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

"HMV BEST OF 2012" Anime DVD/BD sales rankings

HMV on November 24th announced "HMV ON LINE YEARLY RANKINGS BEST OF 2012" accumulated the number of orders received on its online store from January 1st and November 11th.
Here are the section of anime DVDs/Blu-ray Discs.

Yahoo! Japan Search Word Ranking 2012

Yahoo! Japan on November 26th announced "2012 Search Word Ranking" listing the most searched words in this year between January 1st and October 31st.

Japanese college students: Social media they use

Twitter

Gaba, English school conducted internet research on 1,000 Japanese under graduate and graduate college students, 500 who have experienced job hunting and the rest never about their SNS use.


SNS currently using

Twitter - 58.7%
mixi - 56.5%
LINE - 43.9%
Facebook - 42.5%
Mobage - 40.6%
GREE - 37.1%
Google+ - 11.4%
Instagram - 3.1%
LinkedIn - 0.85
Flickr - 0.5%


SNS becoming popular now

Facebook - 49.4%
LINE - 44.7%
Twitter - 38.2%
Google+ - 12.5%
mixi - 8.3%
GREE - 5.5%
Mobage - 5.3%
Instagram - 4.4%
Flickr - 3.0%
Pinterest - 1.9%


SNS used for job hunting

Facebook - 25.4%
Twitter - 21.6%
mixi - 8.6%
Google+ - 4.2%
LINE - 4.6%
GREE - 1.6%
Mobage - 1.2%
Instagram - 0.4%
Flickr - 0.4%
Pinterest - 0.2%


就職に役立つSNS、1位「Facebook」　―リセマム
http://resemom.jp/article/2012/10/02/10133.html

Ministry of Defense establishes "Cyberspace Defense Force" in 2013

Japanese Ministry of Defense in its rough estimate of their budget of 2013 requests 21.2 billion yen($270.8M) for "Cyberspace Defense Force".
It will be specialized for fighting against the cyber attack to the Self-Defense Forces and the Ministry of Defense.
National Police Agency has earlier announced that it will establish teams at several prefectures' offices in 2013 to deal with cyber attack to government bodies and private businesses.


防衛省が「サイバー空間防衛隊」創設などに212億円を要求　―ITpro
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20120907/421482/?top_tl1

SoftBank Wi-Fi is now available at LAWSON convenience stores

SoftBank Wi-Fi Spot at LAWSON

SOFTBANK MOBILE in August 24th announced that its wireless LAN service "SoftBank Wi-Fi Spot" will be available at every LAWSON convenience store.
The access points are already installed at 8,343 LAWSON stores(August22nd) among approximately 10,000.

Available SSID
1) 0001softbank - for SoftBank 3G network users with no encryption
2) 0002softbank - for SoftBank 3G network users with WPA2 encryption
3) SWS1day - for non SoftBank users, SoftBank Wi-Fi Spot (EX) 490 yen/day


-FACTS-
SoftBank Mobile is one of the three largest mobile phone carriers in Japan(1:NTT DOCOMO/2:au by KDDI/3:SoftBank). It holds the first place for a long time in the number of new contracts, though it is the third place in the total number of contracts.


全国のローソンで「ソフトバンクＷｉ－Ｆｉスポット」が利用可能に　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFK23034_T20C12A8000000/

Hulu to stream "Pokemon" series

Hulu Japan's "Pokemon" lineups

Hulu Japan streams "Pokemon" series from August 1st.
Currently, "Pokemon(1997)" and "Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes!(2010)" are available on line. In addition, "Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! Season 2" which is now on TV will be available soon for people who missed the show.


「Hulu」にポケモンが登場　―ITmedia +D LifeStyle
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/lifestyle/articles/1208/01/news136.html