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Japanese Web: Find Hilary Clinton’s Photo Similar To Social Game Idols

Playing on the tag challenge is one of the Japanese Twitter users’ favorites, besides super simultaneous tweets by TV watchers. There is a series of challenges that #”Send A picture, and B will be given to you”(#Aの画像を送るとそれに近いBの画像が送られてくる). As a challenge, cats, yuru-chara characters and anime idols from Idol M@aster console/social game are used well. For… Continue reading Japanese Web: Find Hilary Clinton’s Photo Similar To Social Game Idols

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

Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons

According to IT Media [J], Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs(ACA, Bunka-chou) reportedly expressed at a symposium that they had given up their original public copyright license CLIP, which they researched from 2007 to 2010, and changed to support existing licenses, especially Creative Commons Licenses(CC). Although that some criticizes ACA spent tax for such a project… Continue reading Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons

Currencies Personification By Japanese Foreign Exchange Company

We have been reporting how often personification received positive responses from tech/net-friendly consumers. For example, Android handsets, computer virus and popular web services had gotten anthropomorphic images by third-parties. A Twitter user @kudou39 noticed that a Japanese foreign exchange company SBI FXTrade featured 9 virtual girls for 9 major currencies they are offering trade. Here… Continue reading Currencies Personification By Japanese Foreign Exchange Company

CyberAgent Conducts Survey Of Its Home Page App “Candy”

CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has submitted a questionnaire related to “smartphone usage” towards users of “Candy,” [J] their home page application for smartphone, and they have announced the results of this. “Candy” is a smartphone application which allows users to create their own original home page and customize their profile, photos, and blog design.  From its… Continue reading CyberAgent Conducts Survey Of Its Home Page App “Candy”

Facebook Users Increased 33% Last Month

According to Socialbakers, which takes the number of users from Facebook’s own advertisers tool, the number of Japanese Facebook users jumped up from 10.5 million to 13.99 million. I do not notice any other signs to show Facebook’s popularity increase in August, but if Facebook’s self-claiming user base is reliable (maybe not so), something good… Continue reading Facebook Users Increased 33% Last Month

NHK News Explains What Japanese Web Jargon “JS” Means

Japan’s public TV channel NHK explained at its morning news what “JS” on the online forum means. NHK introduced this “JS” [J] as a new trend word listed by International Tokyo Toy Show 2012, which means “today’s elementary school girls who are fashion-conscious”, where “JS” comes from “Joshi Shogakusei”(elementary school girls). Actually the word “JS”… Continue reading NHK News Explains What Japanese Web Jargon “JS” Means