The official Google blog recently featured a very cute video advertising Google Chrome which was made by the Google Japan team. I’ve embedded the video below for those of you who are interested… the interesting thing to me is that this video has been seen over two million times with its English language title on…
Newzjapan is a big Google fan, so we’ve written before about the long awaited appearance of Google Street View in Okinawa, Hiroshima, and other non-Tokyo locations, not to mention the debate about privacy and Google Street View in Japan. We even wrote about the first time that Street View came to Japan. Gigazine Japan recently reported…
I love reading the little hints that float around that show the small but effective revolution Google is pulling off in Japan. If you follow the news, you know why Yahoo is bigger than Google in Japan, but I’ve also been writing about how Google has been gaining ground by approaching the Japanese market through…
Submitting my Japanese language site to Yahoo brought me to the SiteExplorer page. It seems to be something like Google’s Webmaster Tools. Once you are logged in with your Yahoo! Japan idea, you can submit a site to site explorer. It asks you to either upload an HTML page or put a meta tag in…
As some readers of this blog may know, I write a blog in Japanese in addition to this one. This newzjapan blog is a good place to get things off my chest and write about things that interest me or get under my skin. SEO or Search Engine Optimization is basically making your website appealing…
Until today, if you tried to watch a Youtube video over a certain length in Japan, you were probably given an error message. Starting today Youtube Japan is offering the longer videos broken up into sections, so that videos of any length are now available on all three mobile carriers. Most Softbank and AU KDDI…
This is easily the best April Fool I’ve seen this year… I like it because it takes people’s misconceptions about Japan and smacks them over the head with them like a big Hokkaido salmon. Digital World Tokyo (which seems like a great website that I’ve only just discovered), wrote this article on April 1st….
Google Japan is going for laughs again like last year with their April Fool’s joke, but at least it ties in with the worldwide Google’s April Fool’s Day Cadie joke. Of course, you should take a look at CADIE’S Intriguing Homepage to get the idea. Japan’s version is a little less… pop culturey and a…
Today is a Japanese national holiday called Spring Day or “Vernal Equinox”. The Japanese name for it is Shumbun no Hi. It seems that Google Japan has gone with a nice theme that elicits images of Spring and Nature… using Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” as a theme for it’s logo. I have to…
The Epson E-reader is not designed for private consumers and has less shades of gray than the Kindle 2… HOWEVER, the Fujitsu FLEPia is color, runs on Windows CE 5.0, and is designed for consumers… Of course, priced at nearly a thousand dollars, it’s not targeted toward this particular consumer. The good things about the…
I have kindle Japan in my Google Alerts, and also the katakana for Amazon Kindle. If you read this blog, you may know that I very much want a kindle in Japan, but I’ve decided not to buy one until I have Japanese language support. So I’m waiting for the good news from Amazon (or…
I was originally planning to write this as a comment on Mashable’s recent post called When It Comes To Search, Yahoo is Big in Japan but it got too long as I read a few of the comments (some of whom were knowledgeable others did the pop-Japanology thing and generalized the whole country as “a…