Ustream Asia broadcasts the Grand Sumo Tournament

Today, Ustream Asia announced that they broadcasted all programs of Grand Sumo Tournament in January12-26. This is the first trial during a history of the Japan Sumo Association.

However, some money is necessary that we watch these. The ticket cord is sold on official Ustream channel of Japan Sumo Association. Seasonal ticket is 120USD and daily ticket is 10USD(last day ticket is 15USD). All games and ceremony are broadcasted every day, and we can watch those archives until March 8.

Not only Sumo is sports, but also is traditional culture and is a ceremony of the Shinto. Official Ustream channel of Japan Sumo Association shows an English guidebook of the sumo.

The promoter of world's largest Otaku fair Comiket holds "Otaku summit" in 2015

Comiket(Comic Market) is the world's largest Otaku fair, and pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Otaku. You will understand if you watch this photo.

Usually, it held in the summer and winter at the Tokyo big sight, but the promoter of Comiket announced that they held "Otaku summit" at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on March 28 and 29, 2015.

http://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/CS6/CS6announcementENG.html

Every five years Comic Market holds a Comiket Special, and this year's theme will be an "Otaku Summit." Japanese circles, general attendees, staff and corporate participants that are a regular feature at Comic Market will constitute the "Japanese delegates," who will be joined by overseas participants who are invited to participate in this "Global Comiket."

Originally they held Comiket Special every five years. They are held for an idea unlike normal Comiket. They invite creators, performers, event promoters and Otakus from the foreign countries this time. Events of Japan are poor at foreign language support. However, the support except Japanese is carried out at the Otaku summit.

I want to exhibit in this. However, the exhibition application battle will become the fierce battle.

Saga University made artery with 3D printer

Tissue engineering is the topic that is the hottest in a Japanese medical society. In addition, the 3D printer is introduced into it, too. Today, Saga University and Cyfuse of the startup announced that they made artery with 3D printer.

This is the first time in Japan that blood vessel was made with 3D printer. Skin of a patient was used as materials. This 3D printer production artery is used in the transplant of artificial dialysis and the cardiac coronary bypass operation. They have already finished patent application in several countries and acquire a patent in Japan, United States, China and Singapore. This is still an experiment stage, but they aim at being in use five years later.

Miraculous collaboration: Nameko and Tamagocchi sell tie-up game

This is miraculous collaboration for a pet upbringing game. Tamagocchi is a pioneer of the pet game, and new models are still released. Characters of Tamagocchi become anime and various goods, and it is very popular among young girls. Bandai combines the pioneer of the pet game with current popular character. This is "Namekocchi".

Current Tamagocchi becomes the cartridge system. When the girls attach cartridge parts called "Tama Deco Pierce" to the main body of Tamagocchi, they can enjoy various attached contents. Bandai releases Nameko version of Tama Deco Pierce in January, 2014.

Players can bring up characters of Tamagocchi of the Nameko version, pull a sacred lot and play a mini-games by using this. Nameko version of Tama Deco Pierce is 1,260yen(about 12USD).

Glu Mobile tied up with Japanese mobile game company Colopl

Today, Colopl, one of the most successful Japanese mobile game company announced that they tied up with Glu Mobile. They release each other's mobile games in Japan and North America.

Colopl is still low in the popularity in foreign countries, but have been already known as one of the main mobile game companies in Japan. Originally they were known as a company of geolocation sosial game for futurephone "Colony Life(コロニーな生活)". It was still a popular game, but they started development of the game apps for smartphones in September, 2011. As a result, this strategy succeeded. Each their apps are high quality, and reputation is good. Particularly, quiz RPG "The World of Mystic Wiz" got the biggest success.

This has already broken through 15 million downloading only in Japan and gets 1 million downloading newly every two weeks. Furthermore, not only the Japanese version but also the Korean version and English version were released, and won game of the Year 2013 in Google Play Best of 2013. Now, the Japanese TV channels broadcast CM of this many times.


Colopl released some of their games by themself in foreign countries until now. However, they quicken the speed from now on in cooperation with Glu Mobile. On the other hand, they localize games of Glu Mobile for Japanese users and release them. This business tie-up is publishing-exchange of the games in the North America and Japan.