Chromebook Finally Comes For Japanese Consumers

Google Japan official blog announced today November 11 that the first consumer Chromebooks will be sold in Japan. Dell Chromebook 11 is sold today, Acer C720 Chromebook will be available on 13 at retails and online. Chromebook had been only sold for enterprises and educational institutions in Japan since July. Chromebook Finally Comes For Japanese… Continue reading Chromebook Finally Comes For Japanese Consumers

Japanese Legal Advice Service Bengo4.com To Go IPO

Tokyo Stock Exchange Today announced that Bengo4.com(pronounced bengo-shi-dotto-komu, bengoshi means layer in Japanese) will be listed to its Mothers section on December 11. Bengo4.com is a portal site serving legal FAQ, legal news/column publishing, layer matching, etc. Japanese Legal Advice Service Bengo4.com To Go IPO

Google Agreed To Remove 122 Items By Court Order

Asahi reported that Google Japan answered them that they would remove the items ordered by Tokyo District Court. Complainer’s agent confirmed that most of the items are not showing up on Google Search results. The complainer had claimed that Google showing the pages with implying that he was related with crimes is an invasion of… Continue reading Google Agreed To Remove 122 Items By Court Order

J-Deite Shows Real Transformer Car/Robot

Project J-deite, a joint group of three companies, Brave Robotics, Asratec and Takara Tommy, demonstrated its transforming car-robot J-deite, though the size is 1/4 of the final version. Takara-Tommy, is a Japanese toy company known by making Transformers. According to Brave Robotics site, 1/2 scale robot is planned to be made in 2015, then 1/1… Continue reading J-Deite Shows Real Transformer Car/Robot

IBM Makes Anime “Steins;Gate” New Short Episodes on “Cognitive Computing”

The new short episodes of Sci-Fi anime series Steins;Gate is released on IBM Japan’s “Cognitive Computing” promotion site Mugendai Web (infinite web). The series name is “聡明叡智のコグニティブ・コンピューティング”(cognitive computing of sagacious wisdom). Episode I Cooking is watchable. There are three more episodes grayed-out on the site. The original game Steins;Gate featured an “ancient” portable computer IBN5100,… Continue reading IBM Makes Anime “Steins;Gate” New Short Episodes on “Cognitive Computing”

Facebook Adds Kansai-ben(dialect)

Facebook Japan added today a new language selection “Japanese (Kansai)” for its web versions (PC and mobile), Weekly Ascii Plus reported. In Kansai-ben, “Iine!”(Like!) is displayed as “Eeyan!”, “Comment” is replaced with “Tsukkomu”. via Weekly Ascii Plus Facebook Adds Kansai-ben(dialect)