Archive for July, 2008


JapanSoc: A social bookmarking site focused on Japan

If you’re blogging for your business (as you should be!), you’re probably always looking for more traffic and attention. This can always be difficult with business blogging, since there has to be a layer of promotion put on top of the actual blogging itself. Of course, some posts on a business blog can be well […]

PingMag on visual arts in Hokkaido

In the wake of the G8 summit up in Hokkaido, the always excellent PingMag has run a survey of the visual arts scene up in the north of Japan.
Scroll down for a view of the impressive bags done by the Hokkaido Tourism Bureau…

Want to be the first to get an iPhone in Japan? Better hurry: line forming outside Softbank shop in Harajuku

According to this morning’s Nikkei, customers are actually standing in line outside of Softbank’s Harajuku location in Tokyo. Of course, they’re waiting for the new iPhone 3G to go on sale, which it will at 7am Friday.
In what looks like a clever marketing/PR move, the Harajuku location will be putting the iPhone on sale five […]