{"id":4962,"date":"2009-07-31T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2009-07-31T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:51:34","slug":"kotaku-opens-japanese-version-of-its-game-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/kotaku-opens-japanese-version-of-its-game-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotaku Opens Japanese Version Of Its Game Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotaku-japan-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotaku-japan-logo.png\" alt=\"kotaku-japan-logo\" title=\"kotaku-japan-logo\" width=\"372\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4964\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAmerican Popular Game blog <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/\">Kotaku<\/a> licensed its brand and contents to a Japanese company <a href=\"http:\/\/mediagene.co.jp\/\">Mediagene<\/a>, after <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com.au\/\">their first localized blog in Australia<\/a> to open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.jp\/\">a new blog media<\/a> [J] in, one of the most important countries for game industry and market, Japan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotaku-japan-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kotaku-japan-screenshot-400x299.png\" alt=\"kotaku-japan-screenshot\" title=\"kotaku-japan-screenshot\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4963\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMediagene already has been running two Japanese version of popular English blogs provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/\">Gawker Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/\">Gizmodo Japan<\/a> [J] and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.jp\/\">Lifehacker [Japanese version]<\/a> [J].<br \/>\nKotaku Japan introduces its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.jp\/2009\/07\/kotaku_japan_1.html\">12 staff of editors, translators, column writers, manga drawer, etc<\/a> [J].<br \/>\nKotaku Japan&#8217;s direct competitor may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/\">4Gamer.net<\/a> [J], which is not blog-originated but a successful online media around game information in Japan. On their media sheet they say 4Gamer.net&#8217;s page views is 40 million per month. The border between blog-based and non-blog-based professional media is not clear now.<br \/>\nhat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/kirik.tea-nifty.com\/diary\/2009\/07\/kotaku-1b66.html\">Kirikomi-Taicho<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Popular Game blog Kotaku licensed its brand and contents to a Japanese company Mediagene, after their first localized blog in Australia to open a new blog media [J] in, one of the most important countries for game industry and market, Japan. Mediagene already has been running two Japanese version of popular English blogs provided&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/kotaku-opens-japanese-version-of-its-game-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kotaku Opens Japanese Version Of Its Game Blog<\/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":[17,24,37],"tags":[74,450,1075,1313,1325,1367,1791,1812,2088,2132],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-usa","tag-4gamernet","tag-blog","tag-english","tag-game","tag-gawker-media","tag-gizmodo","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-lifehacker","tag-localization","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","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=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}