Japanese media

Japanese Media Create Hardware Sales for week ending 22/11: DSiLL debuts with 100K

El33tonline (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

... 32,844 PSP -32,752 DSi - 32,070 DS Lite - 5,051 PSPgo - 4,574 Xbox 360 - 4,085 PS2 - 2,024 Source: Media Create

US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit

American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

The Japanese media has reported that Obama's recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president perpetrated upon greeting the Japanese Emperor Akihito.

• US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit - Big Government

Japanese Media Create Software Sales for week ending 22/11: Left for Dead 2, Mario & Sonic debut in Top 10

El33tonline (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver has jumped back up the Media Create Japanese software chart to claim first place with 55 000 copies. Tomodachi Collection, another regular in the Top 10, climbs up two spots to number 2 with 49 000 copies, while Wii Fit Plus is at number 3, also moving up two places with 43 000 copies. Last week’s number 7 Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders...

Steve Irwin Retains the Dutch Tri-Color

Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

Steve Irwin Retains the Dutch Tri-Color Japanese Whalers Fail in Bid to Strike the Flag Dutch Transport Minister Tineke Huizinga has rejected a Japanese government complaint and demand to remove the Dutch flag from the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin . The Japanese Prime Minster brought the matter to the attention of Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende a month ago when Balkenende...

“Misunderstanding”: Twitter Japan Now Says There Won’t Be A Subscription Model

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

We reported yesterday about Twitter Japan's plans to start charging followers to view tweets from certain users starting January and explained why this paid subscription model could work in Japan . Well, please forget it, this won't happen. Just a few minutes ago, Digital Garage (the company responsible for Twitter operations in Japan), issued a press release ( English PDF , Japanese PDF )...

Monetizing Twitter in Japan

Lean Mean Fighting Machine (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Look out: "Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge people to view tweets from certain premium Twitter accounts." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/27/twitter-japan-paid-premium-accounts/

Twitter Japan To Introduce Paid Premium Accounts Next January

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary ( Twicco ), which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company ( Groups , Twitvideo.jp ). Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered...

The Prime Minister, the Mother, the Aide and the "Scandal"

Asian Gazette (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Image of the "1950's Akira Kurosawa’s Scandal movie**" Akira Kurosawa’s Scandal was a tough description of the rising power of the Japanese press and their practices in the newly-Americanised postwar Japan of 1950. Kurosawa was outraged by the gutter press actions, where “personal privacy is never respected” , and by how the public’s voyeuristic tendency...

NPR report on Japan’s herbivore men

Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

NPR has finally discovered the “herbivore men” that the Japanese media seems obsessed with lately: “It’s not so much that men are becoming more like women. It’s that the concept of masculinity is changing,” says Katsuhiko Kokobun. From his perch at Guzzle, the popular Harajuku hair salon he owns, Kokobun is at the front line of [...]

Miguel Cabrera? No thanks

Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

Miguel Cabrera had a fantastic season (although not MVP-worthy, with all due respect to my Japanese media colleague) for the Tigers. He had a .942 OPS, hit 34 homers and scored 96 runs. He's also only 26. There are assorted...