This is English version of Japanese blog media "vsmedia". About Japanese Social Games & Apps, Augmented reality, Virtual Worlds, Avatar, Virtual Goods, Social Media, Fab Culture...etc...
Japan's Okinawa is the place where an intense ground war was carried out in Pacific War. And there are people killed in action of a large quantity of numerical private citizen. However, it is not known very much. Therefore Okinawa showed digital archive using Google Earth "The Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA".
This is the archive which mapped data of the Okinawa ground war on Google Earth.
Many icons are displayed on Okinawa. The icons of the face of people show an interview video.
Click them, we can watch the interview Youtube video of the survivor of the Okinawa ground war.
Furthermore, we can watch photos of Okinawa at the time of the Pacific War. They are put on a map of current Okinawa.
An interesting point of these data are that not only the geolocation but also the time axes is given these. We can watch data with this "time slider".
For example, there are few data at the time of the Pacific War outbreak.
However, there are many data at the time of the Pacific War end.
In addition, Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum and Okinawa Archives Building cooperate with this archive production entirely. So many valuable data are collected. Besides, we can watch all this free.
This helps the peace learning of the school very much. Of course English is supported.
Their Twitter account is called "Fin-tan(フィンたん)" to a Japanese Twitter user, and is loved. Therefore, they invited public participation for a personification character of Fin-tan.
Then such works gathered.
The works have been already used as their Twitter icon. In addition, these are used for the ticket design of a "Finland film festival 2012" started on September 15 in Tokyo.
Not only men but also women play dating sim in Japan. Voltage is a developer Dating sim for women of Japanese representative. They release dating sim application for smartphones for the North America market. They released "Be My Princess" yesterday. This is for North America localization of Japanese "Oujisama no propose(王子様のプロポーズ)". They largely changed graphic for North America.
Japanese "Origami" is one of the best time killing. If there is even the paper of the square, we can do it everywhere. It does not cost the money. In addition, it will be the best as a hobby of the children. Japanese children do Origami by the class of a kindergarten and the elementary school by all means. However, unfortunately we leave it as we become an adult. This Chrome application "Origami Player" is useful in such a case.
"Origami Player" is application teaching how to fold origami on 3DCG video. Of course it support English.
This is how to fold Crane, the basic of the origami.
My works
Made by Japanese gaily colored Yuzen paper.
In this way, Origami Player teaches how to folding more than 140 kinds. Virtual currencies are necessary for some, but we can get them by post a works photos and inviting a friend.
A Japanese is poor at English. Of course we notice it and spend vast time and money on English learning. However, we do not improve at all.
Therefore Japanese developer KAWASEMI Co., Ltd. released interesting iPhone application "Zombie business English".
It is the business English conversation learning application that expressed the businessman who must go to the company even if he becomes the zombie.
"Let's say at the time of meal after become a zombie"
"If the friends of the zombie increase, let's say"
"When expressing an early zombie-ized phenomenon to someone, let's say"
These are the very strange situation, but it is impressive. This is an aim of this application. We can utilize these in everyday life if we replace a word with the situation.
However, if I become a zombie, I'll not go to a company :)
Comiket(Comic Market) is world's largest self-published book fair. However, it becomes the festival of every expression activity now. Or it is a festival of world's largest Otaku. All of expression activity exists here. Comics, novel, criticism, illustration, photo, handmade product, game, music, cos- play etc...
However, some stupids criticize this grand event.(The reasons are young people protection and a problem of the copyrights) However, the most of the criticism are often irrelevant.
Anonymous did Tweet in this way in Twitter. "We fight thoroughly to keep the freedom of expression of all people". They did garbage picking in the Ariake big site of the place of Comiket. The activity is very cool.
This is a photo of the Star Festival of Asagaya, Tokyo. On the Star Festival of Asagaya, various big lanterns which residents made are displayed every year. They are often popular characters. Angry Birds joined them this year.
pixiv is UGC social network of the biggest in Japan. Many users contribute the illustrations which oneself drew and share them. Recently, pixiv started the support of languages except the Japanese.
They aim at the global expansion. And they did tie-up with an overseas artist for the first time today.
Why with SlipKnoT? This is an illustration contest held in commemoration of release of best album "Antennas To Hell" of SlipKnoT. they are very popular in Japan and pixiv had a lot of illustration works of SlipKnoT than before.
Kawaii! :)
The contest is held until August 31. Various original goods of SlipKnoT are presented to winners of the contest.
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