16 Free Apps To Depict Character’s Face On Your iPhone

Yahoo Japan released 16 free iPhone Apps simultaneously at Japanese iTunes Store. By locating each app on the screen correctly, like solving a number slider puzzle, you can depict a face of the most famous character in Japan, Doraemon. Each app icon is designed to be a part of the face of this character. Usually, iPhone… Continue reading 16 Free Apps To Depict Character’s Face On Your iPhone

New Ustream Investor Softbank 3Q Results Briefing Starts On The Web Now

I have just read the breaking news that Softbank invests $75 million to Ustream Inc., live video streaming service. When Softbank will exercise all option, it will be the lead investor with over 30%. Yesterday, Softbank announced that they would broadcast their third quoter results report over several different channels like follows, Softbank Website Yahoo!… Continue reading New Ustream Investor Softbank 3Q Results Briefing Starts On The Web Now

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

Blame Internet Over The Fewest Homicides. What!?

Two of Japan’s most authoritative newspapers, Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei Shimbun both put a very similar notes on their front editorial on January 29th, which made net users upset. Both referred the statistical trend which had been announced by The National Police Agency. The number of homicides and homicide attempts in 2009 was 1,097, and… Continue reading Blame Internet Over The Fewest Homicides. What!?

Japan Has iPad(Aipad) – It’s Hi Tech Adult Diaper

Last article, I wrote Fujitsu’s iPad is only for USA market so this time Apple would not have a trademark problem in Japan… Maybe wrong. ITMedia found [J] a sensor-ready adult absorbent brief product [J] by a company called Awajitec [J], named “あいパッド”, which pronounce exactly same as iPad in Japanese. Although the product page’s… Continue reading Japan Has iPad(Aipad) – It’s Hi Tech Adult Diaper

iPad-Fujitsu Trademark Conflict Sounds Familiar In Japan

Apple’s “revolutionary” tablet PC iPad name collides with Fujitsu US’s shop clerk gear which exists for 8 years. (Engadget goes deeper) That may remind US people Apple and Cisco’s issue around the iPhone brand. To Japanese, “Aiphone” story is familiar. When Apple brought iPhone into Japan, they faced a similar issue against another Japanese “intercom”… Continue reading iPad-Fujitsu Trademark Conflict Sounds Familiar In Japan

January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)

Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is the first half of January Japanese IT/Web interesting news links we did not take as a dedicated article. (part 2 is here)… Continue reading January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)

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