Un-breakout – Burokku-Kuzushi Game Reversed

Burokku Kuzusasnu (not destructing blocks) is a new browser game released by @utyo on January 19, and quickly buzzed in Japan. The game is based on Brokku Kuzushi (block destruciton), a category points clone games of legendary 1972 Atari Breakout. But on this Burokku Kuzusanu, your goal is totally opposite, try not to break blocks.… Continue reading Un-breakout – Burokku-Kuzushi Game Reversed

Yahoo! Messenger [J] To Shut Down

Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that it would terminate its messenger service “Yahoo! Messenger” at 3 p.m. on March 26, 2014. Yahoo! Messenger was one of the most popular messenger services for Japanese Internet users, competed against Skype and MSN Messenger. (MSN Messenger, aka Windows Live Messenger, was also stopped after Microsoft got Skype) Yahoo! Japan… Continue reading Yahoo! Messenger [J] To Shut Down

Rakuten Purchases The Name Of Miyagi Baseball Stadium For Kobo

NHK reported that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, who owns a professional baseball team Tohoku Rakuten Goleden Eagles in the top leagues, purchased the naming right of the home stadium in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Wikipedia: Jet-0 The Miyagi Stadium, which name has been Kleenex Stadium Miyagi, will be changed to Rakuten Kobo Stadium. It must be… Continue reading Rakuten Purchases The Name Of Miyagi Baseball Stadium For Kobo

Japan’s 4th Largest Convenience Chain-store To Use Rakuten Super Points

According to Sankei reported [J], Circle-K-Sunkus, the 4th largest convenience chain-store, announced on November 17th that it would replace its own reward points system with e-commerce giant Rakuten’s Rakuten Super Points. Sales ranking of convenience store chains (2011) These 4 groups occupied nearly 90% of domestic market. chains sales(billion yen) Seven Eleven 3281 Lawson 1826… Continue reading Japan’s 4th Largest Convenience Chain-store To Use Rakuten Super Points

Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In

Japanese Twittersphere, one of the most active languages on Twitter, was confused by a simple but very effective viral trick since last week. Since October 15, tweets with sensational titles of videos with a link to liveplaylist.net began to appear on people’s Twitter timelines among Japanese. The tweets has the same format: plays “(title, usually… Continue reading Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In

Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo

Mixi released an new iPhone app “Mixi Talk”, which enables users to send Mixi message with stamps and photos. [app id:698125920] No such application found. Maybe deleted? Embed iPhone/iPad App Mixi has been offering an official iOS app, which covers more features from PC/feature-phone Mixi. This message app seems to try to stop losing users… Continue reading Mixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo

Veoh Likely Aquired By Japanese FC2

First pointed out by someone on Hatena Anonymous Diary, online video service Veoh‘s ownership seems to be handed over to FC2, a huge but scarcely known Japanese everything-portal. FC2 sent a mail to users, soliciting to use Veoh, as s/he wrote. Veoh’s copyright on footer now has “FC2”. According to the Internet Archive, this copyright… Continue reading Veoh Likely Aquired By Japanese FC2

Ranking★TV By GREE Recommends Popular TV Shows

Gree Inc. [J] has released Ranking★TV [J], an application for iOS which recommends popular TV programs before being broadcast, based on a ranking system.  It uses Toshiba’s REGZA cloud service “TimeOn,” and download is free. “Ranking TV” is an app which is based on statistical data from Toshiba compatible TVs, BD and DVD recorders all… Continue reading Ranking★TV By GREE Recommends Popular TV Shows