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Sayonara, Japan's Cryptocurrency Market

Binance A number of negative incidents have occurred in succession within the cryptocurrency market of Japan. The first is that the cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ceased its developments in Japan. They withdrew from the Japanese market after a warning from the Financial Services Agency that made it sound like they were committing a crime. They […]

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GMO Explained Their Bitcoin Mining Business Plan at a Press Conference

GMO Internet, Inc. has hosted briefing session regarding mining of virtual currency (Bitcoin mining) on September 13. This market entry move has already been announced on 7th, and this press conference by Kumagai Masatoshi, CEO and President of GMO Internet, Inc. has been the center of wide attention recently.Kumagai has written in his blog on […]

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What is the biggest website in Japan?

This interactive map can show us how famous sites are big. And you can compare sites. The Internet map If you look for .jp sites and zoom it up, you can see Japan version of the map. Here is the biggest one.

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How NFC devices change ads around us?

Here is an obvious thing. Foursquare and its clones including Japan made clones have to be happy with the Facebook’s decision about their location service. Sole Aim Is Strong | iAm Hiro SHINOHARA Anyway, they must have ideal strategies to beat their enemies. There’re a lot of clones here in Japan now. A big difference […]

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What Should Poken Change For Japanese Market

Poken is not so pupuler here in Japan but we can buy it at some shops or tech events. I got it almost 1 yeaer ago but haven’t touched before I joined WordCamp Kyoto in Oct 2009. I love the concept of poken but it still not be success in Japan. OK, let me suggest […]

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Japanese Government Made An Anime For Adults

All of local cities take place coming of age ceremonies every year for 20 years old people in Japan. And at the last one, Japanese government distributed an anime named “Go! Go! Election”. It means 20 years old people got this anime. You can see what’s going on Japanese education system. From NicoVideo. 【ニコニコ動画】成人式で配られたDVDがひどい件 From […]

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iPhone released in Japan

Finally, iPhone released here in Japan. However I can’t buy it today, I’m in Yodobashi Camera Umeda now 😛 Just came here to see the release event of the iPhone. Here is a video of the historical countdown with Dante Carver well known as "Yosou GUY" on TV commercials of SoftBank and a VP guy. […]

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Made in Japan

My friend Kevin in Singapore said like this when we were chatting. at first, I thought Zelda is made in USA I was thinking how come Zelda is so fun to play impossible from US so I check on net, so Zelda is from Japan lol. No no, don’t forget Cheetah Man from US. He […]

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Fireworks show at Osaka

Last week I went to see the “Yodogawa Hanabi-Taikai” one of the famous fireworks show here in Osaka Jpanan. In the day, fuge amount of people gatherd to the same area between buildings from anywhere around Osaka. It’s just like entire Japanese in one place and all of them are crammed in like sardines. You […]