By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yesterday I attended the Get Firefox Video Award Show (Japanese only) in Azabu, Tokyo. The aim of the event was to promote Firefox in Japan. So far, my favorite browser conquered a 16% share of the market in this country. (all pictures in this posting courtesy of my friend Thor Asmund) Mozilla...
I regularly speak with a lot of Japanese IT experts and insiders personally: software developers, programmers, IT company owners, web designers, bloggers etc. Regardless of the size of the companies they are working for (some are self-employed) I am constantly impressed about their openness when...
Japan is the second biggest economy in the world, has a population of 128 million and can be proud of its vibrant and innovative Internet market. However, there is not even a handful of blogs in English covering the Japanese Internet scene. Just a couple of days before I set up Tokyotronic...
Yesterday I attended a Tokyo2point0 event in Omotesandou/Tokyo for the first time. Tokyo2point0 is a social network set up by Tokyo-based Englishman and IT fanatic Andrew Shuttleworth. However, members of this community also meet in real life on a regular basis. You can sign up directly on the site...
I was surprised to hear today that social network Friendster has released a Japanese version of its site. They also launched Friendster in Korean (the site is already available in Chinese). I have to admit this move leaves me a little staggered. Friendster makes two “mistakes” here: 1)...
We all know how it works: Somebody smuggles a video camera into a movie theater, tapes it off the screen and uploads it on a torrent site, Emule, Winny (a Japanese P2P system) or wherever and anybody can download the file later. In my opinion, Japanese people tend to refrain from illegal...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry