By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency issued a “recommendation” to Groupon Japan on Tuesday, basically telling the company to reconsider the way deals are presented to customers. A spokesman for the agency said they consider the complaints from Japanese customers about Groupon as...
Rakuten today announced that its US company Buy.com (acquired in May last year) launched a special site that makes it possible for the 2,500 merchants registered on Buy.com to ship goods to Japanese customers. Users with a Rakuten ID can buy products on Buy.com, from the US, using the same ID as in...
Just a few weeks ago, Groupon Japan took a serious beating when the company disappointed customers with a botched deal during the New Year. The incident made its way into Japanese mass media (including TV), made Groupon CEO Andrew Mason apologize to his customers in Japan and caused a dent in the...
It took a while, but Rakuten finally released an iPhone app (for Rakuten Ichiba, its online mall) yesterday. It’s available for free in the Japanese App Store and makes it easier for iPhone users to browse through the 70 million items currently listed in Rakuten Ichiba. It’s a good...
Kakaku.com, Japan’s leading price comparison engine, announced it has inked a deal with the Japanese government under which the company will provide price data to the Bank of Japan. Kakaku said it has provided a data set on how prices of TVs and related products in Japan have evolved over the...
Will Cookpad win or Rakuten Recipe? Japanese A-list blogger Akky Akimoto has written an article worth reading on how Japan’s biggest sites for recipes are battling it out currently. It looks like Rakuten Recipe is on its way to overtake Cookpad, a company that’s listed at the Tokyo...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry