Japan - News/General Discussion
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From todays Mainichi Shinbun:
Yahoo Japan, eBay say they're teaming up in online auction
TOKYO (AP) -- Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the U.S. and Japan.
The move marks a return to Japan of eBay, which pulled out of the market in 2002, never able to compete against the domination of Yahoo here.
Yahoo said by March, Japanese will be able to bid for items up for sale on eBay through the Yahoo auction site in Japan. By the middle of next year, similarly, a site will be set up that will allow Americans to buy Yahoo Japan auction items through the eBay site.
The deal will facilitate "cross-border trading" and invigorate the online auction market, Yahoo said in a statement. In online auctions, consumers put up items they want to sell and get offers through the Internet from prospective buyers.
"We are excited to partner with Yahoo Japan in providing Japanese users with localized site designed to enable them to shop on the eBay marketplace with ease and convenience," eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said in a statement.
EBay and Yahoo Japan -- collaborating for the first time -- also launched a separate Web site called Sekaimon, which means "global shopping" in Japanese.
The online Sekaimon site will translate items on listed on eBay into Japanese and help with payments, shipping and customs clearance for Japanese shoppers, both sides said. Revenue from Sekaimon will be shared, they said, while not disclosing the terms.
Under the collaboration, Americans using eBay will be able to more easily buy Japanese goods popular abroad, such as "manga" comic books, CDs, and products that feature Japanese animation characters and other mascots, it said.
[/list:u] Get ready to buy those dramas you couldn't find anywhere else :woot:
Yahoo Japan, eBay say they're teaming up in online auction
TOKYO (AP) -- Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the U.S. and Japan.
The move marks a return to Japan of eBay, which pulled out of the market in 2002, never able to compete against the domination of Yahoo here.
Yahoo said by March, Japanese will be able to bid for items up for sale on eBay through the Yahoo auction site in Japan. By the middle of next year, similarly, a site will be set up that will allow Americans to buy Yahoo Japan auction items through the eBay site.
The deal will facilitate "cross-border trading" and invigorate the online auction market, Yahoo said in a statement. In online auctions, consumers put up items they want to sell and get offers through the Internet from prospective buyers.
"We are excited to partner with Yahoo Japan in providing Japanese users with localized site designed to enable them to shop on the eBay marketplace with ease and convenience," eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said in a statement.
EBay and Yahoo Japan -- collaborating for the first time -- also launched a separate Web site called Sekaimon, which means "global shopping" in Japanese.
The online Sekaimon site will translate items on listed on eBay into Japanese and help with payments, shipping and customs clearance for Japanese shoppers, both sides said. Revenue from Sekaimon will be shared, they said, while not disclosing the terms.
Under the collaboration, Americans using eBay will be able to more easily buy Japanese goods popular abroad, such as "manga" comic books, CDs, and products that feature Japanese animation characters and other mascots, it said.
[/list:u] Get ready to buy those dramas you couldn't find anywhere else :woot:
gaijinmark wrote:From todays Mainichi Shinbun:
Yahoo Japan, eBay say they're teaming up in online auction
TOKYO (AP) -- Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the U.S. and Japan.
The move marks a return to Japan of eBay, which pulled out of the market in 2002, never able to compete against the domination of Yahoo here.
Yahoo said by March, Japanese will be able to bid for items up for sale on eBay through the Yahoo auction site in Japan. By the middle of next year, similarly, a site will be set up that will allow Americans to buy Yahoo Japan auction items through the eBay site.
The deal will facilitate "cross-border trading" and invigorate the online auction market, Yahoo said in a statement. In online auctions, consumers put up items they want to sell and get offers through the Internet from prospective buyers.
"We are excited to partner with Yahoo Japan in providing Japanese users with localized site designed to enable them to shop on the eBay marketplace with ease and convenience," eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said in a statement.
EBay and Yahoo Japan -- collaborating for the first time -- also launched a separate Web site called Sekaimon, which means "global shopping" in Japanese.
The online Sekaimon site will translate items on listed on eBay into Japanese and help with payments, shipping and customs clearance for Japanese shoppers, both sides said. Revenue from Sekaimon will be shared, they said, while not disclosing the terms.
Under the collaboration, Americans using eBay will be able to more easily buy Japanese goods popular abroad, such as "manga" comic books, CDs, and products that feature Japanese animation characters and other mascots, it said.
[/list:u] Get ready to buy those dramas you couldn't find anywhere else :woot:
Yatta!
Heard that on the news last night... Hopefully the international shipping rates won't be too outrageous... :fingerscrossed: :sweat:
gaijinmark wrote:
Under the collaboration, Americans using eBay will be able to more easily buy Japanese goods popular abroad, such as "manga" comic books, CDs, and products that feature Japanese animation characters and other mascots, it said.
[/list:u] Get ready to buy those dramas you couldn't find anywhere else :woot:
Nice :applaud: ! Hope this will be open to Euros as well.
If Triky were here, he would have posted this, From FujiTV News:[/list:u]Police arrested a 26-year-old assistant program director for TV Asahi on suspicion of secretly filming up the skirt of a woman on an escalator at a Tokyo subway station.
gaijinmark wrote:If Triky were here, he would have posted this, From FujiTV News:[/list:u]Police arrested a 26-year-old assistant program director for TV Asahi on suspicion of secretly filming up the skirt of a woman on an escalator at a Tokyo subway station.
That gives "News at 11" or "Late Breaking News" a whole new meaning... :beaten: :hehe:
The shipping rates aren't really so bad. I can't complain about what Amazon Japan charges currently. The real killer is customs. Damn state always wanting my money! *hisses*
I watched on TV last night, "21-Up: Japan.
This is where they interview a bunch of kids at age 7, then go back every 7 years and see what has changed in their life. It was fascinating! In this one (filmed last year) the interviewees are all 21.
This is where they interview a bunch of kids at age 7, then go back every 7 years and see what has changed in their life. It was fascinating! In this one (filmed last year) the interviewees are all 21.
Hello Kitty targets young men[/list:u] By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer
Fri Dec 28, 7:05 AM ET
TOKYO - Hello Kitty is no sexist.
The cute cuddly white cat from Japan's Sanrio Co., usually seen on toys and jewelry for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday.
"We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion," he said.
The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.
For example, a picture of the cat on a $36 black T-shirt has the words, "hello kitty," instead of the usual dots for the eyes and nose.
Hello Kitty is one of mascot-obsessed Japan's biggest "character" hits, decorating everything from a humble eraser to a $48,000 diamond necklace.
The planned products mark the first time Sanrio is developing Hello Kitty items especially for males, Tohmatsu said.
But Sanrio had tried a "limited edition" collaboration in men's clothing with designers in Tokyo's chic Harajuku section earlier this year, and they proved popular, he said.
"Young men these days grew up with character goods," said Tohmatsu. "That generation feels no embarrassment about wearing Hello Kitty."
Think I'll pass on this one :shakehead: [/list:u]
Fri Dec 28, 7:05 AM ET
TOKYO - Hello Kitty is no sexist.
The cute cuddly white cat from Japan's Sanrio Co., usually seen on toys and jewelry for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday.
"We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion," he said.
The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.
For example, a picture of the cat on a $36 black T-shirt has the words, "hello kitty," instead of the usual dots for the eyes and nose.
Hello Kitty is one of mascot-obsessed Japan's biggest "character" hits, decorating everything from a humble eraser to a $48,000 diamond necklace.
The planned products mark the first time Sanrio is developing Hello Kitty items especially for males, Tohmatsu said.
But Sanrio had tried a "limited edition" collaboration in men's clothing with designers in Tokyo's chic Harajuku section earlier this year, and they proved popular, he said.
"Young men these days grew up with character goods," said Tohmatsu. "That generation feels no embarrassment about wearing Hello Kitty."
Think I'll pass on this one :shakehead: [/list:u]
gaijinmark wrote:Hello Kitty targets young men
Thankfully, we're not in that target group. :sweat:
16-year-boy held after extravagant spree at Saitama bar
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 14:03 EST
SAITAMA — Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of going on an extravagant drinking spree earlier this week at a bar in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, without having a penny, police officials said Saturday.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld as he is a minor, was held by officers after the bar's staff found him unable to pay about 370,000 yen for two bottles of expensive champagne as well as 60 glasses of whiskey and cocktails. He also asked for four to five hostesses to attend to him.
The unemployed boy appeared at the bar alone at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and the staff called police as he told them at around 4 a.m. Thursday that he had no money.
The suspect was quoted by police as saying that he wanted to drink and went on to a spree just to see how things would turn out.
The staff said they did not think he was a minor as he looked older than his age as he spoke with the bar hostesses and placed orders for alcohol, according to police.
Drinking alcohol is banned for minors under 20 in Japan.
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 14:03 EST
SAITAMA — Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of going on an extravagant drinking spree earlier this week at a bar in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, without having a penny, police officials said Saturday.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld as he is a minor, was held by officers after the bar's staff found him unable to pay about 370,000 yen for two bottles of expensive champagne as well as 60 glasses of whiskey and cocktails. He also asked for four to five hostesses to attend to him.
The unemployed boy appeared at the bar alone at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and the staff called police as he told them at around 4 a.m. Thursday that he had no money.
The suspect was quoted by police as saying that he wanted to drink and went on to a spree just to see how things would turn out.
The staff said they did not think he was a minor as he looked older than his age as he spoke with the bar hostesses and placed orders for alcohol, according to police.
Drinking alcohol is banned for minors under 20 in Japan.
Tu_triky wrote:16-year-boy held after extravagant spree at Saitama bar
Whoa, 370,000 yen?
Kid knows his liquor. :beaten: :hehe:
And he can hold it too, apparently (two bottles of champagne AND 60 glasses of whiskey/cocktails)... :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:
bmwracer wrote:
Whoa, 370,000 yen?
Kid knows his liquor. :beaten: :hehe:
And he can hold it too, apparently (two bottles of champagne AND 60 glasses of whiskey/cocktails)... :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:
:hehe:
I know! That is friggin' crazy. He went on a tear for sure!
Tu_triky wrote: :hehe:
I know! That is friggin' crazy. He went on a tear for sure!
That's a crapload of alcohol... You'd think he would've exceeded the toxicity level way before downing 60 drinks. :sweat:
bmwracer wrote:
That's a crapload of alcohol... You'd think he would've exceeded the toxicity level way before downing 60 drinks. :sweat:
His young liver hasn't been hit by years of toxicity yet....fresh meat.... :hehe:
Tu_triky wrote:His young liver hasn't been hit by years of toxicity yet....fresh meat.... :hehe:
Apparently. :sweat:
bmwracer wrote:
Apparently. :sweat:
at leaast he got to kick it with some cabaret girls before he got arrested....and he drank gallons of liquor. :hehe:
Tu_triky wrote:The suspect, whose name is being withheld as he is a minor, was held by officers after the bar's staff found him unable to pay about 370,000 yen for two bottles of expensive champagne as well as 60 glasses of whiskey and cocktails. He also asked for four to five hostesses to attend to him.
:rofl: I am repulsed yet somewhat impressed, 60 glasses :hehe:
Tu_triky wrote:
Drinking alcohol is banned for minors under 20 in Japan.
But they sell beer (often big size bottles) in a lot of distributors. :doh:
I am not judging though, itLs the same in my country and legal drinking age is 16. :D
EstherM wrote:legal drinking age is 16. :D
Dang. :sweat:
Tu_triky wrote:16-year-boy held after extravagant spree at Saitama bar
Drinking alcohol is banned for minors under 20 in Japan.
Wah, I didn't know that!
And about the 60 glasses, I'm pretty sure he shared with a bunch of people. He woulda gotten alcohol poisoning otherwise.
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