By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rakuten is one of the biggest fish in the Japanese Web market. In fact the service is a giant even by global standards: Rakuten is the country’s largest E-Commerce site (oh, that old word) and Japan is the world’s second biggest economy. This alone says a lot. The company is well known...
Western academics in Japan-related research often use the term “iron triangle” when referring to a nexus of power which they say comprises private business, the bureaucracy in this country and its mightiest political party LDP. If the iron triangle really exists, the boldly titled...
Facebook has flaws. Some management decisions are sometimes debatable to say the least. And yes, some requests get can get on your nerves. But in my view, Facebook is still the best place to connect with people. Much better than Friendster, Bebo, MySpace etc. No Facebook Japan yetUpdate: Facebook...
I had the pleasure of attending two IT/Web industry-related events in Tokyo on Wednesday. 1) UltraSuperTube Vol. 2The UltraSuperTube Vol. 2 party was well attended. It was organized by Tokyo-based interactive agency UltraSuperNew. The company also celebrated its first anniversay (Congratulations...
I know quite a bunch of people are expecting to see a report on Tuesday’s tokyo2point0 event here in Tokyo on my blog. This time (and maybe in the future as well) I am writing on Asiajin about it. As previously announced, I became editor there. So please check out my report on Asiajin and...
Mixi is the quasi-standard when it comes to social network usage in Japan (read more in my Mixi-review). Japan’s second largest social network is called GREE. There is no information in English available about GREE online. That means outside Japan almost no one knows about this Web site even...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry