Tennōji-ku, Osaka utilizes Ingress for security activity

Tennōji (天王寺区), the one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan announced that they utilized Niantic's mobile game Ingress for security activity. They assume Ingress agents vigilantes and have them watch children in a local park.

Agents which want to participate in this activity register accounts with the ward office as security agents. If they notice accidents, they must inform a ward office or the police station of them. The ward office delivers special missions to them every three months, and privileges are presented to the agents which achieved excellent results. The Ingress agents of residence, working, and the attendance at schools in Osaka-shi 16 years or older can participate in this. The ward office offers free mobile batteries and original design bandanas.

Family Crest of Yukimura Sanada(真田 幸村: actual name is Nobushige Sanada 真田 信繁), the Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period is garnished on bandanas. Because this ward has the temple where Yukimura Sanada died.

Armaments of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are personified at last. Of course "cute girls"

I wrote many articles about web browser game Kan Colle which personified battleships of Imperial Japanese Navy to cute girls until now.

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Then how about the armaments of current Japan Self-Defense Forces? After all they cannot escape from personification also. Zoo, the Japanese application developer announced that they released PC/Mobile game Rick-G-Earth(りっく☆じあ～す) that personified armaments of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to cute girls on February 24, 2016.

This is a strategic simulation game. Players collect various armaments, organize them and fight against enemies. However, all armaments are personified to cute girls.

She is the 4th generation main battle tank The Type 10.

She is the attack helicopter AH-64D.

She is the attack helicopter AH-64DAH-1S.

In addition, not only active armaments but also old armaments used before appear.

She is the light anti-tank vehicle Type 60 Self-propelled 106 mm Recoilless Gun.

She is the Light Tank M24.

Furthermore, even camps are personified, too.

She is Camp Ichigaya(市ヶ谷). She is office-style. Because Ichigaya is one of the business areas of Tokyo.

She is Camp Kisarazu(木更津). She wears a flight suit. Because Kisarazu has air field.

If you remember her, you are certainly Otaku. She was nose art of attack helicopters.

All their specifications are the same as real armaments, and players can modify them.

The map is a board game type using Hex. Players arrange units on the map, move and fight against enemies. As for the map, each area of Japan becomes the basis. Tanks are advantageous in city areas and plain areas, but they are disadvantageous in mountainous areas.

This is released in Yahoo!Mobage(for PC) and Rakuten Apps Market(for Android). The release of iOS apps ver. is after those.

Messaging apps LINE entered live streaming

Messaging application LINE released live streaming service LINE LIVE, and it passed 5 million view in a day after it was released.

LINE LIVE is a platform streaming original programs of celebrities, companies and performers live. LINE users can watch them from official accounts in LINE, native apps of LINE LIVE, and Web browsers. They released it on December 10, and streaming a program of popular girls band AKB48. Then, it passed 500,000 view in the seventh minute.

Now, they admit program broadcast only to some celebrity users, but enable the program broadcast of general users in the future.

Angry Birds found a license agent in Japan at last

Sony Creative Products, the subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and dealt with the license business of characters became the license agent of Angry Birds in Japan.

Unfortunately Angry Birds did not yet get popularity in Japan and did not have Japan's original license agent so far. When overseas companies conduct a business in Japan, the local partner is essential. In particular, in the character business and the game business, Japan has many rivals for them.

Sony Creative Products performs brand Building of Angry Birds such as marketing, promotion, the holding of events, the inflection of media, goods development and the sale from January, 2016. In addition, they show The Angry Birds Movie in Japan in the autumn of 2016. This is serious decision, too. In Japan, even the movies which made a hit abroad are not often shown. As for such the movies, only DVD is released quietly( and such the examples are called "DVD through" by Japanese movie fans). What does this mean? Sony Creative Products must raise recognition of Angry Birds in Japan by next autumn.

The remote controllers of many consumer electronics are already unnecessary

If you have this, you do not say "where is remote controller of TV?" anymore. The remote controllers of consumer electronics often obstacle in rooms.

This is a gadget allowing you to operate consumer electronics using infrared remote controllers with a smartphone. This memorizes infrared remote controllers' signals of consumer electronics of various brands and kinds, converts them into infrared rays from Wi-Fi and lets them link mobile application. Then users can operate consumer electronics such as TV, an audio system, and the air-conditioner with one smartphone. In addition, users can check on/off of the switches from a smartphone immediately because this has sensors sensing the temperature, the humidity and the illumination of the room. If there is even Wi-Fi, this supports most consumer electronics.

via http://www.ratocsystems.com/products/subpage/wfirex1.html