Entries from April 2009

April 28, 2009

Japanese Outdoor Media Innovations

Japan is one of the leading countries in Media Innovations. This is easy to see on the amount of new materials and strategies developed to create media presented in advertising reports and marketing reviews.

A great place to see this innovations are at the Subway that holds a large variety of advertising formats. Such as the [...]

April 23, 2009

Mobile Art

I just this great video from Creative Review about some Mobile Art Movents and I would like to share them with you.

The Pocket Film Festival held in Japan is an event that explores the potential for audio-visual expression that lies hidden in a “practical high-tech toy,” and through various media, aims [...]

April 9, 2009

Media Groups

Sometimes people ask me why I want to study Media in Japan, and the answer is U-Japan. Dr. Katja Valaskivi reports about Media research institutions on the Mapping Media and Communication Research: Japan
Considering the vastness of the media industry in Japan, or even the amount of research done in private organizations, the volume of academic [...]

April 3, 2009

Do you know U-Japan

U-Japan (Ubiquitous Japan) is a strategy formulated in 2004 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) to continue the previous Japanese information society strategy (E-Japan).
The aim of the U-Japan strategy is to “make Japan the world’s most advanced IT nation”. The strategy reaches up into the year 2010 and aims mostly at developing [...]