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Asahi Digital published an interview of new Mixi president Yusuke Asakura [J], titled “Mixi expand to free call app business beyond social network” today. Mixi quickly released a short release that it is not a fact [J]. Asahi Reports Mixi To Begin Free Call Service, Mixi Denies

Asahi Reports Mixi To Begin Free Call Service, Mixi Denies

Yahoo! Japan announced on May 17th night [J] that they found that their account management server got raided, a file having 22 million of their user account names left on the server. The announcement said that they can not deny the possibility of the file transferred to outside of the company’s network. However, as the [...]

22 Million Yahoo! Japan ID Could Be Leaked

mixi, Inc. [J] has announced the termination of service for “mixi coworker’s network” and mixi video [J] on the SNS “mixi.” Service for “Mixi coworker’s network” began in June of 2010, and it allows you to find coworkers who register their place of work at the same company as yourself.  Also, “Mixi video” is Mixi’s [...]

Mixi Closes “Mixi Video” And “Mixi Coworker’s Network”

3 days ago we reported that Mixi is to have a young new president. Now Facebook Japan announced that a new president, according to Markezine [J]. Same as Mixi, this is the first time of presidency change. Atsuhi Iwashita, who is going to take the president seat on May 20, have served as CEO for [...]

Facebook Japan Replaces Its Head Following To Mixi

ITMedia reports that the notorious website of Aiseikai Hospital is planned to be closed within 2 months, a son of the hospital head revealed on his Twitter account @miya_blu_swing. The tweet [J] has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. The screenshot above can not show you the vividness of the site. You should check it [...]

Japan’s Most Annoying Website To Be Shut Down Soon

Mixi, a Japanese local social networking service competing against Facebook, announced today [J] that the founder, president and the largest stockholder Kenji Kasahara is to hand over the presidency to Yusuke Asakura. Asakura, born in 1982, 30 years old, who joined Mixi in October 2011 when Mixi purchased his founding company Naked Technology. According to [...]

Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman

Asahi Broadcasting Company [J] and Smikie Inc. [J] have released an iOS game application themed on the popular TV series “Dai Kaizou!! Gekiteki Before After” (Great Remodeling!! Dramatic Before and After).  Download is free. In this construction and management simulation game, the player becomes an artisan builder and craftsman by making home improvements and spicing [...]

“What the … ?” Remodeling TV Show Released As iOS Game App

I’ve read recent article on Wired titled The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our World Forever. To be honest when I’ve checked those phones I felt this article has too narrow view of things. There are many other cellphones contributed to change the world. I picked up 5 Japanse cellphones influenced not only Japanese market but the [...]

The 5 Japanese Cellphones That Changed Mobile World Forever

According to IT Media [J], Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs(ACA, Bunka-chou) reportedly expressed at a symposium that they had given up their original public copyright license CLIP, which they researched from 2007 to 2010, and changed to support existing licenses, especially Creative Commons Licenses(CC). Although that some criticizes ACA spent tax for such a project [...]

Japanese Government Give Up Original Copyright License, To Support Creative Commons

Cookpad Engineers’ Blog announced [J] today that their web-service has migrated to Ruby 2.0.0-p0, the latest version of Ruby. That Japan’s (and probably the world’s) largest recipe web-service is one of the largest Ruby-based consumer web services. There are some incompatibilities from former versions of Ruby and 2.* series. Cookpad Switches To Ruby Version 2.0

Cookpad Switches To Ruby Version 2.0