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A Summary of the Latest Studies about Japan & Social Media
2011 was not only a year that changed the geography of Japan but also a year that drastically altered the way Japanese people use social media. Facebook came out of nowhere and increased its user base …
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Experiment: Can You Identify Twitter Users In Tokyo?
A Japanese column media Omocoro [J] ran an interesting test in Shibuya, one of the most crowded area in Tokyo. A writer Sebuyama tries to find a random person whose tweets show he/she is in Shibuya. …
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Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter's Top 3 Trending Keywords
Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that its PC version top page, the most accessed page in Japan, starts offering the top three trending keywords from Twitter, named with …
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Mangajet Makes Your Tweet Into A Comic-style Illustration
Mangajet [J] is a new Japanese service which let you make a Japanese manga-comic style illustration with provided characters, background images, baloons with your text. The generated comic strip can …
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Not Only Tokyo - Twitter Japan Adds 6 More Japanese Cities On Trending Topics
Twitter added more choices of cities on its trending keywords in Japan on February 2. There were only all-Japan and Tokyo rankings before. 6 cities, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sendai …
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Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book
Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger …
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Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results
NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo, a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo …
