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Koei Tecmo [J] has made a contract with Taiwan’s Cayenne Entertainment Tchnology and have announced that they will develop their currently offered social game “Nobu-nyaga’s Ambition” for Yahoo! Mobage and Mobage in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Koei Tecmo has also until now been developing joint service under management license contract for “Age of Discovery [...]

Nobu-nyaga’s Ambition Steps Into Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau

2012 version of annual Tokyo Marathon will be held on February 26, with 36,000 runners who luckily win the lottery from 283,988 applicants. At the marathon, one of the official supplier Dole Japan is going to provide 96,000 "lucky" bananas, named "Goku Sen"(Extremely Selected) [J], which will be chosen from its over 100 kind of [...]

Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012

CyberAgent [J] announced on December 30th of 2011 that the number of users of their “Ameba” [J] community has topped 20 million.  To commemorate this momentous development of the “Ameba” service, they held the 20 Million Member Breakthrough! Thank You Campaign [J] between January 10th and 23rd. Since the Ameba service opened in September of [...]

CyberAgent’s “Ameba” Tops 20 Million Users

Takeo city, in Saga prefecture in Kyushu island, has been known by its net-savvy mayor Keisuke Hiwatashi. As a mayor, he switched the city website onto Facebook page, which gets 50 times more page views according to Asahi [J], and let the Facebook page sell the local products on Facebook. he also called for Japan [...]

Takeo-city To Force All Employees To Register And Work On Facebook

DeNA, who runs Mobage, announced today [J] that it instituted legal action to demand Gree and its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka an apology and compensation for the loss caused by Gree's press release and Tanaka's comments, which stated that DeNA did illegal business activities. As we reported in December, DeNA expressed [J] the possibility of counter [...]

DeNA Sues Back To Gree And Its CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka

JKT48, the Indonesian sister band of ultra-popular Japanese girl group AKB48 (Asiajin), is promoting Rakuten Belanja Online, Rakuten's joint venture with Jakarta-based media powerhouse PT Global Mediacom, on Indonesian TV. In the 30-second commercial, various members of the group can be seen wearing different clothes and accessories and using gadgets - and apparently all items can [...]

Video: Girl Band JKT48 (AKB48′s Sister Band) Promoting Rakuten In Indonesia

Pixiv, the most popular of Japan's many social drawing services, announced [ENG] it hit an amazing four million registered users last Saturday (January 28). It took the site, which launched on September 10 in 2007, exactly 1,602 days to reach that milestone. That's about 2,500 users per day - not bad at all, especially for [...]

Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 4 Million Members

This week's Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Navit Allegedly Manipulates Reviews On @Cosme By Using Trial Samples And Reward - Navit counter-release said that it is not manipulation but request. KDDI au Offers Opt-Out From Targeted Ads, But [...]

Japan’s Web News Week 4

Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address. Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger address books to search your friend on Twitter. Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book

Twitter Japan Add A Function To Find Friends From Yahoo! Japan Address Book

Downloads of “Hage-mu” (Bald Game in English version, comes from "hage(bald)" and "game"), an iPhone application for gliding on the bald heads of guys from around the world offered by CYDER, [J] have topped over 400,000.  As a commemoration of its release, it is now being offered on sale for a price of 85 yen. [...]

App For Sliding On Bald Mens’ Heads: “Hage-mu” Reaches 400,000 Downloads