• Shibuya East - 渋谷東口店
• Tachikawa - 立川店
• Namba - なんば店
• Yurakucho - 有楽町店
• Sapporo - 札幌店
• Shinjuku West - 新宿西口店
• Nagoya Station West - 名古屋駅西店
• Omiya West Exit Sogo - 大宮西口そごう店
• Kashiwa - 柏店
• Fujisawa - 藤沢店
• Lazona Kawasaki - ラゾーナ川崎店
• Takatsuki - 高槻商品センター
• Okayama - 岡山店
• Hiroshima - 広島店
• Shin-Yokohama - 新横浜店
• Yokohama - 浜松店
• Niigata - ビックカメラ新潟店
• New Ikebukuro Pasokon shop - パソコン館池袋新本店
• Tenjin - 天神１号館

You can find both Poken Pulse and Poken Spark in the PC Peripheral section.
A big thanks to our partner Focal Point Computer.

Go check it out!

KDDI Web Communications, in partnership with Google Japan, announced at a press conference on January 13 that their server hosting service CPI is expanding its lineup of services. From today on they offer a Hybrid Hosting solution linking their standard web servers to Google’s “Google Apps Premier Edition” service.

All attendees at the press conference received an original Poken Pulse with the KDDI and CPI logos imprinted.

Details of the service can be found here (Japanese only).

Follow the CPI team on Twitter: cpiadjp

Poken Pulse was used not simply as a give-away gadget. Inside the Pulse’s 2GB of USB memory the attendees could find the press release, logo files, and other useful documentation. On top of that everyone received a little card which allows them to win several very nice prizes.

Being one of the leading companies riding the Social Media wave, the KDDI Web Communications PR people invited everyone to tweet during the press conference using hashtag #kwc. It was awesome to see the real-time stream of messages that followed.

For more information regarding the Poken Spark and Pulse customization options you can contact us here

More examples can be found on the Poken customization overview page.

We’re happy to announce that the trade fair went very well and we would like to thank everyone who visited us. We really hope you had a chance to meet with interesting companies and who knows sometime in the not too distant future we’ll see several of these companies enter the Japanese market with their products and services.

Of course, we offered our pokens with an original EU-Gateway cap, not only to the visitors but also to all participating companies and staff members. Just a great way for everyone to meet in real life, connect and stay in touch online through the power of Poken.

Representatives from 34 Small and Medium-sized European ICT companies are visiting Tokyo the week of Nov 30 - Dec 4 as part of the EU Gateway programme. They will be bringing a broad range of technologies and looking for opportunities to export their products and services to Japan.

The trade fair on December 2-3 is a unique opportunity for them to meet with people from leading companies and potential business partners here in Japan.

On both days 125 visitors will receive an original EU Gateway poken for free!

An excellent opportunity to hi-four, connect and stay in touch with the representatives at the 34 trade fair booths.

Date: 2009/12/02 (Wed) 11:00-18:00, 12/3 (Thu) 11:00-17:00
Place: Hilton Hotel, Shinjuku [access]
Address: 6-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 6-chome, Shinjuku-Ku
* A shuttle bus leaves from Shinjuku station every 20 mins
Entrance: free after pre-registration (required)

For more information: EU Gateway programme

For many months we have been working secretly with the team at Temple University to create an original cap. A big thanks to Alex Sanson, Herman’s designer!

Yes, also you can get your hands on this unique poken cap by attending the party on Saturday, November 21.

Saturday, November 21, 2009
7:30 pm — 11:00 pm
Stellato [www.stellato.com]
3F 4-19-17 Shirokanedai,Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0071

Ticket price: ¥ 6,000
(limited edition Herman poken included)

RSVP by midnight November 13: reunion-rsvp@tuj.ac.jp.
Include name, guests’ names, e-mail, and method of payment: bank transfer or at the door.

This is an exclusive event and RSVP is required.
Call 03-5441-9800 ext 633 for more info.

Download the e-vite.

We hope to see you there!

A few weeks ago we officially introduced a stylish Poken Pulse featuring 2 GB of memory. Today we are welcoming the Urban Pop collection: 4 new, cool-looking designs made by Dutch artist GabyGaby

So, who’s this GabyGaby guy?

GABY (407): obviously a new name in the art world. Originally from The Hague but now living in Bussum he surprised a lot of people in the contemporary art world and beyond with his unusual style. Gaby makes art the unconventional way: he uses colors, he Photoshops, he glues, he stitches, he paints and draws (and mixes it), literally outside the old conventions…
He works with all kinds of material (paint, felt-tips, sugar, coke, tape) in different ways (stapling, painting, gluing)
on different backgrounds. It outreaches beyond the common canvas, he uses everything he thinks is possible: on ripped cardboard, sneakers, clothes, action figures, et cetera.

…and now, for a limited time, his canvas is Poken Pulse.

Find out more about GabyGaby at his website and follow him on Twitter.

Poken Pulse City Pool

Poken Pulse New Colors

Poken Pulse Stripe City

Poken Pulse Stripy Colors

Sure, from the outside they look like the standard, stylish Poken Pulse. But when you remove the cap you’ll discover some real, slightly eccentric art!

We are proud to announce our next official Poken Meetup: a rakugo evening with Koshira Tatekawa!

We would like to invite both the die-hard rakugo fans as well as people who would like to experience their first rakugo evening.

Event details:
Date: November 16 (Monday)
Doors open: 19:30
Start： 20:00
Place: The Pink Cow, Shibuya
Entrance fee: 2,000 yen (covers one drink, light tapas-style meal, rakugo performance)

Please come join us and bring along all your friends!

As we need to make reservations for the food we’d love to hear from you by Thursday November 12 using Twitter: send a Direct Message to our Twitter account @PokenJapan or contact us with the hash tag #PokenRakugo.

Until October 31 we’re running a special Halloween campaign with the following 6 character designs being offered at only 2,000 yen: Voodoo, Mad K, Franky, Ghost, Vampire, Dragon.

Have you been thinking about buying one for yourself or perhaps a small gift for your friends? Here’s your chance!

Organizing a Poken Meetup with your friends and colleagues? Please check out our
free battery-replacement campaign (Japanese)

The micro-blogging service has been an important part of Akoni’s strategy to launch Poken in Japan and it continues to be a cornerstone of our further growth here.

Our official @PokenJapan account has already over 5,500 followers and continues to grow day after day.

Lots of cool things have happened in the past weeks and here are a few we would like to share with you:

[1] On October 9 the book 「ツイッター 140文字が世界を変える」 (Twitter - 140 characters changing the world) was published by Mycom Books.

Authors are the famous bloggers Mr. Kogure of Netaful (@kogure) and Mr. Ishitani of Mitaimon (@masakiishitani). Congratulations!

You can find an interview with Yoshimi about our official @PokenJapan account on page 143 in the list with business show cases.

The book is available on Amazon.co.jp.

[2] As Twitter gets bigger, also the navigation site Twinavi is becoming more popular. You can now find our official @PokenJapan account in the list with corporate accounts!

More details here: http://twinavi.jp/company/detail/163

[3] Another book which was published only a few days ago is
『Twitter マーケティング 消費者との絆が深まるつぶやきのルール』 (Twitter Marketing). Authors are Mr. Yamazaki, Mr. Nozaki, Mr. Saito and Mr. Kawai. Our ＠PokenJapan official account is being featured once more. Thank you very much!!!

This book gives easy to understand advice on how to get started with Twitter as a marketing tool. You can order it directly on Amazon.co.jp. Check it out!