“App Girlfriend” Traning Battle Communication Game Released, Features...
Toy Logic, Inc. [J] has released the iOS version of the smartphone training battle game Appuri Kanojo [J] (App Girlfriend). Download is free. “App Girlfriend” is a training battle communication game...
View ArticleAR App “coloRail” Brings Location Based Gaming To The Sapporo Subway
Kumasan LLC [J] has released the first installment of “coloRail”, a location based game series for iOS where your destination is decided by the roll of the dice; this version features the Sapporo...
View ArticleRanking★TV By GREE Recommends Popular TV Shows
Gree Inc. [J] has released Ranking★TV [J], an application for iOS which recommends popular TV programs before being broadcast, based on a ranking system. It uses Toshiba’s REGZA cloud service...
View ArticleVeoh Likely Aquired By Japanese FC2
First pointed out by someone on Hatena Anonymous Diary, online video service Veoh‘s ownership seems to be handed over to FC2, a huge but scarcely known Japanese everything-portal. FC2 sent a mail to...
View ArticleMixi Renewed iPhone Messaging App With Stamp/Photo
Mixi released an new iPhone app “Mixi Talk”, which enables users to send Mixi message with stamps and photos. mixiトーク-趣味や興味が同じ人と今すぐ話せる-Genre: ソーシャルネットワーキング, エンターテインメントLanguage: English, JapanesePrice:...
View ArticleGree Proposes Voluntary Retirement To 11% Employees
Gree announced today after the Tokyo market close [J] that it starts asking voluntary retirement to 200 workers, which will be 11% of 1,762 employees.
View ArticleTwitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In
Japanese Twittersphere, one of the most active languages on Twitter, was confused by a simple but very effective viral trick since last week. Since October 15, tweets with sensational titles of videos...
View ArticleJapan’s 4th Largest Convenience Chain-store To Use Rakuten Super Points
According to Sankei reported [J], Circle-K-Sunkus, the 4th largest convenience chain-store, announced on November 17th that it would replace its own reward points system with e-commerce giant Rakuten’s...
View ArticleRakuten Purchases The Name Of Miyagi Baseball Stadium For Kobo
NHK reported that Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, who owns a professional baseball team Tohoku Rakuten Goleden Eagles in the top leagues, purchased the naming right of the home stadium in Sendai,...
View ArticleLost articles
By an unfortunate accident, the former Asiajin server crashed and the data lost. More bad thing was that the backup files was cleaned too much recently due to capacity issues on my other server. The...
View ArticleThe Head of Japan’s 4th Largest Web Company Arrested By Hosting Porn
Jiji just reported[J] that the Kyoto and other police arrested the president of Osaka-based Home Page System by allowing FC2 users upload obscene videos. Ex-president and a brother of the FC2 founder...
View ArticleMicrosoft Japan Finally Upgrades Staffs’ 4 Years-old Windows Phone
Microsoft Japan announced today that its employees are to get Lumia 830 instead of their current Windows Phone IS12T, Windows Phone device which are not sold in Japan. The announcement also notes that...
View ArticleDocomo To End BlackBerry Service By 2017
According to ITmedia Mobile, NTT Docomo announced the termination of BlackBerry network service by March 31 2017. New application will be stopped at November 30th this year.
View ArticleCardboard Theater Meme – Good for Japanese Small House
Budget immersive movie experience has been around Japanese Twitter. coined term ダンボール映画館(cardboard theater) うし!!映画だwwww pic.twitter.com/xSRT3P7LTF — ちーず (@hrhr_mumu) December 27, 2013...
View ArticleAll Japanese Stocks Jump Up 10000% on Google Search
[Update] It seems fixed now (21:40 31th) Google’s instant stock search feature, one of the quick search results shown at the top of search results page, has been showing ten-thousandfold high price for...
View ArticleVending Machine Talks to Employees in President’s Voice
Japanese beverage distributor Dydo Drinco (TSE: 2590) jointly invented president-message speaking vending machine with Kyoto-based Taxi company MK Co.. translation by Asiajin The release shows some...
View ArticleTwitter Japan Begins Adboard in Central Tokyo
Twitter Japan(@TwitterJP) announced that it started signboard ads for passengers using Shimbashi station for one months....
View ArticleAllAbout Launches Non-Japanese AllAbout Japan for Foreign Visitors
AllAbout Inc., AllAbout Inc., a Japanese company which originally started as a joint-venture between Recruit and US About.com, running All About in Japanese, announced today [J] September 29th that...
View ArticleLost articles are back
We had lost recent articles, but luckily could salvage most of the once-lost-ones from an RSS reader service. There could be some glitches on the posts from January 2014 to September 2015. Your...
View ArticleHow to recover WordPress posts from NewsBlur
This post is not related with Asia/Japan IT news. When I noticed that there were no latest backups kept on any cloud services by combined mistakes, Asiajin’s past articles since January 2014 seemed to...
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