Japanese restaurants won the 1st and the 2nd on "The Asia's 50 Best Restaurant 2013"

Restaurant "Ryugin"

"NARISAWA", a French restaurant in Aoyama, Tokyo and "Ryugin(龍吟)", a traditional Japanese restaurant in Roppongi, Tokyo listed as the first and the second place on "The Asia's 50 Best Restaurant 2013" sponsored by Italian mineral water S.Pellegrino.
In addition, nine other restaurants in Tokyo and Osaka were ranked within the best fifty. Japanese restaurants in Sri Lanka, India and Singapore were also chosen on the list.


日本の料理店が１、２位　アジアのベストレストラン　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG2600B_W3A220C1CR0000/

The Asia's 50 Best Restaurant
http://www.worlds50best.asia/asias-50-best-restaurants.html


Yabusoba, the famous traditional soba restaurant was destroyed in a fire

"Silkworms Cafe" opened in Osaka

"ONE PIECE" Sanji's pirates recipes

"From Japan with Love (And Dashi)": 3 min video tour of Japan

Countries of the best local food - Hotels.com

Number of Japanese Facebook users in a steep decline

Cereja technology on February 7th announced that the estimated number of Facebook users in Japan has dropped 3.29 million or 23.8 percent since the last research result it revealed on January 7th. Attrition rate was the highest in Japan among Asian nations. In whole Asia, the number of users has dropped 11.36 million.

Estimated number of Facebook users in Asian Countries

1: India - 62.69M
2: Indonesia - 47.16M
3: Philippines - 30.12M
4: Thailand - 18.20M
5: Japan - 13.82M


Ｆａｃｅｂｏｏｋ国内推定利用者が329万人減、セレージャ調べ　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFK0803S_Y3A200C1000000/


Google.co.jp Yearly Search Word Ranking 2012

Yahoo! Japan Search Word Ranking 2012

Japanese college students: Social media they use

Ministry of Defense establishes "Cyberspace Defense Force" in 2013

SoftBank Wi-Fi is now available at LAWSON convenience stores

"Do you like Japan?" People in Asia answered

AUN CONSULTING, Inc. on November 6th revealed the results of survey measured people's degrees of Japanophile(how much they like Japan) in ten Asian nations. The survey was held on the internet collecting 1,000 valid responses(100 for each country) from people over 18.

LOVE - LIKE - DO NOT LIKE - HATE
From the top: Korean / Chinese / Taiwanese / Hong Konger / Thai / Malaysian / Singaporean / Indonesian / Vietnamese / Philipino

Which Japanese products or services do you like?
(average percentages of the 10 countries)

41-74% - Anime/Manga
25-71% - Food


意外? 中国では55%が日本を「大好き」「好き」と回答--アジア10カ国親日度　―マイナビニュース
http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2012/11/07/089/index.html