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- Guaranteed lifetime employment is still alive in Japan
This employment system is still alive in Japan, I just read on a blog written by a Japanese.
“Guaranteed lifetime employment” has been the most popular employment system in Japan. Employees are guaranteed employment till they get 60. If you join a company at the age of 22, you can work there for 38 years if [...]
- Cost of going to #BarcampKanazawa – transportation
As I have never been to Kanazawa, Japan, and also Kanazawa is one of the places where I want to visit, thought of going to #BarcampKanazawa.
I posted about being Barcamp Nomads in South East Asia, but Barcamp trip to Japan would be totally different..
Just checking the cost and time. The time doesn’t include the transit [...]
- Twitter Japan is not going to charge you…
As I wrote last week, there were news that Twitter Japan is going to start “premium” services, but just after the news came out, twitter JP said like this on their blog.
dtsv.dtse_post_4626_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/11/twitter-japan-is-not-going-to-charge-you/’;
dtsv.dtse_post_4626_title = ‘Twitter Japan is not going to charge you…’;
- Twitter contents business will be launch in 2010…. hm…
This business plan is just announced in Japan, by a company called GD MOBILE. This article says GD MOBILE is the company operate Twitter JP, but I thought Japanese version of Twitter was run by Digital Garage?
They have been developing their platform for it, they’ll launch their service on January 2010.dtsv.dtse_post_4617_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/11/twitter-contents-business-will-be-launch-in-2010-hm/’;
dtsv.dtse_post_4617_title = ‘Twitter [...]
- ハイテクなはずの日本ではIT技術者が足りなくなってるらしい
ASEAN諸国で言えばシンガポールなんてまさにそんな感じで、ビジネスモデルを考える、とか、何とかコンサルタントとか、そういうひとはごっそりいるの に、実際手を動かしてコードを書く人が少ない。だからデベロッパですといってビ [...]
- Barcamp KANAZAWA – IT and Japanese culture
Just found this information, #Barcamp KANAZAWA is happening on 20 Feb, 2010 in KANAZAWA, JAPAN.
I’ve added to the Event calendar .
I’ve never been there, i’d love to go… is there any flights Bangkok to Kanazawa?
Other events are also on the calender.dtsv.dtse_post_4535_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/11/barcamp-kanazawa-it-and-japanese-culture/’;
dtsv.dtse_post_4535_title = ‘Barcamp KANAZAWA – IT and Japanese culture’;
- Rules of Japanese style wedding party – part 1
note : “wedding party” here means typical “Hiro-en” party which held after actual wedding at church, temple or shrine.
1. Only invited guests can attend the party
It means if you are invited you can join, but you can’t bring your partner with you. There are tables with name tags, these are for invited guests only, no [...]
- Trip to Japan, first time in last 2 years.
It’s been 2 years since I went back to Japan last time. It was the first time after MOZO started.
Meetings everyday for a week in Japan, but it was kind of interesting for me to visit there. There are many things I want to note, this is an entry to keep note for my self.dtsv.dtse_post_4341_permalink = [...]
- Sense it
Have you ever felt that Japanese people don’t say much about what they want or Japanese are like aliens you can’t know what they are thinking?
It used to be a kind of beauty of Japanese unique culture. Sensing each other is kind of interesting way of communication, and I kind of like it. But now [...]
- Departure – what is “normal”?
The Japanese movie called “Departure” was on cinema in Bangkok. I expected the movie must be very quiet and beautiful.
Yes, it was, but maybe 70% of my expectation.dtsv.dtse_post_2052_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/08/departure-what-is-normal/’;
dtsv.dtse_post_2052_title = ‘Departure – what is “normal”?’;
- 日本の未来は明るいわ
って、私の母が言ってました。
わが母春子、私が今までの人生でであった人の中でかなりのトップクラスにランクインする面白い人なんですが、母親としてはイマイチです。dtsv.dtse_post_ [...]
- 何で英語でtweetするの？
同じネタ引っ張りすぎですが、これが最近頭の中にあることなのでアウトプット。「何で日本人なのに英語がしゃべれるの？」に対するいろんな反応をもらって、逆に、何で非英語ネイティブもみんな英語でつぶやくんだろう？ と聞いてみまし [...]
- docomo doesn’t let user to change system language to English…orz
Last night, one of my friend asked me how to change the system language of his phone. He got ntt docomo version of TG01, which is T-01A in Japan.
The OS is Windows mobile 6.1 Japanese version. I changed region setting but the system language was still Japanese. I read manual but no answer, so I [...]
- Why can you speak English? – A question I’ve been asked many times
This is the question I’ve been asked all the time. Somehow, people think I’m Thai (or if I’m in SG or KL, people think I’m chinese though), avaraged it takes about 5 min for Thai people to find out I’m not a Thai.
When thai people find out that I am a Japanese, many of them [...]
- 「ふーん」て思う
こないだ#Google Wave Hackathonのあとビールのみつつ@koshianさんと、「タイに来たら変人って言われなくなった」ていう話をしたんだけれど、どうやらその後こんなエントリー（日本人の同質性はもっと叩か [...]
- 何で日本人なのに英語がしゃべれるの？
最初このエントリーは英語で書こうと思ったけれど、気が変わったので日本語で書きます。
これ、よく人に聞かれる質問です。特に、私が日本人だって最初に気づいていなかった人とか（たいてい日本人だって思われない）、私が日本人だとわ [...]
- “Galapagos” Japan
Sometimes people call Japan as “Galapagos”, because the technology in Japan is away ahead BUT very different from the rest of the world, especially mobile technology.
Since I moved out Japan, I have found some more things which is not about technology but make me think Japan is really “Galabagos”.
As a company we need receipt. when [...]
- Crowd, social and being normal
Just found an article related to my previous post “I have only one brain, power of being social”.
There is an old saying that two heads are better than one. This saying received empirical support in social psychology in the 1920s, when a series of studies showed that groups were more accurate than their individual members. [...]
- “SUIBOKU” handwritting + 3D
SUIBOKU SPACE ～然（ZEN）～ from TEAMLAB on Vimeo.
This is made by TEAMLAB, love this :)dtsv.dtse_post_646_permalink = ‘http://31o5.com/2009/02/suiboku-handwritting-3d/’;
dtsv.dtse_post_646_title = ‘“SUIBOKU” handwritting + 3D’;
- バンコクツイッターオフ#twittbkk2へ参加してきました
31o5.comにはじめてあげる日本語のポストです。こっちにも日本語で書こうと思った経緯はこちら参照。
昨日、2009年2月7日、シーロムのBug & Beeというカフェで開催されたバンコクツイッターオフに参加し [...]
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