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Samurai Japan Introduces First "Tagboard" in Japanese Sports. Rollout Begins with All Euro Game

3/4/2015

Alongside the "Hikari TV 4K GLOBAL BASEBALL MATCH 2015: Samurai Japan vs. All Euro", held at Tokyo Dome on March 10th (Tue) and 11th (Wed), 2015, the Japanese national baseball team "Samurai Japan" is introducing "Tagboard".
"Tagboard" is a next-generation search engine that can integrate information by incorporating the "# (hashtags)" from SNS such as "Twitter", "Facebook", "Instagram", and "Vine". Introducing Tagboard will allow for information to be displayed and distributed more effectively.
Also, by linking this with staium vision and live broadcast screens on TV and the Internet, fans watching the game at the stadium and at home can share their excitement. This has been introduced in America's 5 major professional sports (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS) and European soccer, but Samurai Japan is the first to introduce this in Japanese professional sports.

Samurai Japan will collaborate with Tagboard and their cutting edge technoogy, using the hashtags "#侍ジャパン" and "#SamuraiJapan" to unify the fans across the barriers of SNS's, and develop more effective transmission of information.

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