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

Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up In Taipei

Asiajin held a readers meet-up event in Taipei on Sunday. Several Taiwanese geeks reading our blog came together for networking, and exchanged their perspective on the tech scenes of Taiwan and Japan with Asiajin contributors Akky, Shunichi and Masaru. Here’s a summary of what we were talking about and what we’ve learned. Micro-blog services such… Continue reading Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up In Taipei

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

Asiajin Meets Chili: Akky Presents Japanese Tech Scene At Taipei’s Tech Community

Nii-hao, Taiwan! Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto is now in Taiwan. On Saturday, he was invited to have a presentation on Japanese social media and tech scenes at Chili Ideas Party, a serial meet-up organized by Taipei-based Chili Consulting[C] who has been serving Taiwan’s tech community. Asiajin co-founder Shunichi Arai and author Masaru IKEDA also visited… Continue reading Asiajin Meets Chili: Akky Presents Japanese Tech Scene At Taipei’s Tech Community

Update: Asiajin To Host Readers Meet-up in Taipei This Weekend

Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto(@akky), Shunichi Arai(@araipiyo) and author Masaru Ikeda(@masaruikeda) are now staying in Taipei and will have a readers meet-up event on Sunday. If you’re interested in attending it, please subscribe to this Plancast link to keep you update with the latest information. (We’ll keep this blog post update as well.) 大きな地図で見る Venue: Mr.… Continue reading Update: Asiajin To Host Readers Meet-up in Taipei This Weekend

Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads

Japan’s second largest ad agency Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Sony CSL‘s spin-out specializing in developing location detection technology with WiFi signals Koozyt and the country’s second-ranked newspaper in its circulation the Asahi Shimbun jointly started a new ad service using the iPhone today. The new service is named A-Clip, by installing the iPhone app and… Continue reading Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads

“Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy

An interview to the president of Yahoo! Japan Masahiro Inoue (photo) by Nikkei Business Magazine with a catchy title “Google? I think none of their services are cool.” is getting huge attentions in Japanese web. To answer the interviewer’s comment “By comparing Google’s services such like Street View and Book Search, Yahoo! seems not to… Continue reading “Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy

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

Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon’s company which manages and sells cloud computing services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc., is turned out to open its Japanese subsidiary Amazon Data Services Japan at unknown time in 2009, talked by one of their two employees at Japan Amazon EC2 Users Group, a blog Publickey reported [J]. At… Continue reading Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan