yahoo – THE LONG COUNTDOWN

Yahoo Comparison Exposes Quirky Japanese Culture

January 9, 2008January 13, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

On January 1st 2008, Yahoo! Japan officially unveiled their redesigned web portal. Despite Yahoo’s popularity among the Japanese (over 60% share of the search engine market), we’ve had to wait this long for them to come up with a flashy web 2.0 style homepage. Pushing slow adopters to increase their screen resolution With so many people in this country using Yahoo! I was quite surprised they dropped the old 800-pixel-wide […]

ECO – Japan’s New Buzzword?

January 4, 2008January 13, 2008 Nick RamsayJapan

There was a ridiculously long documentary on Japanese TV tonight about Al Gore’s new cause, global warming. I sat through the first three hours; watched ants eating houses, deer ravaging Hokkaido, watermelons growing in November, hybrid iguanas and evil konbini bentos (those CO2 polluting lunch boxes sold at convenience stores). While I much preferred Al’s DVD, An Inconvenient Truth, some of what they showed was quite convincing, and would no […]