By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, gets a new hit title from Tecmo Koei. Players wanting to register for an early version of “Nobunyaga No Yabou” (Nobunyaga’s Ambition”, a war simulation game), could do so today. However...
Should Yahoo sell its 34.78% stake in Yahoo Japan? The question has been asked for several years now if Yahoo Japan (founded in 1996) should become more independent of its US counterpart. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Yahoo Japan is currently worth $21.5 billion at the Tokyo Stock...
It took a while, but according to The Nikkei, Google Japan is finally introducing TrueView ads on the Japanese version of YouTube. TrueView lets viewers on YouTube decide over which ads they want to watch or ignore. The obvious goal here is to get new advertisers and establish a new revenue stream...
Japan’s No. 1 mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, opened a feature-phone only “app store” on December 6, 2010. The portal started with 1,200 apps, one million music titles and a total of 30,000 e-books, with all content exclusively for download onto Docomo’s feature phones. Docomo gets...
Facebook, Mixi, Twitter, GREE or Mobage? This is an anecdotal list of social media usage in Japan by brands, but it’s interesting. Tokyo-based ad and marketing company Agile Media Network, showed the following graph during the company’s Social Media Summit (via Internet Watch). The...
How can you quickly summarize Japan’s web history from 2005 to 2011? Motohiko Tokuriki, CEO of Tokyo-based ad and marketing company Agile Media Network, showed the following graph (via Internet Watch) during his company’s Social Media Summit today in Tokyo: Translation: 2005: Blogging...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry