{"id":18971,"date":"2022-02-15T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T07:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18971"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T07:06:27","slug":"techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beboundless.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boundless<\/a>, a Japanese arm of Apollo\/Yahoo US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beboundless.jp\/press\/corporate-announcement-02-15-2022\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced today<\/a> that they would shut down two American-originated tech blogs&#8217; Japanese version, <a href=\"https:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch Japan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/japanese.engadget.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget Japanese version<\/a> on May 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, huge number of past articles will become inaccessible. Both sites will be redirected to the US version sites. Some of the articles are translations from the US versions, but many are original Japan articles. It is likely that historical materials about the Japanese tech scene will be lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top-600x395.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top-600x395.png 600w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top-400x263.png 400w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-top.png 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top-600x434.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top-600x434.png 600w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top-400x290.png 400w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/engadget-japanese-top.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Softbank bought <a href=\"https:\/\/about.yahoo.co.jp\/en\/pr\/release\/2021\/07\/05g\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! brand&#8217;s license in Japan last year perpetually<\/a> for Yahoo! Japan, the Japanese largest web service. Then Verison Media now Apollo is not using &#8220;Yahoo&#8221; brand domestically in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boundless, a Japanese arm of Apollo\/Yahoo US, announced today that they would shut down two American-originated tech blogs&#8217; Japanese version, TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japanese version on May 1, 2022. According to the release, huge number of past articles will become inaccessible. Both sites will be redirected to the US version sites. Some of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives<\/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":[17],"tags":[4279,4280,4275,1791,2255,4276,4277,4278],"class_list":["post-18971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-apollo","tag-boundless","tag-close","tag-japan","tag-media","tag-tech-blog","tag-tech-media","tag-yahoo-us","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971","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=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18974,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}