The world’s first On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) has entered service in Seoul, South Korea. The train-like vehicle is powered via electr....
11 Mar 12:06 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The February 2010 edition of the “Gekkan J-News Review”, a monthly wrap of five entertaining articles, events or observations related to....
2 Mar 7:54 pm  from  loneleeplanet   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I received an e-mail from my former student with the following information:Something of interest to your vis anth students I'm sure...Royal ....
24 Feb 8:21 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Remember our good friends over at Kalyhost, who are jumping into the wild world of domain name and hosting? Well they have a pretty nice o....
24 Feb 2:24 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Some of you probably know about the fashion blog I used to run on higashifashion.com. It didn’t last long because it was too much work for....
24 Feb 2:53 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Tomorrow 20th February, the first BarCamp in Hokuriku area in Japan, BarCamp Kanazawa will be held at Kanazawa city, Ishikawa. Akky, one of....
19 Feb 3:44 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Dear reader and dear friends I would like to introduce you to the newly launch Website Kalyhost from Tibanne k.k a young Japanese company t....
17 Feb 5:26 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Announcement from Japan Today:Stephen Cleary, one of the most experienced and respected story/script consultants and development experts in ....
17 Feb 12:32 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Image borrowed from Shugendo Now Welcome PageAn announcement from H-Japan brought this film to my attention. Here is a brief description for....
26 Jan 5:49 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Photo borrowed from body. space. time. – Japanese Video Art Exhibition(curated by Masayo KAJIMURA and Saskia Wendland) http://www.nipponco....
25 Jan 6:39 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Photo borrowed from karakuri.info.Here's an announcement about the Kyoto Asian Studies Group February meeting (via H-Japan):This February, t....
22 Jan 7:27 am  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Quick announcement for a Ustream event that’s going to take place this week: Tokyo-based Beat Communication, widely regarded as being on....
17 Jan 4:57 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Here’s a news item of a different kind: The next Winter Paralympics, basically the Winter Olympics for athletes with physical and visual....
14 Jan 4:00 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto(@akky) is now staying in Taipei, Taiwan, and he is intend to have a presentation about Japanese current tech....
7 Jan 1:47 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Hong Kong-, Tokyo-, Silicon Valley- and London-based tech start-up MotherApp has kindly developed the iPhone/iPod Touch app which allows Asi....
5 Jan 5:59 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduc....
21 Nov 3:01 am  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Tokyo-based mobile tech start-up developing photo recognition apps, J-Magic[J] is now said to shut down its business and office very shortl....
20 Nov 12:10 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent]