By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
As blogged earlier, I met some authors from the Techcrunch empire at this year’s CEATEC, Asia’s biggest exhibition for IT and electronics. If you know Japanese, please read Japanese Web 2.0 guru Umihiko Namekawa’s san opinion about the show and our get-together with John Biggs...
Japan is a leading producer of TVs. Everyone knows that. Also, everyone heard a lot of marketing bla-bla in the last years about “merging technologies”, “bridging digital gaps in the living room” and, of course, browsing the web on TVs. Obviously, this will be the case one...
As a “guest”, I contributed an article to zweinull.cc about the current status quo of Web 2.0 in Japan. Zweinull.cc is a pretty famous blog about the Web 2.0 world. However, it is written entirely in German – just like my entry. In case you may wonder: I am a German. The article...
This review features a web site that I myself use excessively and which every Japanese knows of: Kakaku.com (the whole site is Japanese only). Kakaku (価格) roughly means “price”, so what may sound cool to Westerners sounds kind of bland to Japanese ears. It is one of the most famous...
Well, KDDI’s DVD service is now online. Users outside Japan are blocked out. I registered for the service but as a movie and DVD fan, I will probably never need it. Downloading DVDs might be interesting for Japanese customers in rural areas with no rental shops though. Anyway, let me show you...
In terms of speed, Japan clearly boasts the best Internet structure in the world. The median download speed over here is 61 mbps per second. Even Web wunderkind South Korea is trailing with 46 mbps. The number for the USA is staggering: 2 mbps (!), according to a recent report in the Washington...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry