{"id":487,"date":"2008-07-25T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:32:41","slug":"qa-what-is-the-japanese-equivalent-of-western-web-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/qa-what-is-the-japanese-equivalent-of-western-web-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: What is the Japanese equivalent of [Western web service]?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a list of where Japanese users usually go on the web when they want to connect with their friends, buy something or get information. I feature “made-in-Japan” sites and software only (well, almost), knowing that i.e. Google, Amazon and Firefox are highly popular in this country as well.
\nSome of these Japanese sites are also available in English. I linked to the English versions whenever possible and marked them with [ENG].
\nNote: This list is highly subjective<\/em>. If you have other ideas, please let us know in the comment section.<\/p>\n

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

What is the Japanese equivalent of Google?
\nYahoo! Japan<\/a>.
\nWikipedia?
\nWikipedia Japan<\/a>.
\nFacebook?
\nMixi<\/a>.
\nFlickr?
\nYahoo! Japan Photos<\/a>.
\nDigg?
\nMinna no Topics<\/a> (Everyone’s topics).
\nLinkedIn?
\nNo equivalent.
\nTwitter?
\nTwitter Japan<\/a>.
\nYoutube?
\nNico Nico Douga<\/a>.
\nAmazon?
\nRakuten<\/a>.
\ndelicio.us?
\nHatena Bookmark<\/a>. [ENG]
\ndooyoo (price comparison engine)?
\nKakaku.com<\/a>.
\nNetflix?
\nPosren<\/a>.
\nCraigslist?
\nNo equivalent.
\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>.
\n4chan?
\n2 channel<\/a> (the original).
\nlast.fm?
\nMixi Music<\/a> (registration required).
\nTechnorati?
\nKizasi<\/a>.
\nSecond Life?
\nMeet me<\/a>.
\nYahoo! Answers?
\nOshiete!goo<\/a> and Yahoo! Chiebukuro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

II) Blogs<\/h3>\n

What is the Japanese equivalent of Techcrunch?
\nAsiajin<\/a>. [ENG]….Joke, people!
\nthe Huffington Post?
\nNo equivalent.
\ntmz.com?
\nZakzak<\/a>.
\nBoing Boing?
\nZaeega<\/a>.
\n<\/a>
\nGizmodo?
\nGizmodo Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

What is the Japanese equivalent of Gmail?
\nYahoo! Japan Mail<\/a>.
\nBlogger?
\nFC2<\/a>.
\nthe iTunes store?
\niTunes Japan<\/a> (Lismo <\/a>for mobile downloads which accounted for 90% of all music downloads in 2007 in Japan).
\nBitTorrent?
\nWinny<\/a>.
\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]
\nSequoia Capital?
\nNGI Group<\/a>. [ENG]
\nAdmob?
\nCirius<\/a>. [ENG]
\nIn case you want to know more, please add a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a list of where Japanese users usually go on the web when they want to connect with their friends, buy something or get information. I feature “made-in-Japan” sites and software only (well, almost), knowing that i.e. Google, Amazon and Firefox are highly popular in this country as well. Some of these Japanese sites… Continue reading Q&A: What is the Japanese equivalent of [Western web service]?<\/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":[52,146,1504,1906,2107,2163,2342,2577,2588,3047,3373,4101,4161,4236],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-2-channel","tag-agile-media-network","tag-hatena","tag-kakaku","tag-list","tag-lunascape","tag-mixi","tag-ngi","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-rakuten","tag-sleipnir","tag-winny","tag-yahoo-japan","tag-zaeega","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}