{"id":17905,"date":"2012-08-20T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:00:03","slug":"worst-busters-project-to-reform-the-worst-of-japan-with-smartphone-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/worst-busters-project-to-reform-the-worst-of-japan-with-smartphone-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"“Worst Busters” Project To Reform The Worst Of Japan With Smartphone Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Omoshiro Houjin Kayac Inc.<\/a> [J] has announced that they will begin Worst Busters<\/a>, [J] a project that will, using an application, reform the worst areas in the 47 prefectures of Japan, by their collaboration with 1192 Inc.<\/a> [J].<\/p>\n

\u201cWorst Busters\u201d is a project to take on what 1992 has deemed the \u201cworst\u201d of society as a challenge of communication, and to tailor policies and ideas and offer suggestions for ways to solve the problems of society. \u00a0This time with the collaboration between 1992 and Kayac, they are directing their focus on the prefectures of Japan and will make suggestions of various policies and ideas using smartphones for resolution techniques. \u00a0Also, they are announcing one part of their ideas on their accompanying site to kick off the project. \u00a0The currently announced Worst Busters ideas are as follows.<\/p>\n

\uff65 Social buried treasure map<\/p>\n

Osaka is the worst in terms of spending money! (source: household finances survey yearly report H15) \u00a0The expression means it would be good to search for buried treasure by yourself.<\/p>\n

\uff65Self-development promotion app<\/p>\n

Ibaragi\u2019s worst point is \u201cPrefecture with no charm\u201d! \u00a0(source: \u201cregion brand 2009\u201d survey result) \u00a0This expression means that if you have self-confidence you will appear more charming to others.<\/p>\n

\uff65Photo posting app<\/p>\n

Shimane\u2019s worst is \u201cI have no idea where I am!\u201d (source: goo ranking). \u00a0The expression means let\u2019s upload lots of pictures of good places in Shimane.<\/p>\n

There are various worsts for other prefectures too, and Kayac and 1992 aim to reform the world with apps and continue putting out many more ideas from here on. \u00a0Furthermore they are recruiting individuals and corporations who sympathize with the ideas of this app and are helping to reform the world together.<\/p>\n

Translation authorized by VSMedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Omoshiro Houjin Kayac Inc. [J] has announced that they will begin Worst Busters, [J] a project that will, using an application, reform the worst areas in the 47 prefectures of Japan, by their collaboration with 1192 Inc. [J]. \u201cWorst Busters\u201d is a project to take on what 1992 has deemed the \u201cworst\u201d of society as… Continue reading “Worst Busters” Project To Reform The Worst Of Japan With Smartphone Apps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[32,40],"tags":[50,1937,4131],"class_list":["post-17905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-vsmedia","tag-50","tag-kayac","tag-worst-busters","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}