Evernote‘s press conference was held in Tokyo on 23rd June, just one day before their second anniversary. At the conference, Evernote’s CEO Phil Libin, who was visiting Tokyo, announced a lot of new things for their Japanese users. 1. Japan branch They opened a 100% subsidiary, Evernote Japan. Evernote’s vice president Takeshi Nakajima, who worked… Continue reading Evernote Gets Bigger, Opens Office in Japan
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CNBC Pranked By Japanese Photoshopper
Bloomberg reported that Japanese Ministry of Finance posted a silly ad to solicit young Japanese guys to buy government bonds on popular free magazine R25, which is a true story. To Japanese’ credit, many people here were amazed by silliness of the ad project, and got angry against who spent tax for this. The magazine… Continue reading CNBC Pranked By Japanese Photoshopper
Japanese mobile gaming startup GREE to open US and China offices within a year
Japan’s social networks seem to be hitting a ceiling growth-wise, and apparently they increasingly feel the need to go abroad in order to grow. “Japan’s Facebook” Mixi, which now counts 20 million members, is operating “Mixiu” in China. DeNA, the company behind mobile gaming platform Mobage-town (19.4 million members), has always been more aggressive in… Continue reading Japanese mobile gaming startup GREE to open US and China offices within a year
E/J Bulingual Digital Manga “Darling ha Gaikokujin” Goes On US iPad
Japan’s 3 million best selling comic essay “Darling ha Gaikokujin”(My Darling Is A Foreigner), which also became a movie this spring, depicting international relationship and marriage between Japanese girl and American guy, was digitized and published as one of the first Japan originated iPad manga application both on US and Japanese app store. Original Japanese… Continue reading E/J Bulingual Digital Manga “Darling ha Gaikokujin” Goes On US iPad
DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad
DeNA, which runs one of big three Japanese social networking Mobage-Town, today announced and immediately launched MiniNation and its games, their popular social games and its basement community in English on iPhone/iPad for oversea users. The games and MiniNation are only available “outside of Japan”. So it is not for their royal Japanese users but… Continue reading DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad
Cyber Agent America Launches Facebook App Of Metaverse
On Tuesday, Tokyo-based Cyber Agent‘s subsidiary in Silicon Valley, Cyber Agent America launched a metaverse called Comic World as a Facebook app basically targeting international users. In the app, you can dress up your own avatar with clothing you’ve purchased with a virtual money called ComicCash. The user account for Comic World is compatible with… Continue reading Cyber Agent America Launches Facebook App Of Metaverse
Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1
Two Japanese web affiliate service provider(ASP) LinkShare Japan and Traffic Gate announced [J] to unite on May 1st, 2010. They will be the largest ASP in Japan. Behind LinkShare Japan, there is a parent company MITSUI & CO.,LTD., aka Mitsui Bussan, zaibatsu-type sogo shosha (general trading companies) who jointly established LinkShare Japan with US LinkShare.… Continue reading Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1
Faceboook Is Making Japanese Cellphone Dedicated Version
Nikkei Trendy Net reported [J] that Facebook Head of International Growth Javier Olivan told them Facebook’s Japan branch status and their first goal, specially customized site for Japanese cellphone. According to the report, Facebook already opened their Tokyo office on February 2nd, which was announced in last fall (our report). The main task of them… Continue reading Faceboook Is Making Japanese Cellphone Dedicated Version
First Japanese Manga On Amazon Kindle Released
Although Amazon Kindle is possible to order from Japan, Kindle and its backend do not support Japanese font well yet. Support for Japanese publishers in Japanese are not prepared, too. So, most Japanese people who currently own Kindle are gadget fans, English-savvy or for research purpose. And some people see potential on the device and… Continue reading First Japanese Manga On Amazon Kindle Released
President Thrown Shoes Ads by Alibaba China
China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba.com seems to have a good sense of humour and doing viral marketing there in the secret Chinese web. Chinese film creator Hu Ge(胡戈) makes a parody movie of the former US president Bush’s dodging thrown shoes at a press conference in Iraq. In the movie the president was less patient… Continue reading President Thrown Shoes Ads by Alibaba China