Asiajin https://asiajin.com/blog Japan IT News by Japan local authors Tue, 15 Feb 2022 07:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 40054645 TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives https://asiajin.com/blog/2022/02/techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2022/02/techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives/#respond Tue, 15 Feb 2022 07:06:27 +0000 https://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18971 Continue reading TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japan to be Shut Down, No Archives]]> Boundless, a Japanese arm of Apollo/Yahoo US, announced today that they would shut down two American-originated tech blogs’ Japanese version, TechCrunch Japan and Engadget Japanese version on May 1, 2022.

According to the release, huge number of past articles will become inaccessible. Both sites will be redirected to the US version sites. Some of the articles are translations from the US versions, but many are original Japan articles. It is likely that historical materials about the Japanese tech scene will be lost.

Softbank bought Yahoo! brand’s license in Japan last year perpetually for Yahoo! Japan, the Japanese largest web service. Then Verison Media now Apollo is not using “Yahoo” brand domestically in Japan.

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2022/02/techcrunch-japan-and-engadget-japan-to-be-shut-down-no-archives/feed/ 0 18971 Tokyo Olympic Committee is Hiring New Engineers for A New COVID-19 Service https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/05/tokyo-olympic-committee-is-hiring-new-engineers-for-a-new-covid-19-service/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/05/tokyo-olympic-committee-is-hiring-new-engineers-for-a-new-covid-19-service/#respond Sat, 01 May 2021 03:43:28 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18952 Continue reading Tokyo Olympic Committee is Hiring New Engineers for A New COVID-19 Service]]> twitter user @mahoco found an interesting job listing by Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee.
The post valid from April 18th tells that Tokyo Olympic is seeking engineers who are in charge of planning, designing and deployment of a new massive anti-COVID-19 system for the coming Tokyo Olympic Games.

Monthly salary is expected about 350,000 yen, which is less than 40K USD if one year. Night shift might be required from July.
Trial employment period is three months, whilst the opening of the Olympic Games comes under three months.

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/05/tokyo-olympic-committee-is-hiring-new-engineers-for-a-new-covid-19-service/feed/ 0 18952 A wake-up service charges you when you fail to leave your home by time https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/04/a-wake-up-service-charges-you-when-you-fail-to-leave-your-home-by-time/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/04/a-wake-up-service-charges-you-when-you-fail-to-leave-your-home-by-time/#respond Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:24:29 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18946 Continue reading A wake-up service charges you when you fail to leave your home by time]]> A new smartphone wake-up assistance service Mezamee charges fee every morning ONLY WHEN you failed to wake up.
The application is “totally free” as far as you wake up and leave your home over 100 meters before the time you set. Higher fee you set at the previous night, more serious you would depart your home.

The service itself does NOT have any alarm functionalities.
The president of the same name company Mezamee is who created a service resign job on behalf of employee.
via Twitter

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2021/04/a-wake-up-service-charges-you-when-you-fail-to-leave-your-home-by-time/feed/ 0 18946 NEC Releases AI Chooses The Best Taste of 2-channelers Soul Snack Umaibou https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/nec-releases-ai-chooses-the-best-taste-of-2-channelers-soul-snack-umaibou/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/nec-releases-ai-chooses-the-best-taste-of-2-channelers-soul-snack-umaibou/#respond Thu, 03 Nov 2016 01:14:35 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18905 Umaibou is a Japanese snack which is now widely known as a symbolic favourite snack of the Japan’s largest anonymous bulletin boards 2-channel.
The service which NEC launched to boast its AI technology is a automatic profiler tool to select the best fit Umaibou flavour for you.
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]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/nec-releases-ai-chooses-the-best-taste-of-2-channelers-soul-snack-umaibou/feed/ 0 18905 i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year/#respond Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:49:38 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18902 Continue reading i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year]]> NTT Docomo announced today November 2, 2016 that they will end the sales of i-mode cellphones between this month November and December.
No new i-mode supported featurephone is announced so that P-01H, which was released November in 2015, would be the last i-mode cellphone for regular users.
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The announcement tells that their i-mode capable Rakuraku-phone(easy phone) for elders, will continue to be sold.
i-mode Internet service began in 1999. After massive domestic success and failure of export, iPhone and Android smartphones and their app store overwrote the Docomo’s local success. Docomo says that the i-mode service itself continues. There are still a lot of i-mode cellphone users in Japan, and those fans now need to worry their cellphones becomes old and broken.

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/11/i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year/feed/ 0 18902 Smartphone Fasting Camp to be Held This Summer in Japan https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/05/smartphone-fasting-camp-to-be-held-this-summer-in-japan/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/05/smartphone-fasting-camp-to-be-held-this-summer-in-japan/#respond Wed, 25 May 2016 04:10:18 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18897 smartphone_gorogoro
Mainichi reports that Hyogo prefecture is to run a 5 days boot camp for smartphone addicted children in August.
Kids are still allowed to bring their smartphone, but they are kept in one place, and only be usable between 30 to 60 minutes at night when kids can not stand.

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Playing on the tag challenge is one of the Japanese Twitter users’ favorites, besides super simultaneous tweets by TV watchers.
There is a series of challenges that #”Send A picture, and B will be given to you”(#Aの画像を送るとそれに近いBの画像が送られてくる). As a challenge, cats, yuru-chara characters and anime idols from Idol M@aster console/social game are used well.
For example, “Send Idol M@aster idol, and the Magic the Gathering card will be given to you.” was a huge hit.


The latest popular one happening around March 2 is an challenge tag #”Send Deremasu picture, and Hilary Clinton will be given to you.” “Deremasu” is a nickname of a social game in the Idol M@aster world.


https://twitter.com/ebikyari/status/706322672314003456


https://twitter.com/tenpura0321/status/705011734071758848
US Presidential nomination is not a small news in its allied Japan. More people are seeing candidates photos on news media and that must affect these Japanese Twitter users to play on what.
You may explorer more and more Hilary’s photos matched with an Idol M@aster photo on Twitter search

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/03/japanese-web-find-hilary-clintons-photo-similar-to-social-game-idols/feed/ 0 18885 Yahoo! Japan to Open Silicon Valley Branch https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/03/yahoo-japan-to-open-silicon-valley-branch/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/03/yahoo-japan-to-open-silicon-valley-branch/#respond Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:00:37 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18883 The Jpaan’s largest web company Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that it is to have a new oversea branch in Silicon Valley “to research the cutting edge technologies”.
The release does not tell much details, except that it will send three staffs from its Data & Science solution department.

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/03/yahoo-japan-to-open-silicon-valley-branch/feed/ 0 18883 Yahoo! Japan and Family-mart Gives 50K Free Coffee For Search https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/02/yahoo-japan-and-family-mart-gives-50k-free-coffee-for-search/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/02/yahoo-japan-and-family-mart-gives-50k-free-coffee-for-search/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:06:07 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18877 Continue reading Yahoo! Japan and Family-mart Gives 50K Free Coffee For Search]]> Japan’s Web Behemoth Yahoo! Japan and one of three major convenience chain-store Family Mart jointly starts free coffee campaign [J] today.
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Anyone searching “Famima Coffee” (Famima is an official abbreviation of Family-mart in Japanese) on Yahoo! Japan’s iOS or Android app would get a free coupon of Family-mart coffee, size S which usually costs 100 yen.
The campaign lasts by March 7th, or the first 500,000 cups. “Famima Donatsu(=donuts)” search also gives you a chance to win free donuts for 5,000 people per day.

]]> https://asiajin.com/blog/2016/02/yahoo-japan-and-family-mart-gives-50k-free-coffee-for-search/feed/ 0 18877 Google Japan’s office in Skyscraper had a Small Fire https://asiajin.com/blog/2015/11/google-japans-office-in-skyscraper-had-a-small-fire/ https://asiajin.com/blog/2015/11/google-japans-office-in-skyscraper-had-a-small-fire/#respond Fri, 27 Nov 2015 04:00:28 +0000 http://asiajin.com/blog/?p=18867 Continue reading Google Japan’s office in Skyscraper had a Small Fire]]> NHK reported [J] that the 30th office in Roppongi Hills’s Mori Tower had a minor fire burnt some carpet and card board boxes before 9 a.m. today November 27th.
Floors between 26th and 30th are used by Google Japan. (office visit report by AKIRA DRIVE)

Roppongi Hills is one of the Japanese IT centers, having Apple Japan, Gree, etc.
[Update] Sankei’s follow-up [J] tells that the cause might be a crystal ball in the Google Japan’s office. Crystal Ball!? Do they need to predict something by crystal reading?
[Update 2] Google Japan PR denied their having crystal ball in their office in reply to Sports Hochi [J]. Hochi says that the crystal ball info was from Azabu police department.

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