Category: News

First Arrest by Perfect Dark, the Latest P2P Client

Different language, different application. That is not an exclusive phenomenon for web services like Facebook against Japanese big 3. The most popular P2P file sharing software on Japanese web is not BitTorrent. First, it was western WinMX follower Winny. When Winny network caused chaos on society by virus (which uploaded private and enterprise files under… Continue reading First Arrest by Perfect Dark, the Latest P2P Client

Hummer Is Certified As “Eco Car” By Japanese Government

(photo by airgap) This may not be really web/IT for regular Asiajin, but fuel saving is supported by IT, and car and software may be hot topic around US Toyota incident, too (thanks for link Paul). More than 10 foreign car brands including Hummer H3 V8 were added to the government’s “Eco Car” tax reduction… Continue reading Hummer Is Certified As “Eco Car” By Japanese Government

iTunes Selling Bootleg Of Japanese Techno Star Makes Labels Worried

GAME by Perfume According to ITMedia [J], Internet Watch [J], Asahi [J] and more coming, 11 songs of Perfume‘s album “Game” are found to be sold on iTunes store, which turned out to be unauthorized copy by unknown fake company. Perfume is a popular Japanese girls techno unit broke through as a star from the… Continue reading iTunes Selling Bootleg Of Japanese Techno Star Makes Labels Worried

Japanese Government Site For Whistle-blower Finally Launches, Still Insists Non Existing “.com”

As we reported [1][2], Japanese government opens a website for people to inform wasted tax money or irrational rules issues directly to them. The domain name, after squatted, is “http://www.cao.go.jp/” which guarantees the website is by government. However, they do not stop using “Hatomimi.com” [J] logo and tries to send confuse people to the squatter’s… Continue reading Japanese Government Site For Whistle-blower Finally Launches, Still Insists Non Existing “.com”

Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China

Japan’s biggest, and the world second largest e-commerce company Rakuten, which is also known by its active overseas activities in last years as a Japanese originated web company, announced its partnership with China’s leading, and the world third largest search engine company Baidu. [pdf] According to the release, Rakuten and Baidu agreed to establish a… Continue reading Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China

The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say

Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei) [Wikipedia], one of the most influential industrial newspaper in Japan, who had declared its digital version launch plan for this spring on its January 3rd newspaper, seems to set its starting time and fee plan, according to multiple sources. Both February issue of Facta magazine [J, magazine subscription required] and… Continue reading The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say

Spysee’s web campaign: Collect 1 million Yen for Japan’s Paralympics ski team

Here’s a news item of a different kind: The next Winter Paralympics, basically the Winter Olympics for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, will be held in Vancouver between March 12 to March 21, 2010. Japan is sending a few different teams, and one of them, the cross-country ski team, is now counting on the… Continue reading Spysee’s web campaign: Collect 1 million Yen for Japan’s Paralympics ski team

Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon

By Asahi Shimbun’s report [J], I came to know this Japan version of the famous internet prank had been planned. It is not a subway but a JR Yamate line train, on January 10th Sugamo police department had caught the information that there would be “No Pants Subway Ride” held. They sent 60 police officers… Continue reading Tokyo No Pants Train Ride Calls Police Cordon

Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly

Japanese “social illustration site” Pixiv continues to amaze. The site, which lets users present self-made drawings to other users and offers a number of basic social networking functionalities, now counts a whopping 1.5 million members [JP]. Not bad for a completely domestic site that’s only available in Japanese (although  some foreigners exhibit their works on… Continue reading Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly