Written by: Michael Keferl on August 27, 2007 at 3:58 pm | In NEWS | No Comments
Last week, we posted a photo and video of a wave pool here in Tokyo that got a bit of attention. Besides effectively multiplying our web traffic by a gazillion and requiring a new server purchase, we managed to have the top video on the Internet for several days, and stayed in the top five for over a week!
As of this posting, there are over 600k views on Yahoo Video (after being featured on the homepage) and about 1.2 MILLION on YouTube. Add this to the great coverage we’ve gotten from G4′s Attack of the Show, former Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon’s ABC videoblog, and uncountable references all over the Intertubes from BoingBoing to Neatorama, and we’ve got ourselves a virus.
This Tuesday at 9:00 pm EST, Tokyo Wave Pool will be featured on ABC’s new show i-CAUGHT, a primetime roundup of the best videos on the net. Being in Japan, we’ve never actually seen the show, so feel free to comment away as to whether it does the video justice or not.
Either way, thanks for watching, and take this as your warning to stay the heck out of Tokyo pools during the O-bon holiday week.
**UPDATE**
It seems CNN got in on the action as well, though we would have appreciated a heads-up:
Written by: Michael Keferl on August 9, 2007 at 4:15 pm | In NEWS | No Comments
This month’s JAPANMARKT, a newsletter published by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (GCCIJ), features CScout Japan Chief Sven Kilian discussing business style and cultural differences between Germany and Japan.
The newsletter is in German, but English information can be found here. Many thanks to the GCCIJ and interviewer Silke Pfersdorf
Written by: Michael Keferl on August 6, 2007 at 10:01 pm | In NEWS | No Comments
Public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), the German equivalent of the BBC or NHK, visited Tokyo several months ago to explore and shoot footage for their special on Asia called Abenteuer Asien (Asian Adventure). While here, they enlisted the support of CScout Japan Director Sven Kilian who took them to the latest technological hotspots to see the innovation and creation going on in the heart of it all.
Part one of Asian Adventure covers other Asian countries, but touches on Japan, focusing on the HAL robotic suit in the latter part of the video. Part two has the most focus on Japan, taking on technology and trends from the futuristic world of Honda’s Asimo to the Gundam networked simulator game found in the Sega G-Link game center in Shibuya. All of these segments are in German, of course, but for those with the language skills or just curiosity, you can link to the video streams below.
Many thanks to the great crew from ZDF for making this possible.
