Allatanys – Three Major Japanese Newspapers’ Online Challenge Silently Taken Down

Allatanys, an website where you may read headline news from three of Japan’s most published newspapers in parallel, run by Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei, has ceased yeasterday, February 29, 2012. The site top shows a short text with background image which makes the text hard to read. The text tells, “Allatanys site has… Continue reading Allatanys – Three Major Japanese Newspapers’ Online Challenge Silently Taken Down

Asahi Shimbun Follows To Nikkei, Digital Subscription Starts Today

Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest newspapers in Japan and the world, is to start “Asahi Shimbun Digital” at 3 p.m. today, May 18th 2011, which is seen on its teaser page [J] (thanks @kansai_takako). The teaser page does not tell much, but I think the “digital” means paid-subscription of online version, like Nikkei has… Continue reading Asahi Shimbun Follows To Nikkei, Digital Subscription Starts Today

Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month

As we reported the leaked info last month, Japan’s industrial newspaper Nikkei Shimbun (Nikkei is abbreviation of Nihon Keizai = Japan’s economy) is to begin their paid online version since March 23rd 2010. The service name is “The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Digital Version”, nicknameed “Web-Kan”. This “Kan” means “publish” in Japanese. As rumoured, the subscription… Continue reading Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month

Internet Ads Overtakes Newspaper To Become No.2 After Television In Japan

Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertisement agency, published its annual Japan’s advertising expenditures report. [J, pdf] According to the report, Dentsu estimates that advertisers spend 7.77 billion USD (1.2% growth) more on the Internet than on newspaper advertising 7.40 billion in 2009, first time in history. The No.1 television earned 18.84 billion, which is 10.2% decreased.… Continue reading Internet Ads Overtakes Newspaper To Become No.2 After Television In Japan

Blame Internet Over The Fewest Homicides. What!?

Two of Japan’s most authoritative newspapers, Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei Shimbun both put a very similar notes on their front editorial on January 29th, which made net users upset. Both referred the statistical trend which had been announced by The National Police Agency. The number of homicides and homicide attempts in 2009 was 1,097, and… Continue reading Blame Internet Over The Fewest Homicides. What!?

The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say

Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei) [Wikipedia], one of the most influential industrial newspaper in Japan, who had declared its digital version launch plan for this spring on its January 3rd newspaper, seems to set its starting time and fee plan, according to multiple sources. Both February issue of Facta magazine [J, magazine subscription required] and… Continue reading The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say

Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed

As we reported a week ago, national newspaper Asahi Shimbun began a twitter experiment reporting soccer match by national team for the World Cup. The tweeted reports were well-received by web users, but some web people worried that the too frank and personal-sounding tweets may make the main readers of the newspaper, elders, upset. Then… Continue reading Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed

NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone

Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo started selling the brand-new smartphone BlackBerry Bold (BBB) from Research In Motion(RIM) recently, but the operator halted[J] sales after only a week since its introduction, because the handset has reportedly overheated while the battery is being recharged. By the way, we covered a couple of  stories about newspaper apps… Continue reading NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone

Three Newspapers’ App: Highly Ranked But Not Highly Rated

Regarding the three newspaper companies’ iPhone/iPod app “Allatanys” that was covered in my previous post, it is at the top of the free app section in the Japanese App Store.    But it has attained only two stars in the five-star-rating system.    Why is this? The App Store’s ranking list is based on the number… Continue reading Three Newspapers’ App: Highly Ranked But Not Highly Rated

Three Major Japanese Newspapers Collectively Introduce iPhone/iPod App

The three major Japanese newspaper companies in the Nikkei–Asahi–Yomiuri Internet Business Partnership introduced their free iPhone/iPod app on Wednesday, enabling news stories from these papers to be read side by side.   The partnership was formed almost a year ago to launch a website bringing news stories from the three different papers together in one place.… Continue reading Three Major Japanese Newspapers Collectively Introduce iPhone/iPod App