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Saitoh-San – iPhone Chatroulette For All Whose Name are Saitoh

Saitoh-san(斉藤さん) by Yudo Inc. is a new iOS application which let any Mr. or Ms. Saitoh and Saitoh-fans connect over voice-chat and video chat. # “-san” is a Japanese form of honorific title If your surname is Saitoh, you may press “Saitoh-san is here” button and wait other’s call. If you want to chat with… Continue reading Saitoh-San – iPhone Chatroulette For All Whose Name are Saitoh

TeleBing – Microsoft Releases TV Guide App For iPhone/iPad

TeleBing, named after television and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is an iOS application for Japanese TV watchers to show TV program schedules. Microsoft Japan released it “to promote Bing brand.” The program guide works with Twitter and Facebook. From program detail page, you may share your comments to Twitter and/or Facebook. Japanese TV programs data… Continue reading TeleBing – Microsoft Releases TV Guide App For iPhone/iPad

Nailap – Nail Art Photo Sharing Service For iPhone

Saitama-based company Pocara [J] released a new iPhone social camera application “Nailapp”, dedicated for nail decoration lovers. We covered some geeky nail-arts by Japanese girls before. As well as other countries, there are not so many ladies in industry so having those techy nail art may show how popular nailing in Japan. Must-have feature for… Continue reading Nailap – Nail Art Photo Sharing Service For iPhone

Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

Gakufu Camera [J] (gakufu = music score) is an iPhone app released by music instrument vendor Kawai. The camera application lets you scan music score by camera, recognize musical notes in real-time, play the recognized notes. (“the world’s first real-time music score recognition”, as they claim. probably on smartphone I guess.) The app can recognize… Continue reading Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

Nyotaigoyomi: Page-a-day Calendar Girls App

Nyotai-Goyomi (=girl’s body calendar. The word nyotai is the same one in notorious nyotai mori) is a set of girls’ photos who has date drawn somewhere on her skin. The date drawn on girls seem to be in various formats including Japanese digits. If you don’t understand Japanese date notations, these apps may be not… Continue reading Nyotaigoyomi: Page-a-day Calendar Girls App

DeNA Recruits Legendary Japanese Game Designers Into “Super Creators” Initiative

In a press conference yesterday, DeNA announced [J] the formation of the “Super Creators” initiative, an all-star team of five veteran game designers from the traditional Japanese games industry who will create social smartphone games for Mobage. All games will be published by AQ Interactive. The veteran game designers include: Keiji Inafune: Legendary game designer formerly employed… Continue reading DeNA Recruits Legendary Japanese Game Designers Into “Super Creators” Initiative

iPhone App Helps You Predict Next Vacant Seat On Commuting Train

This app can be used everywhere, but probably it is only needed in Tokyo. Densha de Suwaru (sitting down on train) by Velc is a newly released free iPhone application to make your own database of passengers whom you commute with every morning and night. On the app, for each other passenger you will make… Continue reading iPhone App Helps You Predict Next Vacant Seat On Commuting Train

Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!

Angry Jobs is an Android game developed by Japanese Studio Hitori (“hitori” in Japanese means “one man”), who is also selling an iPad Twitter Client TwitRocker. In the game, you play a guy who is wearing black turtleneck and blue jeans to shoot falling green Androids with shuriken, a Japanese ninja flying dagger. Swiping your… Continue reading Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!

Ultra High-speed Japanese Typing On iPhone

It is known that Japanese high school girls type Japanese so fast on feature phone 10 digits key, but this person on iPhone could be faster than they. On Japanese flick input training app, he writes up 45 letters/5 phrases in 6.99 seconds, which is 386 letters per minute. [Update] Another high-speed iPhone Japanese type… Continue reading Ultra High-speed Japanese Typing On iPhone