By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry

Kantan Games Inc. CEO Blog – From Tokyo, Japan

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Yahoo Japan just announced the opening of the so-called Yahoo Japan Application Platform (YAP). The company is asking third-party developers to provide applications, which could be anything from games to productivity apps. For Yahoo Japan, the app section means a new revenue stream, as the apps can...

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Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage) jointly launched, is off to a good start: Nielsen Japan is reporting that in August 2010, before the integration of Yahoo Mobage into Yahoo Games, Yahoo saw 5.3 million UU per month. On September 21, Yahoo Mobage...

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How are Mixi, Facebook Japan, GREE and DeNA (Mobage-town) doing at the moment? Here’s an interesting study released by MMD Research from Tokyo on Japan’s social games market. This graph shows how social networks are used in Japan (green: brand awareness, purple: actual users) This graph...

By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry