WhatJapanThinks said...

WhatJapanThinks at 10:34 PM JST - 29th March

feffrey - good points. Reading what yongfook has written here and on his blog it appears very much as he designed both the back end and the front end, and while I can see his talents in the software side, the usability is awful, as there was no input from…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 10:34 PM JST - 29th March
WhatJapanThinks at 10:28 PM JST - 29th March

Cups? That is the most annoying measure for me! Why 50 grams of butter, a nice metric figure I can understand, but 1.33333333333 cups of ricotta cheese? How do you get cheese into a cup and then back out again? A third of a cup?

I can just about cope…

Posted in Celebrity Australian chef introduces Japan to the pleasure of breakfast at 10:28 PM JST - 29th March
WhatJapanThinks at 11:13 AM JST - 28th March

And I forgot:

"1 Comments"

Come on, that's just basic sloppiness. You released this new design without proper (or indeed any, as far as I can see) user testing, and as perhaps the leading Japanese news site in English, I would expect more of you.

I also notice that the…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 11:13 AM JST - 28th March
WhatJapanThinks at 10:19 AM JST - 28th March

What is 830 tons (tonnes?) of CO2? I can't grasp what exactly that number represents; it's even more vague than the usual "enough CO2 to fill 285.38 Tokyo Domes" that we usually get.

Oh, and Yamada et al have horrendous hours; 10 am to 8 pm is one shift, you…

Posted in Yamada Denki won't open on New Year's Day at 10:19 AM JST - 28th March
WhatJapanThinks at 07:51 AM JST - 28th March

His hair looks remarkably well-kempt considering the wind speed is 8 mph. I can see the visibility is good, too.

Considering the photo was taken by a decent digital SLR (NIKON D70s), it's pretty poor. Too much reflection off the guitar and the skin tones are washed out.

Posted in Samurai guitar player at 07:51 AM JST - 28th March
WhatJapanThinks at 07:44 AM JST - 28th March

eastokyo - is windspeed the new knees?

Agree with all about the HIS ad - an obasan in a kimono and someone that looks more like the staff at an izakaya than a samurai/ninja/whatever.

Looking at the headlines down below, there has been almost zero comments overnight.

I'd love to…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 07:44 AM JST - 28th March
WhatJapanThinks at 01:18 PM JST - 27th March

I remember someone calculating that at the current rate, by 2050 every female in Japan will be ex-MoMusu.

Isn't this going to the US act standard lying low behaviour whenever you (or in this case your brother) do something naughty like get arrested, your girlfriend preggers, etc?

Posted in Pop idol Maki Goto to resume activities after brother's arrest at 01:18 PM JST - 27th March
WhatJapanThinks at 09:20 AM JST - 27th March

Surely some mistake in the last sentence:

"Another objective is to make sure that children are accustomed to being left to their own devices by their parents, which is expected to be increasingly common in day-to-day life in Japan."

There, that looks better now!

Posted in Retailer Aeon introduces robot babysitter at 09:20 AM JST - 27th March
WhatJapanThinks at 08:36 AM JST - 27th March

Disabling JavaScript means that I can't view the Quote and the Have Your Say panels, and the Show All also doesn't work.

Oh, and when you post a comment and it gets inserted with JavaScript (unnecessary in my opinion, just reload the page), the Total Comments figure doesn't change.

Also,…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 08:36 AM JST - 27th March
WhatJapanThinks at 08:32 AM JST - 27th March

And the day after tomorrow's headline:

Sailor's fingerprints downloaded from Winny.

Posted in U.S. Navy provides sailor's fingerprints to police over murder at 08:32 AM JST - 27th March