{"id":7950,"date":"2010-04-20T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2010-04-20T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:57:08","slug":"april-2010-japan-it-links-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/april-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First half of April news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/071\/index.html\">Sekaimon Global Beta Expands To Sell European Items To Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Convenience Chainstore Lawson Starts Twitter (via @AMN)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news4vip.livedoor.biz\/archives\/51511282.html\">2-channel Made Tokyo Metro Map In Ascii Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nicovideo.jp\/niconews\/2010\/04\/007053.html\">Nico Nico Douga&#8217;s April Fool Was &#8220;Became Black Inc&#8221;<\/a> parent company Dwango&#8217;s stock surged probably by this<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashura360.jp\/\">Kofukuji Ashura Buddhism Statue iPhone app and case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/insidears\/archives\/52277055.html\">Messe Sanoh&#8217;s (Adult) Game Buyers List Leaked From Insecure Backend System Via Google Cache, Over 1,000 Hentai Game Lovers Humiliated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese.cri.cn\/881\/2010\/04\/04\/145s156724.htm\">China&#8217;s first cloud service was launched<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.livedoor.com\/article\/detail\/4699905\/\">Beat Communication Localizes Enterprise Social Networking System In English For Multi National Japanese Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/galge.com\/info\/notice\/\">Hentai Game Review Site Galge.com To Terminate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodoku.jp\/\">Actor Takao Ohsawa&#8217;s Voice Composition For Your Text<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/net\/news\/20100406-OYT8T00400.htm\">Softbank To Buy Victor Entertainment From JVC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/av.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100407_359676.html\">Radiko.jp Blocks Access From Third Party Clients Which Enable Listening From Oustide Of Service Area<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobe-np.co.jp\/news\/shakai\/0002847674.shtml\">Wolrd First Cosplay Vocational School Will Open In Kobe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/game.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100329_357772.html\">Andou Kensaku &#8211; Google Search Keyword Game On Wii<\/a>. Mashable <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/04\/07\/nintendo-google-wii-game\/\">took this.<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windmillnetworking.com\/2010\/04\/07\/twitter-in-japan-update-2010-statistics-video-and-duck-mouth\/\">Twitter phenomenon in Japan in English<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.net\/event_lawson.php\">Pixiv-Lawson Illustration Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mmd.up-date.ne.jp\/news\/detail.php?news_id=470\">MMD Research &#8211; 70% of Japanese Are Not Interested In Smartphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/news\/headline\/article\/g=96958A9C93819695E2EBE2E39B8DE3E2E2E6E0E2E3E2E2E2E2E2E2E2\">Tokyo Metropolitan Police Agency set up a special team to investigate underground criminal websites.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/mobile\/story\/0,3800078151,20411886,00.htm\">QR Code Inventor Company Denso Wave Releases iPhone QR Code Reader App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1004\/12\/news068.html\">Livedoor&#8217;s Online Self-Publishing Manga Site DLsite.com Separately Sold To Geo<\/a>. NHN Japan president told that they see no benefit to have DLsite.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20412010,00.htm\">Illustration Social Networking Pixiv Introduces Its Own URL Shortener p.tl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macotakara.jp\/blog\/index.php?ID=7397\">Apple Products Dissapearing From Major Online Shopping Sites<\/a>. Out of order at Yamada Denki\/K&#8217;s Denki\/eBEST. need to take out at Bic Camera\/Sofmap<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/newspapers\/av_actress_entices_chinese_net.php\">Pornstar Sora Aoi&#8217;s Twitter Gets Attentions From (Twitter-Banned) China.<\/a> [En] <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Aoi_Sola\">@Aoi_Sora<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1004\/14\/news036.html\">Facebook- and Twitter-enabled Walkman cellphone to be introduced from Sony Ericsson.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitroll.com\/\">(Japanese Characters Compliant) Twitter Slideshow Service Twitroll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookscan.co.jp\/\">Bookscan &#8211; Another Book Digitizer Service For Individual<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/tech\/story\/0,2000056025,20412175,00.htm\">Yamada Denki Supports iPhone For Their Shopping Points. First iPhone support among competitor chainstores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/blog\/it_bigbang\/2010\/04\/15\/entry_27039116\/\">Using Imported iPad In Japan Is Illegal.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First half of April news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Sekaimon Global Beta Expands To Sell European Items To Japanese Convenience Chainstore Lawson Starts Twitter (via @AMN) 2-channel Made Tokyo Metro Map In Ascii Art Nico Nico Douga&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/april-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 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":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}