As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possib

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Tokyo-based online language learning site Smart.fm (operated by Cerego Japan) just released an iPhone app yesterday, which lets you not to miss an opportunity to learn even in desperately crowded commutes every morning. For the serivice’s web edition inte

Accessibility Help Explore the BBC Sir Paul McCartney has been named songwriter of the year at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Awards in London.Coldplay won song of the year for Viva La Vida, while Phil Collins collected

Tokyo-based start-up Anydoor started a translation service using Twitter on Tuesday. It’s named 140 Trans. When you post a tweet having attributes of an original language and a target language of your translation request, the service’s participating trans

Google started campaigning a promotion that encourages corporate users to switch their BI (business intelligence) tool platform to Google Apps, which is called Go Google[J]. Go Google is the worldwide campaign, and the company displays a billboard ad at a

Amazon Japan announced their new premium delivery option “Toujitsu Oisogi Bin”, which is not offered by US Amazon, the same day delivery. Of course, some restrictions are applied. To get the product in the same day, you need to see that the shipment optio

Hatena, known by a million geekiest loyal users and the most popular social bookmarks service in Japanese [J], announced that their joint project with console game giant Nintendo “Flipnote Hatena” launches in North America on 12th, in Europe on 14th Augus

Wayz Japan[J], a Tokyo-based tech start-up company which develops e-publishing platforms, recently released two services that allow old-fashioned publishers to switch themselves into digital as easily as 1-2-3. Last week the company introduced a iPhone/iP

Last week we got a couple of remarkable news about what happened to the industry that usually bring us news stories about the world on the move. The Sankei Shimbun[J], Japan’s 7th largest newspaper in the number of its circulation, set up a new page speci

Game geeks and Internet geeks usually gaze at computer screen without blinking their eyes, that may cause the high number of patients who are suffering from dry eyes. For many of them, eye drops no longer act on that. Fukui-based Masunaga Optical Manufact

Accessibility Help Explore the BBC A national indoor BMX centre could be built alongside the Manchester velodrome, home to Britain's Olympic medal winning cycling team.The ?24m development at Sportcity will include a 2,000 seat arena and offices for the h

Here we have one of the newest colorways of the Nike Dunk Low CL sport in the hot red/volt/metallic platinum edition. These kicks are very vibrant with a hot red smooth and patent leather. Volt accents can be seen in the sole, the laces, and in  the tongu

We had a question this week from Jacek in Poland about how to pronounce airline flights numbers. The flight number is the number that each plane trip is given, and is usually two, three, or four digits (numbers) in the United States. For example, if I fly

Drecom, once was a college-venture star IPO-ed, recently financially helped by Rakuten, announced that they would shut down their job board service “Drecom Job Board” at the end of August, 2009. Job Board services is not greatly doing in Japanese web, as

Fortune reported an interesting survey on iPhone sales in Japan. Mashable, CrunchGear and some other blogs have also reported the news. From Japan, I am trying to provide some more detail for people who want to better understand this news. Yes. The shops

Osaka-based catalog mail order giant Senshukai[J] is going to introduce an iPhone/iPod app allowing you to check up showcases filled with fashionable clothes.   It is now under Apple’s consideration for upcoming release and will be available at AppStore n

-- It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.

For the first case in Japanese newspaper’s history, Asahi Shimbun, one of the country’s nationwide major papers, set up an account for Twitter[J] today, and is running play-by-play tweet about the scene of a preliminary match for this year’s football worl

NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with financial services, the cellphone giant will launch the