It's for Valentine's and I found it cute so thought I'd share. Don't read if you don't wanna :P I was checking up on the news as usual today and decided to head to News on Japan just to read up on the headlines of Asahi and Mainichi Shimbun. Then I came across this cute little tidbit:
Not only have Kit-Kat in Japan have been stuffed into cans to be sold in their gadzillion vending machines, they come up with something cute like this @_@ You can read more about it here. Even the shape is cute >_< It's called 'Lucky Little' because if you buy a pack, take all the chocolates out of the bag and count the white and pink coloured chocolates, head over to their website and key in the number of chocs, you get your fortune! Ah, the Land of Kawaii *pokes the Japanese for being creatively weird* X3
In other news, I know people are more widely aware of KDDI ever since Arashi's CMs, so here's their phone selections for Spring 08:
I just find it surprising that none of the other rival companies (like NTT Docomo) are matching KDDI's current marketing bid but I suppose Docomo doesn't really need to since they're the number 1 keitai service in Japan (even Arashi uses Docomo...well, Captain anyway as far as I can tell) :3
Lastly, referring to last Monday's News Zero Ichimen: (Head over to Tenjo-chan's
post if you're not sure what it was about)
Softbank is encouraging Microsoft's bid for Yahoo although Yahoo is seriously declining the offer, stating that it's too low and it doesn't match up to their value (it now stands at $47.8 bil). Japan is one of the few places in the world where Yahoo rules over Google in Internet traffic, so this attracts Microsoft who owns only a small portion of the traffic to get Yahoo under its wings. The reason why Softbank is supporting the bid is because the buy-over of Japan Vodafones in 2006. They need Microsoft to provide the software and Yahoo to provide the Internet speed and access.Since both NTT Docomo and KDDI are tied up with Google, this will be the opportunity to offer something different to the consumers.
Obviously, Google isn't keeping quiet about all this while it's going on, but they're just adding more drama to the situation. According to Ichimen's stats, Google (Guguru) owns 53% of the market, Yahoo (Ya-huu) 17.5% and Microsoft (Maikurosofto) a mere 7.1% of the overall user market. But I seriously think it should be the other way around: Yahoo should be the one to buy Microsoft. Even though it'll still end up in a merger, Yahoo would control Microsoft instead of the othey way round, seeing as Microsoft is the smaller party in terms of users.
Hai, ijou Neusu Zero pointo One deshita. Newscaster
Sho Aimi desu XD
I'm sure I've bored half of my neighbourhood with this post rofl