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Nico Nico Douga Hits 1.5 Million Paid Subscribers

Japanese online video sharing service Nico Nico Douga has got 1.5 million paid subscribers on January 3, 2012. Nico Nico Douga, with its unique overlay user-generated comments, is known by users’ videos, but recently it airs programs from TV and movie as well both in free and paid channels. Nico Nico Premium Membership costs 525… Continue reading Nico Nico Douga Hits 1.5 Million Paid Subscribers

Japan’s Web News Week 52

The last week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article in 2011. Thank you for your support to Asiajin. It was a great year. 6-7 days around the New Year’s day are basically holiday for most people in Japan, so there were not much news. Referred pages are all… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 52

Android Highschool – Personified Androids Comic

A manga (Japanese comic) series “Hana no Andoroido Gakuen”(Sweet Android High-school) is a comic depicts the battles of Android handset vendors as a school life with caricatured girls who have each vendors characteristics. “-chan” is a Japanese post-nominal title used for young, tiny or small person. “-kun” is similar but for boys, so her Apple… Continue reading Android Highschool – Personified Androids Comic

Japanese Tweets Likely Makes Another World Record On Twitter

As expected, the opening of year 2012 on Japanese Twitter was a full stream of new year’s greetings. After entering into 2012, Twitter, both site and API, went down by heavy load. According @dfnt, on unofficial Twitter traffic counting service Tweet Counter showed that the peak tweets at the midnight January 1, 2012 in Japan… Continue reading Japanese Tweets Likely Makes Another World Record On Twitter

Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year’s Eve Midnight

Telecommunications Carriers Association with all 5 Japanese cellphone carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au, Softbank Mobile, Wilcom and e-Access(who runs e-Mobile) issued release on December 21 [J], ask their users not to call or e-mail around and after the midnight of 2012’s new year’s eve. “Rabbit’s last, and dragon’s first request” line is from Chinese Zodiac,… Continue reading Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year’s Eve Midnight

Twitcmap – Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory

Twitcmap [J], run by a illustration sharing community Tinami [J], is a web service to try to make a huge map of the world’s largest self-publishing comic fair “Comic Market” [J], which is held twice in a year in Tokyo, in a user-generated style with utilizing Twitter. Comic Market official says that there are over… Continue reading Twitcmap – Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory

Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away

Livestar Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online brokerage service issued a released to apologize its trouble started around 10 a.m., during trading time on December 27. Livestar Securities web transaction service was completely inaccessible over 4 hours from 10 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. In their announcement, the trouble was caused by an outsourced company removing… Continue reading Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away

Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers

SOme 2-channel users tried to translate captions of popular ascii-art, drawing by letters they often post on 2-channel. 　　　　　　　　 ,-､　　　　　　　　　　　　,.-､　　　　　　　 ./:::::＼　　　　　　　　　／::::::ヽ　　　　　　　/::::::::::::;ゝ–──– ､._/::::::::::::::| 　　　　　　 /,.-‐””´ 　　　　　　　　＼:::::::::::| 　　　　　／　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ヽ､::::| 　　　　/　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ヽ| 　　　 l　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 l 　　　 .|　　　 ●　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　|　　　　Umm…. 　　　l　　, , ,　　　　　　　　　　　●　　　　 l 　　　　` ､　　　　　　(_人__丿　　　　､､､　… Continue reading Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers

Rakuten’s Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon

There have been consumers complaining that their Rakuten Super Point, virtual currency circulated in Japan’s largest online shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba and its affiliated services, had been disappeared, the record said that they had spend it on online game service Nexon. There are already over 100 Rakuten users reported to Rakuten that their points were… Continue reading Rakuten’s Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon