We're Big in Japan

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Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Nissho
Iwai-Nichimen, Casio

Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Nissho
Iwai-Nichimen, Casio 05/11/2004 10:16 PM
Forbes May 12 2004 2:25AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-Bridgestone, Yahoo
Japan, Nissho Iwai-Nichimen

Japan Hot Stocks-Bridgestone, Yahoo
Japan, Nissho Iwai-Nichimen 05/11/2004 10:16 PM
Forbes May 12 2004 2:25AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo
Japan, Alps, NTT DoCoMo

Japan Hot Stocks-Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo
Japan, Alps, NTT DoCoMo 02/17/2004 09:19 PM
Forbes Feb 18 2004 1:52AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-Vodafone Holdings,
Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo Japan

Japan Hot Stocks-Vodafone Holdings,
Nippon Shinpan, Yahoo Japan 02/17/2004 11:53 PM
Forbes Feb 18 2004 4:22AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Mitsubishi
Motors, Toshiba, UFJ

Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Mitsubishi
Motors, Toshiba, UFJ 04/25/2004 10:03 PM
Forbes Apr 26 2004 2:40AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Alps, NTT
DoCoMo

Japan Hot Stocks-Yahoo Japan, Alps, NTT
DoCoMo 02/17/2004 09:06 PM
Forbes Feb 18 2004 1:23AM GMT

Japan.com - Technology - Magnetic Fan in
Japan - Japanese Magnetic Fan

Japan.com - Technology - Magnetic Fan in
Japan - Japanese Magnetic Fan 04/17/2004 04:38 PM
The Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine: Kohei Minato and the Japan Magnetic Fan Company .. Flash: Japan Saves the world with magnets! Japanese magnets! .. has created a new kind of motor .. this article on Japan.com .. uses 80% less power

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Y! Japan Day #3

Y! Japan Day #3 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Lots of good talks today. From the point of view of a US engineer, it was an especially interesting day. Why? Because most of the day was taken up by representatives from each of the non-US properties talking about what they've been up to, problems they're having, and so on. We got to hear from: Australia China Europe Hong Kong Japan Korea Latin America Singapore Taiwan (Kimo) After the formal presentations were over, a group of us headed out...

Y! Japan Day #2

Y! Japan Day #2 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Day #2 went well. I did my ~1.5 hours of MySQL presentations in the afternoon. (Rasmus did PHP in the morning.) Initial feedback is good except for the fact that I spoke too quickly during the first talk. Luckily someone reminded me to slow down for the second one. In the evening, we headed downstairs to celebrate the Y! Japan earnings announcement (they kicked some ass). All the non-Japan folks got to stand up on stage to get recognized. However,...

Y! Japan Day #1 is Over

Y! Japan Day #1 is Over 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
The first day of stuff at Y! Japan is over. We ended the day with a nice welcome reception/party that just ended a bit ago. And I had a few Japanese beers, which is always a good thing. The day went well. The network flaked out once, but it was fixed pretty quickly. I'm getting a chance to meet people that I've only known by name (if at all) from various other offices, including Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and even...

Japan: 100%

Japan: 100% 06/18/2004 03:56 PM
100 Ridiculous Tragedies: they have Pie Charts.

Battlestar Japan

Battlestar Japan 05/23/2004 06:20 AM

You just gotta love a country where they show live, professional go games on TV... With commentary! :-)

Well, another three hour ordeal, and this wasn't actually such a bad experience (as the aforementioned Troy).

I'm talking about the pilot of the new edition of Battlestar Galactica, which I had the opportunity of catching on the flight. I remember watching the original series when I was really young - we had to get a new TV to watch it. Our old Philips did not have an UHF receiver, and BG was on TV2 - so we got a new Goldstar black-and-white set. Oh, the memories.

But this new version is actually not half bad. OK, so Starbuck and Boomer are women (and there's some electricity between Starback and Apollo already), though I liked the character of Cassiopeia from the original series more. But it's perhaps the sign of the times. No real complaints. The effects were wonderful, and having actually silent space travel and semi-newtonian physics felt good for a change. The space combats were staged well, though I still long for the old-style Cylon fighters. They were the scariest things still seen on TV, these new ones just look like something stolen out of a computer game. I especially loved the "debris rain", and the fact that most of the characters were really rather intelligent. No glaring plot holes or gaping amounts of stupidity yet...

But yeah, I could see myself growing to like this. It's miles better than Galactica 1980, anyway... (Sheesh, flying motorcycles?)

(Yah, I'm in Tokyo now, and managed to catch a flu as well. Bugger.)

Photoblox in Japan

Photoblox in Japan 05/25/2004 04:25 PM

Apparently a bunch of Japanese bloggers have discovered Laszlo's Photoblox's photo album component and embedded it into their blogs!  The Google results comes back with 1,500 hits.

I'm not that surprised that this has happened, as much as wondering "how did this happen?"

Via my blog?  Joi?  I don;t believe Joi even knows or notices anything about Laszlo, so i gotta wonder "hoe the hell did they find out about Photoblox?"

If anyone knows (Adriaan?) - let me know!  Thanks

UPDATE:  This just in from Lyndon Wong, Photoblox Product Manager....

Hey Marc,

There's seriously something going on with PhotoBlox in Japan. Numerous blogs with embedded, customized photobloxes. A google search indicates there are more photoblox users in Japan than in the rest of the world combined.

Lyndon

Intel Wants Japan

Intel Wants Japan 11/17/2003 05:26 PM
Motley Fool Nov 17 2003 4:33PM ET

Japan: Recovery at Last

Japan: Recovery at Last 05/25/2004 02:43 PM
Is now finally the time to buy into Japan?

"How many hours does it take to go to
Japan by car?"

"How many hours does it take to go to
Japan by car?" 08/07/2004 03:28 AM

First 24 hours in Japan

First 24 hours in Japan 08/09/2004 07:37 AM

My first 24 hours in Japan included the following:

• a soak in a traditional Japanese public bath
• a swim in a 25-yard pool
• a visit to an enormous Buddhist temple complex that has been an important pilgrimage site for hundreds of years
• a semi-traditional tea ceremony
• walking around three koi ponds
• a meal in a restaurant that has been in the same family and at the same location for more than 300 years

All this without leaving Narita, the town in which Tokyo's international airport is located!

Beer in Japan

Beer in Japan 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
Some of the little things about visiting Japan amuse me the most. As an example, while browsing a store on Sunday we came across Diet Beer: And the fact that Budwiser is an import in Japan, and therefore more desirable by some, takes a bit of getting used to as well. All in all, I had a good trip. I'll surely have more to say about it in the next few days....

3G Up to Speed in Japan

3G Up to Speed in Japan 06/11/2004 09:51 AM
Wireless Watch Japan Jun 11 2004 2:20PM GMT

Rent-a-dog in Japan. You know, I'd do
that

Rent-a-dog in Japan. You know, I'd do
that 06/30/2004 08:57 PM
Rental puppies lead a bizarre life

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typepad japan

typepad japan 06/30/2004 02:34 AM
congrats to the japan team on the announcement... you guys just keep rocking!

Back to Japan

Back to Japan 07/17/2004 01:05 PM

I'm on my way back to Japan. I thought I was going back to Japan yesterday, but AFTER I checked my bags through to Tokyo, I looked at my ticket and realized that I had a one night layover in San Francisco. I should have stayed in Aspen. The weather (the fourth time in the last year) grounded my flight to Denver, but I made it safely to San Francisco.

Anyway, thanks for all the wonderful thoughts from the people at Fortune Brainstorm 2004. It was GREAT. Once again, the small size and diversity of the people totally trumped any other conference I've been to in a year since the last one. See you next year. (hint hint David)

See you again in Japan.

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What's up between Japan and Korea

What's up between Japan and Korea 04/06/2005 03:22 PM

History Lesson: Heart of the matter by Hayami Ichikawa and others at Asahi Shimbun in Japan pinpoints the real issue behind the ongoing conflict between Japan and Korea over Dokdo (Takeshima) islets: Koizumi and his cabinet are clueless.

Hayami understands why Koreans are so upset over Dokdo and explains it well:

To the South Koreans, Takeshima, a group of islets called Tokto in Korean, represents a symbol of Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula.

The incorporation of the Sea of Japan isles into Shimane Prefecture on Feb. 22, 1905, is viewed as a prelude to what Japan was later to inflict upon the peninsula.

It's now 2005 and it seems to be happening all over again.

Japanese government's history whitewashing service covers US too because mentions of the fact that no WMD has been found in Iraq were removed from school textbook drafts at the request of Japanese government officials.

Pretty funny?  Well, not if you consider that Japan is trying to buy a seat in the UN Security Council.  Brrrrr!

Rio Japan Si-300 and Si-200c

Rio Japan Si-300 and Si-200c 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/si-300c.jpg" alt="si-300c.jpg image" width="180" height="183" class="right"/>Rio Japan has announced two new flash memory-based players, the Si-300 and the Si-200C. Both players use that very attractive "OLED screen behind a mirror" bit to hide their display when its not in use. The 2i-200C [pictured] is a pendant-style answer to the iRiver N10, although at 4cm square it might be a bit too big to be practical. Both players will be available at the end of this month at $200 for the Si-300 and $160 for the Si-200c.

P ress Release (Japanese) [RioAudioJP via SorobanGeeks]< /p>

"starting in Japan"

"starting in Japan" 08/05/2004 08:39 AM

Technorati Japan

Technorati Japan 12/22/2004 01:55 AM

Technorati and Digital Garage just announced that they will work together to set up Technorati Japan which will be established as a subsidiary of Digital Garage and will distribute Technorati services in Japan. I am a co-founder and former co-CEO of Digital Garage. Digital Garage was a company that Kaoru Hayashi and I established in 1994 and we merged his advertising business and my Internet business together. We ran the company together and did a bunch of things like bring Infoseek to Japan. I later left the company to help run Infoseek Japan when it was spun out. This is the first real work I've done with Digital Garage since I left. It is really deja vu. When we brought Infoseek to Japan, people didn't understand the concept of ad impressions and we had to do a lot of teaching. We had to explain that impressions and clickthroughs could be measured unlike sponsorships and ads in magazines.

With Technorati Japan, we're going to go through a similar process again, this time explaining that it's now about conversations. We need to explain that companies and people can see what other people are saying in real time and participate in the conversations, and that it's not about banner ads anymore. I'm also excited that we will soon have a Japanese Technorati site for all of the Japanese bloggers.

We hope to get the service running sometime next year, but we're going to get started right away trying to get people to understand what this real live web and conversation stuff is all about.

Obviously, Japan is just the first step in our international strategy, but it's nice being able to do it with a team that I know and trust. It's also fun watching my old family meet and work with my new family. And last but not least, welcome to our family Gen. Gen left Sony and joined Digital Garage to work on Technorati Japan.

Dave has blogged about this too.

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Jeff In Japan

Jeff In Japan 12/03/2002 11:46 AM

My good friend Jeff moved to japan not that long ago. He took this picture with his cellphone and emailed it to me with his cellphone. Pretty cool how the phone can do that, and the picture doesn't suck either.

Y! Japan Days #4 and #5

Y! Japan Days #4 and #5 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
More good talks, good food, good drinks, and good people. Lots of fun. I don't have time to write up much more at the moment, but I've updated the pictures with the latest. Tomorrow (Saturday) morning, some folks are heading to the Tokyo Auto Show, some to the fish market, and a few of us go to Akihabara to go gadget shopping. Guess which group I'm in... :-) Useful stuff: Tokyo Metro Network Subway Map (flash required) That's all...

Mac Games: (Not) Big in Japan

Mac Games: (Not) Big in Japan 09/21/2004 06:37 AM
Mac gaming in Japan is in a slump: There are no Mac games. But a very unlikely savior has just stepped in to rescue gaming on the Mac. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.

26Mbit DSL in Japan

26Mbit DSL in Japan 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
If I lived in Japan, I could have have a 26Mbit DSL connection via Yahoo! BroadBand (Y! BB). Holy crap! What's it cost, you wonder? A bit less than my 1.5Mbit DSL or 3Mbit Cable in the US. Think about it this way. In the 20-30 seconds it normally takes to establish a dial-up connection and get an IP address, you could have downloaded 60MB worth of data. If you don't live close to the central office, you have to...

NTT DoCoMo Pulls Out of AOL Japan

NTT DoCoMo Pulls Out of AOL Japan 12/18/2003 09:17 AM
BizReport.com Dec 18 2003 8:20AM ET

Google to Set Up R&D Center in Japan

Google to Set Up R&D Center in Japan 04/21/2004 01:05 PM
From the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FD22Dh03.html: "Google Inc, the US provider of the world's leading Internet search engine service, plans to set up a research and development (R&D) center in Japan...

Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050

Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050 12/31/2003 03:42 PM
securitas writes "Red Herring has a brief article about wide-scale VoIP deployment in Japan with the introduction of the new 050 area code. The new area code ...

Vodafone: thin in Japan

Vodafone: thin in Japan 07/26/2004 05:34 AM
Tops forecasts elsewhere

Japan Gets New Laptops, Smirks

Japan Gets New Laptops, Smirks 04/22/2004 10:36 AM
Some new Japanese laptop news from Continental Op: Two new Japan-only Fujitsu ‘Loox’ laptops [right] have been released, the T70H and the T50H, both with biometric fingerprint scanners built in to the chassis just below the trackpad, to protect your data and impress your friends. Plus, Panasonic has released new...

Google Opens R&D Lab in Japan

Google Opens R&D Lab in Japan 04/22/2004 04:02 PM
"The location will be charged with developing search engine software that is easier for the Japanese to use"

3G Finally Dawneth in Japan

3G Finally Dawneth in Japan 07/08/2004 01:51 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Jul 8 2004 5:37PM GMT

In Japan, Microsoft gives bl0gging a try

In Japan, Microsoft gives bl0gging a try 08/04/2004 09:34 AM
ZDNet Aug 4 2004 1:53PM GMT

Sony's PSX sells out in Japan

Sony's PSX sells out in Japan 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
The haters (by which I mean analysts), dubbed the PSX a "publicity stunt" and predicted that it wouldn't sell well, but that didn't stop Sony's...
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