A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo (on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country, to be more exact).
Companies and services discussed include Yahoo Japan, Mixi, GREE, DenA (Mobage), Twitter Japan, Facebook Japan, Rakuten, Amazon Japan, etc.
Here is the the overview (direct link) – which is edited and different from the original version by the way: