{"id":14183,"date":"2011-05-26T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14183"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T00:37:02","slug":"may-2011-japan-it-links-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/may-2011-japan-it-links-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/may-2011-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">(Part 1)<\/a>. Middle part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article.  Continued to <a href=\"\">(Part 3)<\/a><br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/article\/2011\/05\/10\/76792.html\/\">KDDI introduces the Android app on which a nice-looking guy tells you what the date it is.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/caili.allabout.co.jp\">All About Japan launches a fashion and trend portal for Chinese womens.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.livedoor.com\/article\/detail\/5547929\/\">NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank introduce the Android AR app to navigate you to the nearest branch or teller machine.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pioneer.jp\/press\/2011\/0509-1.html\">Pioneer&#8217;s New AR Car Navigation System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/watch\/sm14365038\">The Ultimate Machine Upgraded<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.yahoo.co.jp\/d061333\/folder\/1043931.html\">creator<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UmQ5LsNMXZ4\">copied to YouTube<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/service\/35002522\/\">NetMile And Modiphi To Provide Like-For-Virtual-Points Program For Enterprise Facebook Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Batara Eto&#8217;s Photo Sharing Service Ficia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ficia.com\/2011\/05\/11\/185\/\">To Cease At The End Of June<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionsnap.com\/news\/2011-05-11\/yoshitoku-darthvader\/\">Japanese Samurai Doll Vendor Releases Darth Vader Doll On Its 300th Anniversary<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/geek-news.mtv.com\/2011\/05\/12\/samurai-darth-vader-ditches-the-lightsaber-for-cold-steel\/\">English<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/today\/news\/20110512k0000m040120000c.html\">Japan&#8217;s First Arrest On YouTube Upload &#8211; Boys Group Arashi Concert Movie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/074\/index.html\">Mobage for Smartphone App Version Begins On Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese.engadget.com\/2011\/05\/12\/android-au-kddi\/\">KDDI au To Provide Simplified Menu For Android<\/a>. ref. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpro.co.uk\/news\/367522\/q-a-how-todays-tech-alienates-the-elderly\">How today&apos;s tech alienates the elderly | PC Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/084\/index.html\">Japan Represents For World Cosplay Summit Will Be Chosen By Using Facebook Like<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.arena.ne.jp\/cgi-bin\/cloud9\/news.cgi?target=20110508021253\">NTT Communication&#8217;s Cloud Service Cloud9 Stops For Over A Week<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/column\/20110511\/1035590\/\">Facebook&#8217;s Javier Olivan Told Nikkei That Facebook Japan Increased Half A Million Every Month<\/a>. &#8211; Well, it increased half a million <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/facebook-japan-paused-growth-by-earthquake-but-gains-back-from-china\/\">once<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/news_release\/2011\/05\/13_01.html\">Twitter-Docomo Strategic Alliance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/special\/10005\/TKY201105110380.html\">Triump&#8217;s This Year Bra Is &#8220;Support Japan Bra&#8221; With Messages From The World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ifutaba.appspot.com\/\">(4chan&#8217;s Origin)Futaba-channel iPhone Viewer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jp.twitter.com\/2011\/05\/twitter-japan.html\">Twitter Japan Is Hiring Customer Support\/Localization Staff (one person who can do both)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hanage.info\">Chorori, a funny web service that helps you anonymously notify someone that his\/her nose hair shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/juggly.cn\/archives\/28561.html\">Docomo&#8217;s 2011 Summer Model Catalog Leaked<\/a>. on the morning of the press conference<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/docomoofficial\">Docomo&#8217;s summer model press conference on Ustream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hatena.g.hatena.ne.jp\/hatenapress\/20110516\/1305527322\">Hatena Releases Hatena Bookmark Chrome App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miraikioku.com\/\">Google Japan Opens Pre-Earthquake Tohoku Commemoration Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlejapan.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/chrome-12.html\">Google Japan Announces 12 Japanese Web Apps On Chrome Web Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialbakers.com\/places\/country\/japan\/\">Popular Facebook Places in Japan Are Full Of Int&#8217;l Airports, Tokyo And Shinkansen Stations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aubyKDDI\">KDDI au&#8217;s Official Facebook Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Naked Technology launches <a href=\"http:\/\/potofo.to\">Potofo.to<\/a>, a web service that allows you to share pics only w\/ private contacts of ur FB conection.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trippiece.com\">Trippiece<\/a> launches a social network that allows users to share travel experience about the cities they&#8217;ve been to. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.internet.com\/allnet\/20110517\/5.html\/\">Fujitsu and Arkray jointly intros consulting service for diabetics, using a set of cellphone and blood glucose checker.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/mobile\/articles\/1105\/16\/news134.html\/\">@rarejob_jp, a start-up providing on-Skype Eng teaching by native speakers, partners w\/ KDDI and intros the Android app.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Dg5oBZz-Es\">UEC Tokyo Researches Touch Panel Giving Feedbacks On Your Other Palm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koozyt.com\/press\/2011\/pr110516.html\">Koozyt And NHN Japan Releases AR Idol Camera App On Android<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhncorp.jp\/press\/files\/PRESS_20110516111007.pdf\">release by NHN Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebook.itmedia.co.jp\/ebook\/articles\/1105\/18\/news037.html\">Roudoku Shoujyo&#8217;s Male Version Roudoku Shitsuji(Butler)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ponpare.jp\/shinjyuku\/deal\/0016305.html?vos=evpappr00026x0000193\">Pompare Selling Over 500,000 McDonalds Coupon(500yen) For 100yen.<\/a> It&#8217;s not McDonald&#8217;s promotion but Recruit itself&#8217;s. they seem to want more registered members. They did it before with Haagen-Dazs.<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo! Japan ID Rumored To Be Hacked And Leaked. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.yahoo.co.jp\/yj_pr_blog\/19966817.html\">Yahoo! Japan Officially Denied There Were No Such Incident.<\/a> Some say that it might be caused by people complaining who gave their Yahoo! Japan Mail password to Facebook&#8217;s friend search.<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo! Loco&#8217;s Postponed Release(from April 1st by earthquake) Set On June 1st (from newsletter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shakediary.blog93.fc2.com\/blog-entry-3431.html\">48yo Japanese male cosplayer wearing girl&#8217;s clothes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adidas.com\/jp\/corporate\/01company\/0519.asp\">Adidas Japan Apologizes Their Rookie Employee Leaked A Soccer Player Info Over Twitter<\/a>. Later she was reported to leave the company only after one month work, likely because of this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/natalie.mu\/oyatsu\">Natalie Launches A News Site For Afternoon Snack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/news_release\/2011\/05\/19_00.html\">Docomo Enhances Pay-Over-Cellphone service. Raised Limit To 200,000 Yen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sneakernews.com\/2011\/05\/19\/super-mario-bros-x-converse-chuck-taylor-all-star-packaging\/\">Super Mario x Converse Collaboration Model To Be Released In July<\/a> [En] <\/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>Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. KDDI introduces the Android app on which a nice-looking guy tells you what the date it is. All About Japan launches a fashion and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/may-2011-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)<\/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-14183","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\/14183","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=14183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}