{"id":2840,"date":"2009-04-02T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2009-04-02T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:57:07","slug":"april-fools-day-jokes-on-japanese-websphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/april-fools-day-jokes-on-japanese-websphere\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the day when all we are permitted to wag the dog, many companies devoted themselves to create attractive pranks on their websites.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wrapped up what had happened on Japanese web scene.
\nFor pursuing the journalist’s perspective to be honest on the facts, we Asiajin report no prank nor joke, but do the fact covering what people have made.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We appreciate your understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company \/ Website<\/th>\nMain Business<\/th>\nPranks & Jokes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\"Tsuburaya's
\nTsuburaya Production<\/a><\/th>\n		A well-known movie production for its special effects, and the father of Ultra-Man<\/a><\/td>\nKanegon<\/em><\/a> or coin monster, which is appeared in Tsuburaya’s TV serials, restarted blogging.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"ImpressWatch's
\nImpress Watch<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s oldest e-mail newsletter covering IT business matters<\/td>\nThe company started publishing a daily newsletter called “Cat Watch” that day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"DPZ's
\nDaily Portal Z<\/a><\/th>\n		The editorial team introduces useful tips for our daily life on the country’s popular portal site every day.<\/td>\nThe editorial team investigated the following supervisions.- A mermaid can be seen when you have the eyes opened in bath water.- In order to receive the appropriate signal from the radio station far from you, and to listen to your favourite program more clearly, how do you assume a pose to use your body as an antenna?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Irem's
\nIrem Software Engineering<\/a><\/th>\n		A famous pachinko game developer<\/td>\nThe secret society called “Black Irem” jacked the company’s website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Google's
\nGoogle<\/a><\/th>\n		Unnecessary to explain<\/td>\nA senryu<\/em> or a humorous Japanese poem may be inserted to some search results.\u00a0 The popular children’s TV program characters, Gachapin<\/em><\/a> and Mukku<\/em> were invited to GoogleMap advisory board[J]<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"SixApart's
\nSix Apart<\/a><\/th>\n		The world’s famous blog platform developer<\/td>\nIt showed an interview with Yaruo<\/em>, the ASCII art character born on the “2ch” BBS, and asked him the reason why he had upgraded his blog platform to Movable Type<\/a> 4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MagMag's
\nMag Mag<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s largest e-mail newsletter distribution platform provider<\/td>\nThe website’s top page turned to be a Google-like.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"YouTube's
\nYouTube<\/a><\/th>\n		Unnecessary to explain<\/td>\nSome videos are seen upside down.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"NicoNicoDouga's
\nNico Nico Douga<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s popular video sharing site<\/td>\nSubtitles overwrapped on the video run through much faster than usual.\u00a0 President Obama will join the program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"KokubanIn's
\nKokuban.in<\/a>
\n(blackboard in)<\/a><\/th>\n		Draw a picture on the virtual blackboard with your mouse, and share it with the other users on the illustration SNS<\/td>\nThe title has been changed to Sukebu.in, meaning “sketchbook in”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Pixiv's
\nPixiv<\/a><\/th>\n		An online illustration community for artists<\/td>\nThe company’s office is registered in Tokyo, but their data center facility is reportedly located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which causes reponse delay for browsing the website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Yahoo
\nYahoo! JAPAN<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s most famous search engine and directory service<\/td>\nPlanning on-the-spot filming of Evangelion drama movie, which is originally known as an animation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Hatena's
\nHatena<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s most popular social bookmark site<\/td>\nHatena has the service allowing its users to give rewards to interesting blog post, which is called “star”. Inspired by the supplementary income payments that Japanese government distributes to the national, the company also distribute “star” to all the Hatena users as to give it to their favorites.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Kayac's
\nKayac<\/a><\/th>\n		Developing a number of entertaining and weird websites and projects<\/td>\nAs the substitute to the supplementary income payments, Japanese government will distribute Kayac’s product encouraging your fidgeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Interlink's
\nInterlink<\/a><\/th>\n		ISP, web hosting provider and domain registrar<\/td>\nPresident Obama applied for “.obama (dot obama)” domain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Himote
\nHimote SNS<\/a><\/th>\n		An internet forum for unpopular people, in response to the torment caused by St. Valentine’s Day<\/td>\nThe forum founder Ega-chan got his girlfriend finally, and he shut the website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Vector's
\nVector<\/a><\/th>\n		Japan’s largest library having shareware and freeware applications<\/td>\nMore than 100,000 software titles are available for free of charge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Eiga.com's
\neiga.com<\/a><\/th>\n		The portal site introducing new movie lineups<\/td>\nThe top page shows you no listing of movie titles, but a bunch of stupid news.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Paper
\nLolipop<\/a><\/th>\n		A famous website hosting provider<\/td>\nTheir business has been changed to an Indian curry restaurant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"WebKare's
\nWeb-kare<\/a><\/th>\n		A role playing game on the website, for having dates with your virtual boyfriend<\/td>\nWeb-kare (web boyfriend) has been changed to the e-commerce shop selling curry (web curry).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\"GoogleSmileCompany's
\nGood Smile Company<\/a><\/th>\n		The company making and selling a number of cartoon character clay works.<\/td>\nIt shows you the preview of a movie titled Nendoroid Deka, a story about the detective girl with a clay doll.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MyNet
\nMyNet Japan<\/a><\/th>\n		Running a “Digg”-like social news site and mobile site integration.<\/td>\nTheir power source turned to naturally generated type, and the employees need pedaling bikes to keep their servers running.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Web-kare sold a fake product of “web curry” retort pouch on the website.\"Web-kare's
\nGood Smile Company made a fake announcement that they intend to release a movie of the detective girl with a clay doll.
\n\"Nentroid
\nMyNet Japan CEO & employees couldn’t stop pedaling bikes for generating power to feed their mission-critical servers.\"MyNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the day when all we are permitted to wag the dog, many companies devoted themselves to create attractive pranks on their websites.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I wrapped up what had happened on Japanese web scene. For pursuing the journalist’s perspective to be honest on the facts, we Asiajin report no prank nor joke, but do the fact… Continue reading April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[5,11,17,19,24],"tags":[282,840,1044,1400,1401,1504,1540,1659,1704,1747,1937,2005,2147,2174,2491,2588,2889,3360,3816,3947,4055,4161,4221],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-event-report","category-japan","category-joke","category-news","tag-april-fool","tag-daily-portal-z","tag-eigacom","tag-good-smile-company","tag-google","tag-hatena","tag-himote-sns","tag-impress","tag-interlink","tag-irem","tag-kayac","tag-kokubanin","tag-lolipop","tag-mag-mag","tag-mynet-japan","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-pixiv","tag-six-apart","tag-tsuburaya","tag-vector","tag-web-kare","tag-yahoo-japan","tag-youtube","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}