According to Sankei reported [J], Circle-K-Sunkus, the 4th largest convenience chain-store, announced on November 17th that it would replace its own reward points system with e-commerce giant Rakuten’s Rakuten Super Points. Sales ranking of convenience store chains (2011) These 4 groups occupied nearly 90% of domestic market. chains sales(billion yen) Seven Eleven 3281 Lawson 1826… Continue reading Japan’s 4th Largest Convenience Chain-store To Use Rakuten Super Points
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Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In
Japanese Twittersphere, one of the most active languages on Twitter, was confused by a simple but very effective viral trick since last week. Since October 15, tweets with sensational titles of videos with a link to liveplaylist.net began to appear on people’s Twitter timelines among Japanese. The tweets has the same format: plays “(title, usually… Continue reading Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In
Gree Proposes Voluntary Retirement To 11% Employees
Gree announced today after the Tokyo market close [J] that it starts asking voluntary retirement to 200 workers, which will be 11% of 1,762 employees.
Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo
Mixi released an new iPhone app “Mixi Talk”, which enables users to send Mixi message with stamps and photos. [app id:698125920] No such application found. Maybe deleted? Embed iPhone/iPad App Mixi has been offering an official iOS app, which covers more features from PC/feature-phone Mixi. This message app seems to try to stop losing users… Continue reading Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo
Veoh Likely Aquired By Japanese FC2
First pointed out by someone on Hatena Anonymous Diary, online video service Veoh‘s ownership seems to be handed over to FC2, a huge but scarcely known Japanese everything-portal. FC2 sent a mail to users, soliciting to use Veoh, as s/he wrote. Veoh’s copyright on footer now has “FC2”. According to the Internet Archive, this copyright… Continue reading Veoh Likely Aquired By Japanese FC2
Party Rock Anthem official Japanese version
“Shibuya Party Rock Night” was released on August 28. “LINE Yatteru?”(Are you on LINE?) 02:38 via Natalie Music
Growth Of The World Largest Self-Publisher Convention, Comic Market
Yomiuri Accuses A Cook Uploads Cooking Photo On Facebook
Yomiuri Shinbun, the world’s largest newspaper, today reported a new culprit who played over food and social media photo [J]. It is the latest one on the series of the stupid social media users. This bad guy carried in his own smart phone at his workplace, a school lunch center in Nagano prefecture, took photos… Continue reading Yomiuri Accuses A Cook Uploads Cooking Photo On Facebook
Big Chainstores Troubled With Social Media Photos Of Their Stupid Part Timers
My monthly column on The Japan Times this month was about young part time workers photo troubles over Twitter. It was not possible to post the inconsiderate photos there, so I put some links for people who want to see the photos. A summary site someone collected the problematic photos [J] (because most case the… Continue reading Big Chainstores Troubled With Social Media Photos Of Their Stupid Part Timers
Japan’s National Election with Vocaloid
Upper house election finished tonight 20:00 Sunday, July 21. This time, the use of the Internet was allowed first time in history. So far, there are no prominent Internet using candidate reported though. Another small difference which some people noticed this time is the usage of Vocaloid, human-voice music synthesizer software which might be best… Continue reading Japan’s National Election with Vocaloid