{"id":16674,"date":"2012-01-30T00:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:19:48","slug":"japans-web-news-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/japans-web-news-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Web News Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Japanese Web\/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.asahi.com\/articles\/OSK201201200204.html\">Navit Allegedly Manipulates Reviews On @Cosme By Using Trial Samples And Reward<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navit-j.com\/press\/press0121.html\">Navit counter-release said that it is not manipulation but request.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/auone.jp\/android\/advertising\/03.html\">KDDI au Offers Opt-Out From Targeted Ads, But You Need To Call Them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/\">Asahi Newspaper&#8217;s Online Asahi.com Brand Merged Into Asahi Shimbun Digital<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/shimbun\/release\/20120123.pdf\">release<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/internet.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20120123_506735.html\">Internet Watch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mynavi.jp\/news\/2012\/01\/23\/044\/index.html\">A Time Recorder Service Supports Twitter In and Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/event.nicovideo.jp\/event\/ev120\">Hitler Movie Downfall To Hit Nico Nico Douga &#8211; 97.4% Of It Are For Free<\/a> &#8211; Only 3 min 59 sec you need to pay. Guess which part of the movie is the paid zone!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/national\/update\/0120\/OSK201201200106.html\">A Cat Having Identical Face On His Groin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/noodol-cafe.com\/\">A Cafe Idols Serving Instant Noodle For $10 Opens In Akihabara<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/insidears\/archives\/52520624.html\">report on TV from 2ch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/8asxgt\">Snowed Tokyo Lets Twitter Users Made A Snow-Woman<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/twitpic.com\/8asxgt\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onhook.tumblr.com\/post\/16348237742\">Google Japan Office And Super Engineers On NHK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/p.twipple.jp\/9r269\">Yamanote-Line Delay Caused Docomo Cellphone Network Congested<\/a> &#8211; Docomo shop poster. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tokachin_\/status\/162022173119229953\">It is a bit more complicated.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/news\/headline\/article\/g=96958A9C9381949EE0E7E2E58B8DE0E7E2E3E0E2E3E0E2E2E2E2E2E2\">Nikkei reports<\/a> but then Docomo withdrew that the explanation train delay stopped their network. Then another explanation was made that increase of free-calling apps usage like Skype and Line on smartphone was the reason. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/masujun\/status\/162568136586047488\">NHN Japan Executive Tweets that LINE&#8217;s Traffic was not increasing when Docomo network down<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese.engadget.com\/2012\/01\/25\/lego-cuusoo-minecraft\/\">User Voting Lego Produce Site Cuusoo To Make Minecraft Lego<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/Hamachiya2\/20120126\/audio\">Let iPhone Safari Scream Even In Silent Mode<\/a> &#8211; related news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/13\/nyregion\/ringing-finally-stopped-but-concertgoers-alarm-persists.html\">Ringing Finally Ended, but There\u2019s No Button to Stop Shame<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com\/\">Anime Blogger Arrested By Making Computer Virus, First Time In Japan<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/mocchibc\/archives\/1589043.html\">By the virus, he let a reader automatically post death-threat on comments, then reported it to police.<\/a> &#8211; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/news\/html\/20120126\/k10015554911000.html\">NHK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>AKB48<\/h3>\n<p>Many news around the popular girls group AKB48.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113474433041552257864\/posts\/NogA8S7D6yD\">AKB48 Producer Yasushi Akimoto Gets Up AKB-sister-groups Managers For Censoring Girls&#8217; Messages On Google+<\/a> &#8211; his staff seemed to let girls use Google+ in conservative way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/life\/news\/120123\/trd12012316340010-n1.htm\">This Year&#8217;s Government Anti-Suicide Campaign Named GKB47<\/a> &#8211; obviously after AKB48. Some people expressed unpleasant feeling to the parodied name for the serious anti-suicide campaign in this country having high suicide-rate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1201\/27\/news087.html\">Google+ Lowering Age Limit To 13yo Realizes More AKB48 members<\/a> &#8211; now 109 of members are on Google+. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-cast.com\/2012\/01\/28120359.html\">2 AKB48 Member Forced To Drop Out By Private Photo Leaked From Twitter<\/a> &#8211; photos showing evidences that they had a boyfriend, which is prohibited in AKB48<\/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>This week&#8217;s Japanese Web\/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Navit Allegedly Manipulates Reviews On @Cosme By Using Trial Samples And Reward &#8211; Navit counter-release said that it is not manipulation but request. KDDI au Offers Opt-Out From Targeted Ads, But&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/japans-web-news-week-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Web News Week 4<\/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-16674","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\/16674","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=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}