From the Cutting Room Recycling Bin
In Japanese news, picked up randomly: Niconico Douga, the Japanese video-sharing website akin to YouTube, has gained HTML5 video-playback ....
29 Sep 6:44 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The New Yorker on iPad
The big news in the digital magazine world this week is of course the release of Conde Nast’s The New Yorker app. It was designed by the ....
29 Sep 1:04 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Korea Telecom iTrend iPhone App
Korea Telecom, South Korea’s second-largest landline and mobile telecom company and the country’s iPhone carrier, announced this morni....
27 Sep 11:08 am  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
AR Convenience Store Locator App
Apple iDevice app development company Presselite have released a new app for iPhones, コンビニ, on the App Store. It uses augmented re....
24 Sep 4:08 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Writer by Information Architects
Oliver from Information Architects has been teasing his company’s writing app for iPad for a while now, but the wait is over, and you can....
23 Sep 1:21 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Live in the Future, and It’s on the iPad
I rather like Nick Bilton’s tech coverage for The New York Times — he runs the Bits blog — and this week he has a new book out called....
21 Sep 1:04 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Gray Suits Me
I find it interesting that three of the apps I use the most on my iPad — Twitter, Reeder, and The New York Times’ Editors’ Choice app....
17 Sep 5:02 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Graphic.ly Reading Comics
So far your main option for buying and reading comics on the iPad as been the Comixology app, and its sweet of publisher-specific spinoffs ....
15 Sep 4:07 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Longshot, the 48 Hours Magazine
You may remember the experiment earlier this year that saw contributors from all over the world get together over a 2-day period to produce....
11 Sep 12:49 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Too busy to learn Japanese? Try Toaster!
I’ve been developing educational software for Japanese learners for over a year now, and I’ve had an opportunity to meet both student....
11 Sep 7:20 am  from  Nihongoup   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Primesta latest Hinako Push-up App for Android is just plain… Weird.
Think you seen everything yet? Think again, here you are Primesta latest goodies based on their “Hinako” virtual character, “Isshoni ....
9 Aug 3:33 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Kotoba!: More than just words
Ah, the electronic dictionary. One of the most, if not the most, important tools you can have while learning Japanese. The big problem is ....
14 Jul 3:00 pm  from  Just Another Day in Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A mobile app for city residents to monitor and promote urban wildlife
Takahashi Yusuke, a database expert with a Keio PhD, and I created a poster for the URBIO conference last month introducing a mobile app fo....
30 Jun 9:02 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What’s The Best Japanese Language Electronic Dictionary?
I get all kinds of weird questions in my e-mail inbox. Sometimes they’re creepy, sometimes they’re hilarious, sometimes they’re inter....
22 Jun 8:28 am  from  Tofugu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese 101: Numbers
Considering that I reviewed the Japanese particles application just a little while ago, here I go with the equivalent appli....
12 Jun 6:10 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
NicoNama iPhone App is out!
【ニコニコ動画】ニコニコ生放送iPhoneアプリが登場 Not exactly quick on the heels of the NicoDou iPhone app, we now have ....
18 May 5:04 am  from  Yamatologic   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese 101: Particles
It’s been quite some time since I last wrote about the Japanese language, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been studyi....
30 Apr 1:45 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
SoftBank Goes Android With HTC Desire
SoftBank, the number 2 Japan carrier, is going Android after all. As we broke news earlier, the operator announced that it would start carry....
8 Apr 9:00 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Review: Live Link 3G J – Videophone iPhone App
Live Link 3G J [iTunes Japan only, Free] from Yudo.jp brings free video conferencing to the iPhone in Japan – over the 3G network. Using ....
7 Apr 1:38 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
The best Japanese dictionary App
The best Japanese dictionary App I did a post about must have applications for iPhone and iTouch back a month ago and a recent version on G....
23 Mar 10:31 am  from  gaijinlife   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Useful iPhone apps for traveling around Japan
By Greenose Zazaki Guest Contributor I am a Hong Kong Chinese who loves to travel to Japan a lot. Even though my wife is a native Japanese,....
21 Feb 8:36 pm  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 
NHK World on Your iPhone
Yesterday when I was out in the field looking for some new iPhone apps to play with, I stumbled upon the NHK World app when searching for wa....
17 Feb 9:18 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
Japan has a plethora of TV channels, but the biggest battleship is NHK [JP], the country’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK....
9 Feb 1:36 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
iPhone App helps to practice Japanese particles
Harvey is the Webmaster of the 5+-year-old JapanNewbie.com. He lived in Japan from 2001 to 2007 and passed JLPT level 1 in 2003. He is now ....
1 Dec 10:44 pm  from  Wide Island View   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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