April 2008 – Page 2

Fujiwara Norika (AKA Tomonori Jinnai’s wife) has Built a School in Cambodia

Japan Entertainment, japanese girls / jay

Sexy Japanese actress Norika Fujiwara has rebuilt a school in Cambodia through her charity organization. The school is large enough for 600 students and is made of concrete. She used the proceeds from her book of essays “Norika Spirit”. Here’s a link to her official homepage: Norika Fujiwara Official Website More importantly sh’s married to […]

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AU KDDI’s EZ-mail server will now automatically save all email using Gmail’s system

Google Japan / jay

I reported before the tight relationship I think Google is developing with Japan’s mobile companies. More and more cell phones are using google as their default search. Spearheading this is AU which has tied it’s online email service directly to Gmail, currently offering 6GB of space. The new news states that all mail sent with

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Sony starts an affiliate service for blogs in Japan called Blogent

Uncategorized / jay

I first saw this on the Nikkei Weekly ITPro News site. It seems that sony is hoping to sell a lot of product by allowing bloggers to write reviews, and use pictures of their products on their blogs.They hope to take on 30,000 affiliate members in an effort to sell at least 2,000,000,000 yen worth

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Mobagee (www.mbga.jp) Japanese Cell Phone Game Site Passes

Uncategorized / jay

This Japanese tech news site) reports that Japan’s largest cell phone / mobile phone game site, called Moba-gee (moba for mobile and gee for game), has surpassed 10,000,000 members. Considering that Japan’s population was calculated as 127,767,994, it sounds like there are multiple memberships going on. I’m not sure how they are monetizing the site,

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What Do People in Japan Believe? An Asahi Shimbun Poll Shows It All

Japanese Culture / jay

I have to admit. It’s always seemed a bit funny and surprising to me when I heard friends assert that it wouldn’t rain, even when I could smell it in the air and see the clouds a-coming. I’ve been told on a Sunday that it would snow on Wednesday, and right up until Thursday my

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Japan makes CNN’s front page again with another story about escorts

japanese girls, japanese news and society / jay

This time they throw in the term “geisha guys” for creditability. Check the article here, entitled: Japan’s ‘geisha guys’ the latest accessory CNN could report on stories about the Prime Minister’s approval rating, the murder of the taxi driver by a U.S. marine, even the murder of the Filipina hostess I wrote about just today

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Filipina murdered and dismembered in Japan by Japanese man

1 Comment / crime in japan / jay

Note: I emphasize that the perpetrator in this case is Japanese not because it is unlikely but to put emphasis on the fact. While the really big news in Japan is about crimes committed by non-Japanese here, there is a lot of types of crime here which seem to be growing exponentially. Domestic Violence is

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Tetsuwan Atom AKA Astro Boy’s Birthday Google Logo

Uncategorized / jay

I first saw this in the Google Mania blog here in Japan in this entry. April 7th is Astro Boy’s birthday so Google’s made themselves a nice Astro Boy Google Logo. A must see for fans of old school anime!

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Just for Fun – Japanese Comedy YouTube Video about How to Use Chopsticks

Japanese Culture / jay

I came across this video while looking for some historical Japanese news footage for personal study. This is apparently a series. I’d be happy to embed some more of them if people are interested in seeing them. This video starts out with very subtle comedy. It’s a lot of fun, but I don’t know if

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Somebody Revolt or Something! Prime Minister Fukuda’s Approval at 26.6%

Japanese Government / jay

If I have any readers from England or any other country with a prime minister, I have to ask!!! Would this fly? Wouldn’t there be a call for elections way before the approval had sunk this low. The government has already missed its own deadline for resolving the missing pensions debacle, is giving a one

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Japanese Pre-school Parents’ Crazy Requests

japanese education / jay

If you, like most of the major journalists in the U.S. (see my pop-Japanology posts), are under the mistaken impression that Japan is an unassuming, grin-and-bear-it type of society, here’s a great list of some of the things today’s Japanese parents are expecting from their kids’ preschools. “I’m busy in the mornings so the day

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“Guzen dazo!” “It’s Gonna Happen!” mistranslation? Big buzz in sports in japan!

Japanese Sports / jay

Japan is all abuzz about this fan seen at the Cubs game He was holding up a sign which said, “It’s Gonna Happen!” on one side, and “Guzen dazo!” on the other side in Japanese characters. Assuming that the English for “It’s gonna happen” is correct, then “Guzen dazo” which sounds more like, “It’s just

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