{"id":12645,"date":"2011-02-14T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12645"},"modified":"2011-02-14T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T11:36:17","slug":"february-2011-japan-it-links-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/february-2011-japan-it-links-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early part of Februrary news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/february-2011-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">(Part 2)<\/a><br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkan.jp\/news\/index_1734.html\">Otobank&#8217;s book reading app (by a voice actress) hit the 500,000 downloading records<\/a> &#8211; audiobook is not popular in Japan (not a car society) so this is rather unique success<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akbstrip.jp\/\">Akiba&#8217;s Trip &#8211; a game reproduces virtual Akihabara town<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Skylight Consulting announces the prize winners of their start-up challenge competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pronweb.tv\/release.php?code=3804\">U2Plus (web-based cure for melancholia) and Calling (connecting jobs and job seekers)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-03\/ipad-makes-space-in-japan-s-tiny-homes-by-removing-bookshelves.html\">Bloomberg: IPad Makes Space in Tiny Japan Homes by Removing Shelves<\/a> [En] &#8211; you may also be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nc20101117aa.html\">Akky&#8217;s Japan Times article on mobile e-book in Japan<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li>90&#8217;s Japanese Web Startup Icon Kiyoshi Nisikawa Brought Back His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netage.co.jp\/\">Netage, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.jp\/loveplus\/visa\/\">LovePlus VISA Card by Konami<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5751768\/cash-or-schoolgirl+covered-credit\">Kotaku covered<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3x4fa1\">LovePlus Nintendo 3DS Cosplay<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3x4fa1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/show\/thumb\/3x4fa1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/pickup\/20110203\/1034360\/\">Facebook Japan Taro Kodama&#8217;s new interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2011\/02\/04\/47208.html\">Minnano Sukkiri &#8211; Ordering Bookshelf Game Comes To Cellphone<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VQOp7F95R2c\">master&#8217;s playing demo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanesevw.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/lets-shake-girls-tits-with-android-apps.html\">Android App To Shake Virtual Girl Boobs<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1102\/04\/news089.html\">Mixi Sales 2% Down, Profit Increases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk.or.jp\/zero\/contents\/dsp334.html\">Japan&#8217;s Public Broadcasting NHK Features Vocaloid\/Hatsune Miku For 35 Minutes<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/vocaloid\/\">Vocaloid<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Japanese gear for kid&#8217;s bite improvement was introduced in several English blogs with fake English explanations, which tells it is for torturing children to laugh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweird.com\/2011012209\/news\/unusual-products\/japanese-inventor-creates-an-ingenious-way-to-make-your-kids-smile-3583\" rel=\"nofollow\">Newsweird<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2011\/02\/06\/japanese-invention-that-forces-children-to-smile\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Next Web<\/a> (the author wrote a comment that they do not care if it is real), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/02\/06\/smile-darn-ya-smile\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neatorama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/info.groupon.jp\/topics\/20110204-581.html\">Groupon Japan Tells Their Employee Lost A Note PC Having Clients Contacts And Mails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nicovideo.jp\/niconews\/2011\/02\/011345.html\">Nico Nico Douga Down For Half A Day. Paid Members Shut Out Whilst Free Users Could Watch<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nicovideo.jp\/niconews\/2011\/02\/011348.html\">Official Explains It Is Inevitable To Be Down With Current Sales From Paid Users<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/hiro.asks.jp\/76315.htm\">Hiroyuki Nishimura(2-Channel founder, Nico Nico advisor) Suggests Nico Nico Douga Should Go Back On New Services, Instead Of Spending Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hamusoku.com\/archives\/4075677.html\">Nico Nico Namahousou User Throws Bath Powder Into The Imprerial Moat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.esuteru.com\/archives\/2403244.html\">Japanese Really Enjoy Chinese Fake Gundam, Makes Many Parodies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chinese-fake-gundam-cool-draw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chinese-fake-gundam-cool-draw-249x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chinese-fake-gundam-cool-draw\" width=\"249\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12819\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/booklook.jp\/en\/\">Social Book-reading Facebook App Booklook Launches English Version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1102\/07\/news030.html\">Celebrities Allegations On Pay-Per-Post Over Penny Auction Denied By The Penny Auction Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/Mamipeko\/20110207\/p1\">Google Translate&#8217;s Bad Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/internet-piracy-boosts-anime-sales-study-concludes-110203\/\">Internet Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Study Concludes<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Japan Is Hiring Kindle-Related Jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/jp-amazon.icims.com\/jobs\/126987\/job\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jp-amazon.icims.com\/jobs\/129788\/job\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jp-amazon.icims.com\/jobs\/131491\/job\">3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/games\/123\/G012307\/20110208011\/\">Drango Releases Boobs Balance Game For Android<\/a> &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2010\/10\/08\/44937.html\">i-mode version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iknow.jp\/en\/2011\/02\/04\/on-user-courses-in-iknow\/\">iKnow! explains their handling of past user contributed data around its change to paid service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/akky\/statuses\/34884954684915712\">Chirpstory Used In TechCrunch Post, A Founder Reports<\/a> &#8211; That is how Togetter is used in Japanese web<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yfrog.com\/h7fxvzj\">Tokushima University Entrance Exam Asks To Compose Text By Using 2010 Net Buzz El Shadai Lines<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3zapxx\">El Shadai cookie<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3zapxx\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/show\/thumb\/3zapxx.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\"><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/el-shaddai-the-latest-japanese-internet-meme\/\">El Shadai boom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fsj2011\">Japan Facebook Academic Assosiation Established &#8211; Anyone &#8220;Like&#8221; The FB Page Can Join<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ITMedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1102\/09\/news078.html\">inquired<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/facebook-japan-takes-hard-line-banning-pseudo-names-and-requires-id\/\">Facebook&#8217;s pseudo name ban in Japan<\/a> [En]. Facebook HQ replied, &#8220;We recognize the issue. We are investigating.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news020.blog13.fc2.com\/blog-entry-1262.html\">AKB48&#8217;s New Business Model. Threats Fans To Buy Mobile Virtual Points, Otherwise Her Program Will Be Stopped<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rocketnews24.com\/?p=70459\">BBQ Shop Runs 100 Yen Smorgusboard, 99% Discount By Retweets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketnews24.com\/?p=72811\">photo report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crocro.com\/write\/android\/wiki.cgi?p=%A5%DE%A5%F3%A5%AC%A4%C7%CA%AC%A4%AB%A4%EBAndroid%B3%AB%C8%AF%B4%C4%B6%AD%B9%BD%C3%DB%CA%FD%CB%A1\">Manga Guide To Make Android Development Environment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/13357\">Pankaku&#8217;s Social Smartphone SDK Gains 5 Million End Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/wadai\/news\/20110210k0000e040066000c.html\">iPhone Women&#8217;s Club Has 3,000 Members in Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1102\/10\/news090.html\">Yuka Okada(@yukatan), A Popular ITMedia Editor Leaves The Company<\/a>. Retirement speech will be broadcasted on Nico Nico Namahousou(=livestream)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/general\/news\/p-gn-tp0-20110210-735341.html\">Anonymous Shinjyuku Random Killing Notice Frightens Web Users<\/a> &#8211; Police arrested the person, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/general\/news\/p-gn-tp0-20110213-736475.html\">turned out to be a 15 yo junior high school student, who posted the threats on Nintendo DSi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globis.jp\/1571\">Gree CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka&#8217;s Long Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early part of Februrary news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Otobank&#8217;s book reading app (by a voice actress) hit the 500,000 downloading records &#8211; audiobook is not popular in Japan (not a car society) so this is rather&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/february-2011-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-it-links","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}