Yokohama DeNA Baystars, which became real on December 1st by an acquisition by DeNA, a company runs social game networking service Mobage, announced [J] the new team logo on December 9. Its “DeNA” part is not so similar with the DeNA’s company logo. The former logo of Yokohama Baystars was this, Yokohama Baystars was one… Continue reading Yokohama DeNA Baystars Now Has A New Logo
Japan Airlines To Start The World’s First In-Flight e-Comic Next Spring
Japan’s national carrier Japan Airlines(JAL) announced the world’s first digital manga(Japanese comic) service “Sky Manga” on board with one of the nation’s largest publisher Shogakukan and digital publishing company eBook Initiative Japan [J]. The new service will be a part of new Boeing 787 debut on JAL. The service will start from March 2012, 90… Continue reading Japan Airlines To Start The World’s First In-Flight e-Comic Next Spring
Google+ Occupied By AKB48 Within A Day In Japan
After the unexpected collaboration announcement by Google and AKB48 project yesterday, Japanese Google+ scene is very reactivated. The word by Google’s product VP Bradley Horowitz, who is visiting Japan (likely) for the AKB48 announcement is good how huge it is in Japan, If you don’t know AKB48, you don’t live in Japan (or in fact,… Continue reading Google+ Occupied By AKB48 Within A Day In Japan
Facebook Banned Ryoma Sakamoto, A Person Having The Same Name With A Historical Hero
A Tokyo guy whose name is Ryoma Sakamoto complained on Twitter that he had been banned from Facebook as he was using a fake name. Facebookが突然使えなくなった。「あなたのアカウントは、登録されている名前が実名でなかったため、停止されました。」本名なんですが…。 — 坂本龍馬 (@ryomanow) December 8, 2011 “I was suddenly unable to access Facebook. ‘Your account was suspended because your using name is not a real name’, which is not… Continue reading Facebook Banned Ryoma Sakamoto, A Person Having The Same Name With A Historical Hero
Cookpad’s Listing To Be Transfered To The First Section
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) announced Wednesday it will elevate Cookpad, a Tokyo-based recipe web service operator, to the First Section from the Mothers Section effective December 15. Moving from Mothers or the second section to the first section generally means that the company is evaluated better, stable. Early this year, I wrote how Rakuten… Continue reading Cookpad’s Listing To Be Transfered To The First Section
Gree CEO Talks To National Paper Readers By A Full-Page Ad
December 8 morning, Japanese major newspapers like Yomiuri, Asahi and Nikkei, sum of the number of their print will be around 20 million issues every morning, had a full-page ad almost only with text, which is by Gree CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka. http://twitpic.com/7pfyvq The text is also publicized on Gree’s company page [J]. It has about… Continue reading Gree CEO Talks To National Paper Readers By A Full-Page Ad
AKB48 Now On Google+ – Google’s Marketing Challenge
Japan’s popular girls idol corps AKB48 announces with Google that all of its members opened Google+ page today December 8. Google Japan cooperates to set up a special page you can browse all, or by AKB48 and its sister-groups. [Update] Nikkei reports [J] that this is a collaboration project between AKB48 and U.S. Google. According… Continue reading AKB48 Now On Google+ – Google’s Marketing Challenge
Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue
Kristopher Tate is an American-born serial entrepreneur who had appeared many times on TechCrunch by his photo-sharing start up Zooomr founded at his age of 17. TechCrunch’s database had not tracked him later but he migrated to Tokyo with Zooomr with seeing more possibility in Japan and Japanese web in 2007, has been actively developing… Continue reading Young American Serial Entrepreneur Faces Harsh Criticism Over Free-By-Ads WiFi Service Privacy Issue
Presentation: DeNA, Mobage, GREE – Demystifying Japan’s Social Gaming Market
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s social gaming sector, in which I am analyzing some key areas and companies (especially DeNA and GREE) of this rapidly growing industry. In particular, the presentation is focused on the local social gaming market, the differences to markets in the US and elsewhere, and future… Continue reading Presentation: DeNA, Mobage, GREE – Demystifying Japan’s Social Gaming Market
3-Minutes Video Tutorial Site For Programming Learners "Dotinstall" Launches
Two popular Japanese bloggers, @taguchi[J] and @fkoji[J], launched new video tutorial site called dotinstall[J], which is aimed at ultra-beginner of programming. The site currently provides about 300 video tutorials, ranging from HTML basics to Creating Concentration game using Javascript, all of which last just about 3 minutes long. All the videos are recorded in Japanese… Continue reading 3-Minutes Video Tutorial Site For Programming Learners "Dotinstall" Launches