By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Facebook Japan, now with a 3.2 million user base, has closed a nice distribution deal today. KDDI au, Japan’s No. 2 mobile carrier, has announced it will feature Facebook prominently on (almost) all future smartphones from the company (I actually expected this announcement to be made by...
I had my doubts about Facebook Japan‘s growth recently, but now Javier Olivan (Head Of International Growth at Facebook), confirmed that Facebook is growing quite nicely in Japan indeed. In an interview with Nikkei Trendy, Olivan said that Facebook’s growth in Japan has been “very...
Legendary Japanese science-fiction anime Space Battleship Yamato has been turned into a social game and already been made available on GREE, the company announced today. In the game, which is called “Space Battleship Yamato – Battle Cards” and takes place in a Sci-Fi setting...
Good news for Dwango: in its latest financial report, the company says that Nico Nico Douga has counted 21.03 million users at the end of March 2011 (the end of fiscal 2011). 6.23 million users are using Nico Nico on cell phones. Dwango also says that the number of premium members in Japan (who pay...
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi started offering the official Mixi app for Android in December last year. And today the company announced the release of the Mixi Android SDK kit for developers. The SDK is supposed to make it easier for social app providers to create Android apps using the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry