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She created Japan’s Xiaomi, launching 21 gadgets in 2 months
Japan’s consumer electronics giants are struggling. Today’s Sony, for example, bears little resemblance to the industry leader it was in the eighties and nineties. Since February 2014, it’s spun off...
View ArticleKickstart a music game that teaches you to write Japanese
If you’ve ever studied Japanese, you’ll know that the process of reading, writing, and pronouncing the language starts with its phonetic syllabary, hiragana. If you’ve never studied Japanese, or have...
View ArticleFreedom Wars: it’s survival of the fittest for Japanese speakers this June 26
Playstation Vita exclusive Freedom Wars will be out in Japanese this June 26, with a Traditional Chinese edition to follow in August. The physical game will cost S$69.90 ($55.70) at launch, while a...
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Pre Arc Revolution Cup tournament announced for three Arc System Works titles
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold, and Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- are more than just games with overly long and complex names. They are the current flagship arcade...
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Conception II could be the perfect example of everything that’s wrong with...
Conception II is a JRPG developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by Atlus for the 3DS and PlayStation Vita. It’s due for release in the summer of 2014. Conception II revolves around a young man who...
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Tone Troubles? Qooco Teaches Tonal Languages on your Smartphone
I’ve been studying Mandarin Chinese at varying intensities for almost four years now, but I admit I still tend to neglect the tones, both when listening and speaking. For the uninitiated, almost every...
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Fun New Language Tools in iOS 6 and OS X
Photo: Cnet Over on Sinosplice, John Pasden [1] points out the text-to-speech function in iOS 6, and notes that it can even read Chinese text even when your iPhone’s language is set to English [2]. To...
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24% of Web Content is Now in Chinese, Will Soon Surpass English [Infographic]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. A new infographic shows that Chinese will soon overtake English as the dominant language...
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Path to be Available in Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian Soon
“Hello World,” says Path on its latest blog post. The social network which limits you to 150 of your closest friends is seeing a lot of traction in Asia. And to facilitate faster growth, Path is...
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New Rikai Browser Lets You Read Chinese with Ease
For language students, the smartphone revolution has brought many tools to help with your study. I’m a big fan of SRSs which help you ‘bury’ the things you already know, in favor of studying the...
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Google Translate for Android Adds Handwriting Recognition, Supports Japanese...
The Google Translate app for Android just added an experimental handwriting recognition support for a number of languages: English, French, Italian, and German – but perhaps far more importantly, for...
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Google Japanese Input Now Available on Android
On Tuesday we told you about Baidu Japan’s pickup of Simeji, a Japanese input method editor (IME) for Android. Well, it seems Android users now have another Japanese IME option available as the big G...
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Limelight Builds Showcase Sites For Your Apps, Now Serving Japan
Limelight is a clever service that recently came to our attention, which aims to help app developers put together a simple, beautiful site to market their application. You can check out the video...
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7notes Converts Your Handwritten iPad Notes
At the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo today, Japanese company Metamoji gave a short presentation about its recently launched 7notes app. It’s a handwriting conversion application that despite...
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ABCLoop: A Community For English and Japanese Language Learners
I recently had a chance to visit Open Network Lab, a start-up incubation program in Tokyo, Japan. One of the first start-ups that I’d like to tell you about, among the many that I had the pleasure of...
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50 Million Users Strong, mig33 Announces Developer Program with GREE
“Knock knock,” mobile game developers. Here’s news not to be missed. If you’re snubbing the Asian market, it’s time to wake up and look at what’s happening in the mobile sector in Asia. mig33, the...
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YouTube Adds Japanese Machine Transcription
According to a video posted by Masaru Kamikura, YouTube now supports machine transcription for Japanese language videos, in addition to English. I tried uploading (random) a Japanese video just to...
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Twitter Rolls Out Hashtag Support for Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Russian
Akky over on Asiajin just pointed out that Twitter has rolled out support for Japanese hashtags. So where before Japanese users would use a phonetic hashtag to represent a Japanese word (e.g. ‘jishin’...
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The Problem with Facebook in Japan
Adam is a dedicated researcher about new media trends. He has been researching about online social networks since 2005. The Japanese online community has always been known to value anonymity. Past...
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Alibaba Helps Japanese Firms Enter China Through Taobao
China seems to be on everyone’s radar this year, including Japan. But it isn’t an easy market to start a business. Its laws, culture, and language differences are some of the biggest barriers for firms...
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