By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rakuten announced they inked a deal with Disney Japan to set up a special online shop on Rakuten Ichiba. The so-called Disney Store will offer Disney-related goods to the site’s 70 million members. For Disney, Japan is one of the world’s biggest markets. The company operates 47 brick...
How many smartphones are there in Japan, who is offering them and what are the specs? The following site provides a good, up-to-date overview of the smartphone situation in this country. The site shows that Android is rapidly popularity in Japan: Link (Japanese only) Link (same site, under Google...
You want to track Japanese Internet Stocks in English, and Rakuten, DeNA (Mobage), GREE, Mixi, Kakaku, Yahoo Japan, Digital Garage, Dwango are among the listed web companies you follow? Then you should check out these sites (both are available in English, next to Japanese): Netindex Japan...
DeNA today announced “All Night Nippon”, a social game on Mobage (their new brand name) that allows users to run their own TV show. As with all Mobage games, the title is free to play and will be monetized via virtual item sales.
Here are some screenshots:
Here’s an interesting article on how Groupon is doing in Japan and how it competes with its rivals (Pike, Ponpare etc.). The company makes $12 million in revenue in Japan per month, which is about two times of what it’s biggest rival generates. I reported a few days ago that Groupon...
Kakaku isn’t only a price comparison engine: the eponymous company behind the service also offers Tabelog, a restaurant site that’s competing with Gourmet Navigator (listed, 2440). What many people don’t know is that Tabelog used to be just a forum for people to discuss...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry