Let's enjoy a handsome hot spring with iPhone

"Personification" is the Japanese proud skill. The Japanese personifies every thing. The Japanese personifies every thing and give them character.

Gigno System Japan released the iOS application that personified a hot spring to a handsome man.

http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/id549355834?mt=8
This is the application that personified Misasa Onsen in Tottori, Japan.

Originally they released the drama CDs which personified Japanese famous hot springs.

あなたがお風呂で のぼせるCD ~温泉擬人化コレクション~ 第1弾「草津編」


あなたがお風呂で のぼせるCD ~温泉擬人化コレクション~ 第2弾「登別編」

Official site[J]
http://em2.me/

This iOS application evolved from these drama CDs more. This has a full voice function, and a popular voice actor is in charge of a voice. The user can communicate in characters , manage the schedule and use the alarm function. When a user communicates with him a lot and makes friends, his lines and expression change.

However, unfortunately we cannot use this application while entering the hot spring. Because iPhone is broken.

Let's walk San Francisco with a character of Evangelion

On August 25 and 26th, "J POP Summit Festival 2012" is held in San Francisco. Japanese startup KAYAC released interesting sightseeing application for iOS "EvaNavi SF" to it.

This is the application that character Mari of Japanese Anime Neon Genesis Evangelion guides San Francisco by a voice.

When you start application and walk in the San Francisco, application detects a location infomation with GPS. And Mari guides about spots in English. Spots enrolled in application are about 60 places. J-POP culture institution "NEW PEOPLE", hotel "Hotel Tomo" which designed Japanese Anime, "Cartoon Art Museum", sushi restaurant "Blowfish Sushi to Die For" are included in them.

Social game anime of GREE

Crossmedia of the social game is already common in Japan. Various goods about the social game are sold in Japan, and comics are published, and an anime cartoon is broadcasted.

Of course GREE is eager in them. GREE broadcasts an anime of their social game "Tanken Driland" now.

http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/Driland/

We can download Tanken Driland in US App Store. It is a card social game of the Japanese style.

 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/driland/id526595488?mt=8

The outline of the anime is a thing along the games, but more detailed settings are included. Surprisingly the episodes are uploaded free in Youtube. Of course they are official. This is very rare in Japan. Unfortunately it is only a Japanese sound, but you may enjoy an atmosphere.



Tanken Driland official Youtube Channel

The Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA

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".

http://peacelearning.jp/

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.

See also:
http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/49875/

The Japanese Finnish embassy personified their Twitter account

The Twitter account of the Finnish embassy(@FinEmbToky) is popular in Japan.

See also:
Twitter account of the Finnish embassy is popular in Japan

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.

via http://www.finland.or.jp/Public/default.aspx?contentid=255151&nodeid=41206&culture=ja-JP