News Feb. 1, 2011
One tweet brought the free SMS to Egypt
Earlier today, Softbank announced the free international SMS service to Egypt and the free SMS roaming service for Softbank users in Egypt. This free service was, again, requested by a Japanese researcher living in Cairo via a university researcher in Osaka, Japan Read more »
News Jan. 30, 2011
YokosoNews Weekly - Tax Time
Live on Sun, Jan 30, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. YokosoNews has to turn in the company's tax return by the following day. After the regular weekly news, we'll just continue working for the tax preparation. So it will be very BORING show. Read more »
News Jan. 22, 2011
One tweet shook the Tokyo Metropolitan Gov't and subway
On Thursday, January 20th, 2011, the president of Japanese mobile phone company and vice-governor of Tokyo agreed to install cell phone antenna. The meeting sounded nothing special unless this meeting originated from one tweet by a ordinary man 6 day before. Read more »
News Jan. 16, 2011
YokosoNews Weekly - The Editorial Meeting of 2011
Live on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. In this week, we will talk about what you want us to cover for 2011. YokosoNews is social media that you can participate. Please join us to build YokosoNews together! Read more »
News Jan. 9, 2011
Comiket Complete Guide - YokosoNews Weekly
Live on Jan 9, 2011 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. The first YNW in 2011 will talk about Comic Market 79 (Comiket). The world's largest artist/otaku/manga/hobbist exhibit. We will welcome a Japanese otaku veteran who has been to Comiket 20 times to talk about what to prepare for Comiket. Read more »
News Dec. 26, 2010
YokosoNews Weekly - The End of the Beginning
Live on Dec 26, 2010 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. This will be the last show in 2010. YokosoNews launched last April 2010. It's been 9 months journey. We'll wrap up the year 2010, and also the coverage of YokosoNews in 2010. Read more »
News Dec. 21, 2010
Total lunar eclipse is coming at this evening in Japan
Total lunar eclipse is coming at 4:40pm this evening in Japan. If you are in the northern part of Japan, you have the higher chance to catch the lunar eclipse. If clear sky, the total eclipse can be seen throughout Japan as the moon rises from east sky. Read more »
News Dec. 19, 2010
YokosoNews Weekly - AniMaid Cafe
Live on Dec 19, 2010 (JST) at 4pm. The weekly live streaming show to talk about what happened in Japan. In this week, we will welcome Kchan and Venus from AniMaidCafe, a Akihabara-style maid society group from Southern California, USA. Katz will be asking questions to Kchan and Venus. And you can also ask any questions during the live streaming. Read more »
News Dec. 19, 2010
A Gemini shooting star caught on camera
At the early Wednesday morning of December 15, 2010, Gemini Meteor Shower was coming its peak. Decided to setup the camera and live stream at the last min, we succeeded catching one shooting star on camera live from Japan. Yay.! Read more »
News Dec. 12, 2010
YokosoNews Weekly - SYS
The weekly live streaming show to talk about what's happening in Japan. In this week, we will visit Indonesia, welcome SYS, an illustrator and manga artist who was the only nominee from Indonesian of International Manga Awards in 2007 Read more »