By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japanese web and telecom giant Softbank and China-based B2B platform Alibaba are collaborating. 65 percent of Alibaba Japan will be owned by Softbank, the rest by Alibaba’s parent company. The companies are investing 20 million USD into the joint venture. There are over 1 million products...
Rakuten is one of the biggest fish in the Japanese Web market. In fact the service is a giant even by global standards: Rakuten is the country’s largest E-Commerce site (oh, that old word) and Japan is the world’s second biggest economy. This alone says a lot. The company is well known...
This review features a web site that I myself use excessively and which every Japanese knows of: Kakaku.com (the whole site is Japanese only). Kakaku (価格) roughly means “price”, so what may sound cool to Westerners sounds kind of bland to Japanese ears. It is one of the most famous...
In absolute numbers but also in proportion, Amazon Japan is not as successful as it is in the US or Germany (my home country). However, it is doing surprisingly good. Wal Mart Japan tanked in the offline world, as you may know, even though they are not dead yet. In a rather bold move by Japanese...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry