By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
One of Japan’s most popular online restaurant services, Gourmet Navigator (English website), has announced it landed a significant distribution deal with NTT Docomo. Starting in June, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier will pre-install a dedicated Gourmet Navigator application on...
Japan’s largest price comparison service Kakaku.com has posted its financial results for the last quarter of fiscal 2010 (January to March 2011). Sales, profit, and income have all grown by around 30% year-on-year, driven especially by Kakaku itself and the increasing popularity of restaurant...
Kakaku has announced a native Android app for yoyaQ.com, its online reservation site for luxury hotels in Japan. The app lets users look up various information on hotels, for example pricing or availability of rooms. It’s also possible to bookmark entries, look for same-day deals with a...
Amazon Japan has released a native Android app today. It allows users to search for all 20 million items listed on Amazon Japan and directly make a purchase, too. The app also features a barcode function, Amazon’s 1-click ordering system, and Amazon Prime support. The Amazon Japan Android app...
Japan’s largest e-commerce company Rakuten released its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 today. And things are looking quite good: consolidated net sales, for example, rose 9.8% year-on-year to 86,921 million yen, despite the negative effects of the March 11 earthquake. Operating...
Popular Japanese restaurant information service Gourmet Navigator (English website) has released its financial results for fiscal 2010. And business wasn’t as good as in fiscal 2009, it seems. Sales just grew 4.4% year-on-year, while net income fell a whopping 22% to just 1.8 billion yen...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry