Nikkei Business online reported [J] that major radio stations in greater Tokyo and Osaka area gathered to open a new website which offers the same programs as their broadcasting. They are 6 from Tokyo (TBS Radio, Nippon Hoso, Bunka Hoso, FM Tokyo, J-WAVE, Inter FM), 6 from Osaka (ABC、MBS、OBC、FMO、FM802、FMcocolo) and Nikkei Radio on short wave.… Continue reading Japan’s 13 Major Radio Station To Start Simulcast On The Web
January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. METI Lottery In Exchange For Used Cellphone Campaign Collaborates Hatsune Miku Chinese Guy In Saitama Arrested By Providing Proxy Servers For Chinese Gamers To Play… Continue reading January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
Social Application Forum: Made-in-Japan apps for the world
The recession, almost no IPOs, structural shortcomings, not enough hot startups to invest in: The Japanese venture capital industry is in a critical situation. The current state of affairs forces companies that have money to pump into promising ventures to go new ways, and one of these is a joint initiative by a total of… Continue reading Social Application Forum: Made-in-Japan apps for the world
Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
Real time speech translation is the hot topic in last few days because of Google’s speech-to-speech translation development news and our reported Japanese government experiment. However, translation among human languages seems far behind Canis language translation, you can tell if you are a native dog language speaker (unfortunately I am not). BowLingual, Dog-to-human language translator… Continue reading Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
[UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
UPDATE: Over 3G, make sure to wait 30-60 seconds for the stream data to get cached. After that, you’ll notice a significant jump in picture and audio quality. Japan has a plethora of TV channels, but the biggest battleship is NHK [JP], the country’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK itself operates a number of different… Continue reading [UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
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
Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan
NICT(National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)’s Master Project, which stands for “Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch Project” are running an experiment on multilingual (Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean) real-time translation system. NICT has an English and other language pages to explain the whole experiment, which are and will be done in 5 different… Continue reading Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan
Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan
Japan’s legendary reality television show comes back with heavy usage of Twitter. Denpa Shonen 2010 (Denpa Shonen = Radio-Wave Boy), a successor program of the Susume Denpa Shonen, which started in 1992, is running their new program under the same producer (Producer T). The program name is “Denpa Shonen 2010 – Hito-wa Tsubuyaki Dakede Ikite… Continue reading Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan
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
Twitter Followers Serves You Free Sushi, Boardgame And More In Japan
Suddenly in Japan, small shop owners start thinking Twitter as a guerilla marketing tool. Ashton Kutcher could have eaten over $40,000 worth sushi in Tokyo if he knew it. The first one was a board game shop Sugorokuya(@sugorokuya) [J] at Koenji of west Tokyo, which offered “discount by number of your Twitter followers” campaign [J]… Continue reading Twitter Followers Serves You Free Sushi, Boardgame And More In Japan