1.31.2014

Japanese romance sim becomes the cosmetics

Japan's Cybird released a hand cream of their romance sim "Cinderella in midnight".


"Cinderella in midnight" is romance sim for women provided in Japanese mobile social game platforms, iOS and Android, and their newest mobile novel game. Player chooses the character whom they want to capture and can go on reading a story.


This hand cream is a tie-up product with e- commerce site Netprice. The price is 1,690yen(about 16.5USD).

http://www.netprice.co.jp/netprice/library/goods/672752/

It may be slightly more expensive than common hand cream. However, an special story is attached to this as a privilege. Players can read this story with using the hand cream. This is one of the tie-up examples of virtual goods and real product. However, the example with women's cosmetics and romance sim is rare.

LINE attracted donations for Philippines of $570,000 by charity sticker

Before, I wrote that LINE sold charity sticker for typhoon damage of Philippines.

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LINE sells a charity sticker for typhoon damage of Philippines

They remitted a donation to the Philippine Red Cross this month. The total sum was 58,773,190yen(about 570,000USD).


LINE sold donation sticker for 100yen(0.99USD) from November 15, 2013 - December 31, and contributed the total amount that deducted a settlement fee of AppStore and Google Play from sales. Ryo Morikawa of the LINE CEO met Philippines Ambassador Manuel López and told donation sticker to him.

Territorial dispute on Build with Chrome

Google and LEGO released interesting application "Build with Chrome" the other day. Japanese people and Korean people began interesting war there just after that.

This is Liancourt Rocks{Japanese name:竹島(Takeshima) Korean name:Dokdo(독도)} of Google Maps.








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Netizen does stupid territory war using Build with Chrome. Therefore, Liancourt Rocks became the LEGO Island in confusion. At present, there are more works of Korean people. Can the Japanese win this war?

1.29.2014

3D printer reproduced Japanese ancient magic mirror


Today, Takashi Murakami, the Director of Kyoto National Museum announced that when they restored an ancient bronze mirror with 3D printer, it was "magic mirror(魔鏡)".

This mirror is "Sankakubuchishinjuukyou(三角縁神獣鏡: triangular rimmed ancient mirror decorated with gods of animals)". This has the opinion with the mirror of Japanese ancient shaman queen Himiko. The mirror was important existence in ancient Japan and used by ceremony of the worship. However, the concrete role is still unknown.

The ancient mirror polished bronze and was made. The magic mirror is made by making the surface nonuniform by polish. When bright sunlight or other bright light reflects onto the mirror, the mirror seems to become transparent. If that light is reflected from the mirror towards a wall, the pattern on the back of the mirror is then projected onto the wall. Originally they were made in ancient China, but they spread in Japan. Because the Japanese Shinto is sun faith, there is the opinion to be related to it.


Various studies have been performed until now about Sankakubuchishinjuukyou, but they are very precious, and investigators cannot touch them casually. Therefore they made a copy with 3D printer. powder on Copper, tin and lead of the ratio same as Sankakubuchishinjuukyou were used as material. investigators found by that Sankakubuchishinjuukyou was magic mirror making a copy. This is the first time that ancient magic mirror was discovered in Japan. Movie is here.

When Bitcoin came to Japan, it became like this

Bitcoin is becoming the topic in Japan. There are a lot of blog and Web media which comments on Bitcoin, and even TV news reports it. They are few, but Tokyo has the bars which can pay in Bitcoin. Unfortunately the Japanese books about Bitcoin have not been yet published, but it will be a matter of time.
By the way, Japan's Finemotion Co,Ltd. performs the interesting Bitcoin support project. It is the Japanese proud skill "Personification".



She is Bitcoin-chan. When Bitcoin came to Japan, it became like this! :) They support Bitcoin by making free Manga, free illustrations, widget and goods. widget displays the realtime price of Bitcoin on your blog.

(C)Bitcoin-chan Project Bitcoin-chan Widget

You can watch a lot of her images in a project site.