By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA announced that users of the Yahoo Mobage platform for PC-based social games as well as those playing games on Mobagetown on smartphones can now pay for virtual items using BitCash. BitCash is a popular e-money service in japan that can be used to make payments on the web. Users can transfer...
It’s no secret that Japan is very much an anime nation, which is why the license deal DeNA () inked today with Toei Animation is potentially good news for them (Toei is one of Japan’s biggest anime production studios). Under the deal, DeNA will develop mobile social games based on anime...
Kakaku, which runs Japan’s leading price comparison engine of the same name, has released [ENG, PDF] website access stats for its two biggest properties, Kakaku itself and restaurant guide Tabelog. In a nutshell, things are looking pretty good on a year-on-year basis. Kakaku.com saw 30.11...
I today joined the advisory board of Startup Dating, a Tokyo-based startup community project that was launched last year and intends to connect people in the local IT scene through regular networking events. Startup Dating’s basic idea is to help entrepreneurs with a technical background find...
Facebook is growing in Japan, Twitter is already huge – no surprise that GREE now lets you find and invite friends registered on these social networks with the push of a button. GREE enabled the two new options on its PC and smartphone platforms today. All you need to do is to enter your...
Good news for Facebook Japan lately: driven by heavy coverage in local media, the Social Network movie (that topped the box office in Japan) and a few other factors, Facebook has now hit 2.55 million users. That’s still a far cry from the 23 million users Mixi boasts, but Facebook added...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry