Fuji Television (Fuji TV), a Tokyo key station who has nationwide network, announced their coming Spring drama program which features Twitter. The drama “Sunao ni Narenakute” [J], which directly means “I cannot be honest.” in English, but it is also the same as the translation of Chicago’s song “Hard to Say I’m Sorry“. The synopsis… Continue reading The First Twitter Drama Starts In April In Japan
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January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. METI Lottery In Exchange For Used Cellphone Campaign Collaborates Hatsune Miku Chinese Guy In Saitama Arrested By Providing Proxy Servers For Chinese Gamers To Play… Continue reading January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
Real time speech translation is the hot topic in last few days because of Google’s speech-to-speech translation development news and our reported Japanese government experiment. However, translation among human languages seems far behind Canis language translation, you can tell if you are a native dog language speaker (unfortunately I am not). BowLingual, Dog-to-human language translator… Continue reading Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan
Japan’s legendary reality television show comes back with heavy usage of Twitter. Denpa Shonen 2010 (Denpa Shonen = Radio-Wave Boy), a successor program of the Susume Denpa Shonen, which started in 1992, is running their new program under the same producer (Producer T). The program name is “Denpa Shonen 2010 – Hito-wa Tsubuyaki Dakede Ikite… Continue reading Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan
Twitter Followers Serves You Free Sushi, Boardgame And More In Japan
Suddenly in Japan, small shop owners start thinking Twitter as a guerilla marketing tool. Ashton Kutcher could have eaten over $40,000 worth sushi in Tokyo if he knew it. The first one was a board game shop Sugorokuya(@sugorokuya) [J] at Koenji of west Tokyo, which offered “discount by number of your Twitter followers” campaign [J]… Continue reading Twitter Followers Serves You Free Sushi, Boardgame And More In Japan
Weekly Diamond Featured Twitter For 40 Pages, Reprinted
One of the most read Japanese business magazine (such like Forbes or Businessweek), Shuukan Daiyamondo(Weekly Diamond) January 23th 2010 issue, featured Twitter as a special topic for 40 pages. Both of the cover of the magazine and the first page of the featured section, thousands of Japanese Twitter user icons, which had been called for… Continue reading Weekly Diamond Featured Twitter For 40 Pages, Reprinted
Twitter Japan Enables Retweet Button
Twitter has turned on official retweet button for Japanese users. You could use it by changing your menu language with English, but most Japanese users see this button first this week. The label of the retweet button in Japanese is “リツイート” which just show its English sound in Japanese katakana (phonogramic alphabet). Japanese localization staff… Continue reading Twitter Japan Enables Retweet Button
Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System
As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possible domains both in Roman alphabets and Japanese (international domain name) were quickly occupied.… Continue reading Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System
Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi
On the first day of this new year, Kanagawa-headquartered funny web app developer Kayac launched a new service which allows you to decorate your Twitter icon with sushi items. The service, which is named Twitter Sushi, works in conjunction with Twitter, you are allowed to choose a sushi from varieties such as a chunky omelet… Continue reading Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi
Spoofing PM Tweets Cause Confusion, The Cabinet Office To Move Up The Day Of Real Account Launch
A cabinet advisor unveiled recently that Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama would start using Twitter in the beginning of next year to let the people know how the government is working on political issues. On the Christmas day in prior to his first “REAL” tweet, someone (an ex-theater writer a.k.a. a blogosphere fussbudget) has pretended… Continue reading Spoofing PM Tweets Cause Confusion, The Cabinet Office To Move Up The Day Of Real Account Launch