Tag: Japan

How Japanese Over Thirty Feel NEC’s Joint Venture With Lenovo

A week ago, China’s Lenovo and Japan’s top-shared PC vendor NEC announced to merge their PC business and to establish a joint venture company. Lenovo and NEC say they will create a joint venture to form the largest PC business in Japan. The new entity, NEC Lenovo Group Japan, brings together Japan’s top PC company… Continue reading How Japanese Over Thirty Feel NEC’s Joint Venture With Lenovo

Think You’ve Got What It Takes? iPhone App For Japanese Thugs’ Rite of Passage

photo by Macotakara [J] Studio MorikenStudio Moriken [J] has released a free iPhone application called Konjoyaki that lets users experience a piece of Japanese Yankee culture. “Yankee” in Japan does not mean North American – it refers to “bad boys” or “thugs”. The name of the app (‘Konjoyaki’ – literally “Burn, with guts”) comes from… Continue reading Think You’ve Got What It Takes? iPhone App For Japanese Thugs’ Rite of Passage

Copyright Mark May Mean “Miss” For Japanese Teens

You know what copyright mark © means, don’t you? It should be common for all cultures that young generation try to differentiate themselves by changing their languages from adult. In this case with Japanese teenager girls, they have been using © for totally different purpose since mid 1990’s. Here is an image from monthly teens’… Continue reading Copyright Mark May Mean “Miss” For Japanese Teens

Japanese Virtual World Anime Film Aims At Oscar

Are you interested in the virtual world and Japanese anime film? Then, let’s check the “Summer Wars”. “Summer wars” is a Japanese anime film released in 2009 summer in Japan. The screening has just begun in U.S.A. on December 24. Story Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the… Continue reading Japanese Virtual World Anime Film Aims At Oscar

myGengo Opens $45,000 API Lab To Support Third Party Developers

Having raised $585,000 in angel investments this summer, Tokyo-based human translation start-up myGengo has set aside $45,000 to support third-party developers with their new API Lab. The API Lab is a place for developers to experiment with the myGengo API, build plug-ins for third-party platforms, and win cash prizes. While myGengo has offered crowd-sourced translation through their homepage – the… Continue reading myGengo Opens $45,000 API Lab To Support Third Party Developers

“Zombie Japanese” – Chinese Derogatory Term Referring Japan Anthropomorphized

Like as “Jap” in some English countries, there are Chinese words for insulting Japan/Japanese. One of the popular words is Riben Guizi(日本鬼子), which means “Zombie Japanese” in Chinese (“Devil’s Children Japanese” in Japanese, slightly different). The word is often used to talk about Imperial Japan’s army during WWII, but still seen on Chinese web especially… Continue reading “Zombie Japanese” – Chinese Derogatory Term Referring Japan Anthropomorphized

Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications

On October 27th, NTT Communications announced [J] that they would cooperate with Indiana-based ExactTarget to promote their enterprise Twitter client for customer service CoTweet for Japan. They agreed to proceed developments of Japanese language localization and customization for Japanese companies. NTT Communications will provide technical assist, Japanese marketing, sales and Japanese support for paid Japanese… Continue reading Twitter CRM Service CoTweet To Enter Japan Assisted By NTT Communications

QR Code Blog – Written Only In QR Code

QR Code seems getting popularity in West because of smartphone. There are a lot of interesting ad campaigns utilizing QR Code recently in English. There was also a news that Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl supported QR code generation, then Bit.ly followed the trend this week. Some of you might know that QR Code marketing… Continue reading QR Code Blog – Written Only In QR Code