Advertising Council Japan (AC Japan) has been mostly a sole commercial providers on Japanese commercial TV stations for a week since the East Japan Earthquake occured. As most regular companies did not want to play their commercial with fear of criticized as inconsiderate during many people are in deep grief, all commercial stations (i.e. non… Continue reading Placeholder Public Service Commercial Buzzed Crazy In Japan
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Becomes Fan-made Anime
Yukio Edano (Wikipedia), Japanese cabinet’s chief secretary in Kan government, who has been a spokesperson on the East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Crisis, got himself a name from Japanese, especially from web users by his non-stopping work which is likened to Jack Bauer. This time, a professional Japanese anime creator Yosuke Kihara [J], known by “Conie-chan” on… Continue reading Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano Becomes Fan-made Anime
After The Quake: Social Apps And Web Trends To Help Disaster Relief Efforts
Here’s a follow-up to my previous posts covering the grassroots movements to relieve the devastated areas. GPS-Enabled Map of Scheduled Blackouts: A team of web app developers Boss Yooann, Kabaken, Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi and Yuki Naotori has released this Google Map mash-up. Without entering your address, it helps you find which hour of the day your… Continue reading After The Quake: Social Apps And Web Trends To Help Disaster Relief Efforts
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Starts Twitter
Following to the Prime Minister Office’s English account on 16th and Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) on 17th, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force(JGSDF) begins to tweet on @JGSDF_pr. The first 4 tweets on Mar 21 are, reported opening of account for PR. asked to follow. many personnel are now sent to the disaster area, and FAX messages… Continue reading Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Starts Twitter
All Star Developers Running Hackathon To Build Disaster Info Services
Many web companies and individuals are now running a nation-wide, virtual and real (Kyoto, Okayama and Fukuoka in West Japan) hackathon (collaborative programming marathon, see Wikipedia) named “Hack for Japan” [J] through this three days weekend (Monday is holiday, Spring equinox day, in Japan). Several companies are offering APIs, cloud hosting and data for the… Continue reading All Star Developers Running Hackathon To Build Disaster Info Services
Earthquake Relief – Feeding Info On Maps And Twitter
For the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, there have been many food and water distribution supplied in all prefectures in Tohoku and Ibaraki pref. To make suffered people know the info, volunteers are collaborating on making and maintaining database by using Google Maps. The name is Takidashi Map (Takidashi = feeding, soup run… Continue reading Earthquake Relief – Feeding Info On Maps And Twitter
Acima Provides Hotline Over IM For Non-Japanese Disaster Victims
Japan based international-business consulting company Acima is offering emergency hotline over Skype and MSN Messenger for 24 hours in 15 languages, by using its own resource and forming volunteers from around the world. Acima has set up a hotline for non Japanese speaking Disaster Victims of Tohoku district – off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake. We… Continue reading Acima Provides Hotline Over IM For Non-Japanese Disaster Victims
Roppongi Hills To Offer In-House Generating Electricity To Suffering Tokyo
Mori Buildings announced [J] that Roppongi Hills, office/shopping-mall/residents complex, one of the center of Tokyo and Japan’s web industry, where currently Google Japan and Gree reside, once Yahoo! Japan, Rakuten and Livedoor had their offices, is going to provide electricity from its private gas turbine generator to Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) to make up for… Continue reading Roppongi Hills To Offer In-House Generating Electricity To Suffering Tokyo
Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) Starts Twitter To Provide Updates
Another new Twitter account follows to the Prime Minister’s Office’s English version Twitter comes tonight around 9 p.m. by Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO), who has been tackling two difficult problems, Fukushima nuclear plant radiation leak and possible blackout of greater Tokyo, after the Japan’s earthquake. This Japanese Twitter account quickly got over 50,000 followers, which… Continue reading Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) Starts Twitter To Provide Updates
Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan
Japanese Location based service Coropura(Colopl.jp) makes a map of east Japan to show where its users checked in the day before [J]. The hex displayed on the map means there were at least one check in yesterday. The map has a choice of cellphone carriers, Docomo/au/Softbank. Docomo must have more users and good coverage. The… Continue reading Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan