Launch Event In Shibuya The problem arouse when Recruit[E], Japan’s largest coupon business player, registered spot information of restaurants on behalf of restaurant owners without enough notification. Hitoshi Nakamura(twitter id:… Continue reading Facebook Spot Information Is Jacked By A Giant Japanese Coupon Business Player

Spherical Joint Stocking Makes You More Figures-Alike

“Kyutai Kansetsu Sutokkingu”(Spherical Joint Stocking) is a coterie stocking sold at Bungaku Furima(=literature flea-market), a dojinshi sale dedicated for literature-related things only, by circle Ojosama Gakkou Shojo Bu(preppie school girls section). The stocking has globe joint painted on knees, to make your leg like real figure. The stockings, 2,000 yen(US$25) seems sold out on their… Continue reading Spherical Joint Stocking Makes You More Figures-Alike

Google+, Love+

We just wrote that Japanese made a Google Plus logo homages Nintendo DS virtual dating game Love Plus. Now illustration follows by Pixiv user acea4. Three girls have Google Map, Gmail and Chrome icons. The original “Love Plus” illustration,

Mixi Changes Friends-List To Display Your Friends’ Full-Names

On June 29, one of Japan’s largest social network service Mixi introduced a change on a view of your My Mixi(also called Maimiku, = friends on Mixi). My Mixi list page [J, login required] now shows you your friends’ full names in parenthesis under their nick names. Number of their friends were displayed in the… Continue reading Mixi Changes Friends-List To Display Your Friends’ Full-Names

Dentsu Gets Exclusive Rights To Display Ads On Skype

Dentsu has struck another exclusivity deal, this time with Skype. The deal is intended to generate 1 billion of revenue (12.4 million USD) through exclusive display space on the Skype start up screen. Banner / video ads will cover roughly 1/3 of the screen as the program boots and will be cycled through daily .… Continue reading Dentsu Gets Exclusive Rights To Display Ads On Skype

Lady Gaga Shows Up On A Long-Running Japanese Talkshow

Tetsuko no Heya, a long-running TV talk show hosted by a popular actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who is also known as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is announced to take a session with Lady Gaga. Tetsuko no Heya began in 1976 and has been running over 9,000 times. (Wikipedia Japanese) Gaga side seemed to research the host… Continue reading Lady Gaga Shows Up On A Long-Running Japanese Talkshow

Twitter To Charge Fee For Tweets: False Rumor Makes Japanese Users Panic

Last week, a false rumor telling that you will need to pay to tweet on Twitter from July 1 was widely circulated in Japanese twittersphere. Many of those tweets pointed a single source, Uncyclopedia Japan’s news, titled with “Twitter Japanese version will be switched to a paid service from July”, which explained the background why… Continue reading Twitter To Charge Fee For Tweets: False Rumor Makes Japanese Users Panic