{"id":7404,"date":"2010-01-29T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2010-01-29T02:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:26:34","slug":"january-2010-japan-it-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/january-2010-japan-it-links\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asiajin\">@asiajin<\/a> also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much.<br \/>\nHere is the first half of January Japanese IT\/Web interesting news links we did not take as a dedicated article. (<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/january-2010-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">part 2 is here<\/a>)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/marketing\/story\/0,3800080523,20406018,00.htm\">Cellphone Shipments In Japan Drops The Lowest Level In 5 Years &#8211; 2009 3Q<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldplab.jp\/station\/\">Liberal Democratic Party launches Internet video channel, J-Channel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/news\/20091228\/64722.html\">Bijin Tokei 2D (2-dimensional, Anime) version collaborated with Pixiv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/0912\/28\/news043.html\">Bijin Tokei goes on TV in Kansai, 5 minutes program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/ryo640\/entry-10442179053.html\">Bijin Tokei Voice Actress Version released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/namings.jp\/\">New Service Namings Name What You Often Experience But Does Not Have Name<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntv.co.jp\/sekaju\/\">Nippon TV (channel 4 in Tokyo) had Twitter teaching program on new years holiday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/getnews.jp\/archives\/42755\">Tweeting National Diet Member (and ex-fashion model) Renho asked how to use Nintendo DS illegal dongle for her son<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jin115.com\/archives\/51614262.html\">Love Plus AR cards were sold by 100,000 yen on Yahoo! Auction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zapanet.info\/blog\/item\/1861\">Ameba Celebrities&#8217; password were posted in Excel on their blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/pdf\/2010\/0101.pdf\">CyberAgent release on their Ameba password leak incident<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iza.ne.jp\/news\/newsarticle\/world\/china\/342012\/\">A maid hair salon was opened in Taipei (Not Tokyo)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/animeanime.jp\/news\/archives\/2010\/01\/twitter.html\">Anime &#8220;Eden of the East&#8221; AR events are held in Tokyo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/natalie.mu\/owarai\/news\/show\/id\/25992\">Nippon TV will broadcast a new entertainment program interacts with Twitter users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2010\/0106\/2458\">Mixi Introduced MySpace-like Personal Page Decoration Feature For PC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paco.ameba.jp\/\">CyberAgent starts illustration mashup community AmebaPACO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.jp.msn.com\/digital\/article.aspx?articleid=204556\">MSN Sankei News starts enabling users to reproduce the news footage pictures on their blogs without permission.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/biz\/story\/0,2000056020,20406364,00.htm\">Rakuten, Yahoo Japan, Mixi and more teamed up for promoting e-commerce industry.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1001\/08\/news087.html\">Motion Portrait introduces HourFace, the iPhone app allows you to see how you will look like when you get older.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvd.nicovideo.jp\/\">Niconico DVD &#8211; NicoNico comments overlay on Your Watching DVD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/news\/20100108\/64830.html\">A Japan&#8217;s real estate portal releases a GPS-enabled iPhone app showing the average price of apartment rent cost classfied by town.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/news\/20100108\/64835.html\">NTT Docomo started mobile cartoon service for India&#8217;s Tata DoCoMo cellphone subscribers.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.jp\/security\/article.pl?sid=10\/01\/12\/0114247\">Yahoo! Japan phishing suspects arrested.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/biz\/story\/0,2000056020,20406430,00.htm\">NTT Communications invests in Swiss online language learning site.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hash-c.co.jp\/info\/20091124.html\">Latest i-mode browsers are reported to cause security leak with old-style mobile site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20406520,00.htm\">CyberAgent released the iPhone app allowing you to browse Ameba blog posts.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/netafull.net\/internet\/033205.html\">Bikini Liquor Shop.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bba.or.jp\/ogc\/2010\/\">OGC2010 Web\/Game Conference Feb 17th<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1001\/14\/news091.html\">Mr. &#038; Mrs. Ukigawa, who are well-known for having invented a Japanese front-end processor(FEP), quit the company they&#8217;ve founded and launch a new company to develop user-friendly application platforms.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techwave.jp\/\">Livedoor launched TechWave, an IT-oriented blog moderated by former Jiji Press tech correspondent Tsuruaki Yukawa, and Market Hack, an alternative investment-oriented blog by financial expert Takao Hirose.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=10000000000000136182\">Naver&#8217;s Storage Service N Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/YTVawardsJP2009\">YouTube announces the grand prix winner of YouTube Video Awards Japan 2009.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.kenko.com\/shop\/en-us\/contents\/top\/\">Kenko.com launched an English-language version.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flight.co.jp\/pdf\/100119-news.pdf\">Contactless smardcard &#8220;FeliCa&#8221; for the iPhone to be introduced in Japan.  Flight System Consulting, Focal Computer and Morphie are jointly developing it.<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/tweetme\/id348598813?mt=8\">Flight System Consulting just released the iPhone app enabling your tweet by speech.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/pcuser\/articles\/1001\/19\/news054.html\">Programmers&#8217; friend Potechi-no-te &#8211; magic hands for potato tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aahosyu.com\/\">Ascii-Art assist service for Twitter AA Hoshu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/news_release\/page\/100121_00.html\">NTT Docomo announces its own Android App Market for the coming new Sony Ericsson device<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20407062,00.htm\">GMO Payment Gateway to start Payment Service for Social Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=10000000000000136189\">Navar Japan N Drive adds iPhone and Mac support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/about\/intl\/jp\/\">Evernote opens Japanese site and declares Japanese localization is under way<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/mobile\/story\/0,3800078151,20407130,00.htm\">CoroPura Starts Another Location Based Social Game on Mobage Town<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/k_tai\/news\/1231213_1350.html\">Taiko no Tatsujin Goes On iPhone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webinknow.com\/2010\/01\/interview-with-masakiishitani-author-of-japans-most-popular-book-about-twitter.html\">David Meerman Scott interviews @masakiishitani about Japanese Twitter scene<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/0904\/17\/news011.html\">Web game company AQInteractive aquires LinkThink(WebKare)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.child-safenet.jp\/\">Yahoo! Japan and others&#8217; guide for children internet usage recommend parents to allow PC first<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/jp\/ipad\/\">iPad page on Apple Japan does not have iBooks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<br \/>\nAs you see, we know a lot things to write but contributors time are limited. So we are looking for authors. We will help Japanese research\/reading part so do not worry if your Japanese is not perfect.<br \/>\nWe also want sponsorship to keep this group blog. Ideal if from Japanese companies because our initial motivation was to introduce them to non-Japanese web. Problem is we only write in English and they do not check English sites \ud83d\ude42 If you know them please suggest us to them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is the first half of January Japanese IT\/Web interesting news links we did not take as a dedicated article. (part 2 is here)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/january-2010-japan-it-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)<\/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":[17,36],"tags":[211,224,285,312,427,595,760,803,861,1039,1104,1167,1210,1217,1385,1607,1728,1732,1791,1894,1957,2062,2099,2101,2113,2155,2342,2444,2464,2537,2569,2595,2618,2623,2662,2664,2695,2939,3047,3211,3590,3638,3827,4055,4154,4161,4221],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-amebapaco","tag-android","tag-aqinteractive","tag-ascii-art","tag-bijin-tokei","tag-cellphone","tag-coropura","tag-cyber-agent","tag-david-meerman-scott","tag-eden-of-the-east","tag-evernote","tag-felica","tag-flight-system-consulting","tag-focal-computer","tag-gmo-payment-gateway","tag-i-mode","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-japan","tag-just-systems","tag-kenkocom","tag-ldp","tag-links","tag-linkthink","tag-livedoor","tag-love-plus","tag-mixi","tag-motion-portrait","tag-msn","tag-naver","tag-news","tag-niconico-dvd","tag-nintendo-ds","tag-nippon-tv","tag-ntt-communications","tag-ntt-docomo","tag-ogc","tag-potechi-no-te","tag-rakuten","tag-sankei-newspaper","tag-taipei","tag-techwave","tag-tsuruaki-yukawa","tag-web-kare","tag-yahoo-auction","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\/7404","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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}