{"id":4601,"date":"2009-07-29T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2009-07-29T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:04:13","slug":"qa-whats-the-japanese-equivalent-of-enter-foreign-web-service-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/qa-whats-the-japanese-equivalent-of-enter-foreign-web-service-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: What’s the Japanese equivalent of [enter foreign web service here]?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a reboot of a post<\/a> I wrote back in July last year, listing up the Japanese equivalents of websites that are popular in the US and Europe.
\nFor example, Japanese people don’t know Ebay but auction their stuff off on Yahoo Japan Auctions, get in touch with friends via Mixi instead of Facebook etc. etc.
\nI linked to the English versions whenever possible (see the [ENG] mark).
\nLeave a comment if you want to know more or think one of these attributions is off.<\/p>\n

I) General web services<\/h3>\n

What is the Japanese equivalent of Tripadvisor?
\n4Travel<\/a>.
\nGoogle?
\nYahoo! Japan<\/a>.
\nWikipedia?
\nWikipedia Japan<\/a>.
\nFacebook?
\nMixi<\/a>.
\nFlickr?
\nYahoo! Japan Photos<\/a>.
\nDigg?
\nMinna no Topics<\/a> (Everyone’s topics\/closed).
\nLinkedIn?
\nNo equivalent (many business social networks failed in Japan – look here<\/a> for a list).
\nTwitter?
\nTwitter Japan<\/a>.
\nYoutube?
\nNico Nico Douga<\/a>.
\nAmazon?
\nRakuten<\/a> and Amazon Japan<\/a>
\ndelicio.us?
\nHatena Bookmark<\/a>. [ENG]
\ndooyoo (price comparison engine)?
\nKakaku.com<\/a>.
\nNetflix?
\nPosren<\/a>.
\nCraigslist?
\nNo equivalent (there is no culture for classifieds in Japan, which means an instant success for a “Japanese Craigslist” is next to impossible to achieve).
\nimdb (Internet Movie Database)?
\nNihon Eiga Database<\/a> (Japan Movie Database).
\nWall Street Journal Online?
\nNikkei Online<\/a>. [ENG]
\nmonster.com?
\nRikunavi<\/a>.
\nEbay?
\nYahoo! Japan Auctions<\/a>.
\nAlexa?
\nPathtraq<\/a>.
\nHulu?
\nacTVila<\/a>.
\n4chan?
\nFutaba<\/a> (the original).
\nlast.fm?
\nMixi Music<\/a> (registration required\/will be turned off soon).
\nTechnorati?
\nKizasi<\/a>.
\nYahoo! Answers?
\nOshiete!goo<\/a> and Yahoo! Chiebukuro<\/a>.
\nZynga?
\nHangame Japan<\/a>. GREE<\/a> and Mobage-town<\/a> on cell phones.<\/p>\n

II) Blogs<\/h3>\n

What is the Japanese equivalent of Techcrunch?
\nNo equivalent. TechCrunch Japan<\/a> is beginning to publish original articles<\/a>.
\nthe Huffington Post?
\nAgora<\/a>.
\ntmz.com?
\nZakzak<\/a>.
\nBoing Boing?
\nZaeega<\/a>.
\nGizmodo?
\nGizmodo Japan<\/a>.
\nEngadget?
\nEngadget Japanese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

III) Web tools and software:<\/h3>\n

What is the Japanese equivalent of Gmail?
\nYahoo! Japan Mail<\/a>.
\nBlogger?
\nFC2<\/a>.
\niTunes?
\niTunes Japan<\/a> (Lismo <\/a>for mobile downloads which accounted for 90% of all music downloads in 2007 in Japan).
\nBitTorrent?
\nShare. (see info<\/a> on Asiajin)
\nOpera?
\nSleipnir<\/a> [ENG] and Lunascape<\/a> [ENG].<\/p>\n

IV) Web Companies<\/h3>\n

What is the Japanese equivalent of Federated Media?
\nAgile Media Network<\/a>. [ENG]
\nAdmob?
\nCirius<\/a>. [ENG]
\nIn case you want to know more, please add a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a reboot of a post I wrote back in July last year, listing up the Japanese equivalents of websites that are popular in the US and Europe. For example, Japanese people don’t know Ebay but auction their stuff off on Yahoo Japan Auctions, get in touch with friends via Mixi instead of Facebook… Continue reading Q&A: What’s the Japanese equivalent of [enter foreign web service here]?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}