{"id":17303,"date":"2012-04-22T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17303"},"modified":"2012-04-22T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:59:01","slug":"japans-web-news-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/japans-web-news-week-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Web News Week 16"},"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:\/\/mytown.asahi.com\/akita\/news.php?k_id=05000001204120005\">Tohoku Websites For Foreign Travellers Are Lots Of Machine-Translated Mistakes<\/a> &#8211; There were no budget for translations so that some company voluntarily worked on it with machine translation without human check.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter&#8217;s #FlywithTwitter <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/service\/35016252\/\">Event Report<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/business\/35016256\/\">Q&#038;A Session With Twitter CEO Dick Costolo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nlab.itmedia.co.jp\/nl\/articles\/1204\/16\/news067.html\">He Mentioned Castle In The Sky Twitter Fever<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/japanrealtime\/2012\/04\/16\/facebooks-instagram-buy-wont-alter-twitter-strategy\/?mod=WSJBlog\">Dick Costolo Tokyo Speech on Japan Times<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.asahi.com\/articles\/NGY201204160035.html\">Tokyo Metro Employee Stalks A Lady Via Pasmo E-Card<\/a>, also uploaded her transfer history on 2-channel. He was fired. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nc20120321aa.html\">Pasmo security trouble I wrote on The Japan Times<\/a>, though this stalker is an employee and employees are still possible to browse anyone&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/smt.blogs.com\/mari_diary\/2012\/04\/zaku-tofu.html\">Zaku Tofu, Tofu Package Themed By Enemy Robots From Popular Animation Gundam<\/a> [En]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zaku-tofu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zaku-tofu.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"zaku-tofu\" width=\"398\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17305\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI saw this tofu sold at a suparmarket in my town.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klab.jp\/press\/2012\/120416b.html\">Social Game Provider Klab Establishes US Branch In San Francisco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/culture\/update\/0417\/TKY201204160677.html\">Asahi Reports Amazon Japan Gets 40 Publishers From Middle-to-Small<\/a>, soon later <a href=\"http:\/\/ebook.itmedia.co.jp\/ebook\/articles\/1204\/17\/news092.html\">2 Of 3 Mid-sized Publishers Scooped By Asahi Denied, The Other Says No Comment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/100-face.com\/iphone.php\">100face &#8211; iPhone App To Change Your Face Photo Into Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/corporate\/news_release\/2012\/0416a\/\">KDDI&#8217;s Concept Smartphone Comes With An Analog Clock<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kddi-smartphone-with-analog-clock.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kddi-smartphone-with-analog-clock.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"kddi-smartphone-with-analog-clock\" width=\"497\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17304\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/about.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=1054\">Naver Japan&#8217;s VoIP App LINE Passes 30 Million Downloads<\/a>, 13 Million in Japan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d2c.co.jp\/news\/2011\/20120322-1318.html\">D2C Mobile Usage Research &#8211; Smartphone User Reaches 1\/4 in Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wktokyo.jp\/blog\/?p=3417\">Nike Free Face Campaign<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/west\/west_affairs\/news\/120420\/waf12042001310003-n1.htm\">A Man Scribbled Porn Site URL Over 500 Public Toilets Arrested<\/a> &#8211; He earned some money from affiliate programs. He was planning to do that at 2,600 WC in 36 prefectures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20120418005957\/en\/Wrapp-Prepares-Introduction-Social-Gifting-Japan\">Swedish Facebook Giftcard Service Wrapp To Start Japanese Localization<\/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>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. Tohoku Websites For Foreign Travellers Are Lots Of Machine-Translated Mistakes &#8211; There were no budget for translations so that some company voluntarily worked on it with machine translation without human check.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/japans-web-news-week-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Web News Week 16<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17304,"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-17303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/17303","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=17303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}