By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
“Being able to get on the Net via a cell phone encourages delinquency and deviation. Even when children don’t have wayward intentions, they are easily lured to harmful sites through devious methods.” This advice was given by a professor in the Graduate School of Social and...
As in many countries around the world, a lot of girls in this country are obsessed with shopping and particularly brand shopping ( I hope I am not being too sexist here). People in Japan especially love Italian and French brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana and so forth. In March...
In absolute numbers but also in proportion, Amazon Japan is not as successful as it is in the US or Germany (my home country). However, it is doing surprisingly good. Wal Mart Japan tanked in the offline world, as you may know, even though they are not dead yet. In a rather bold move by Japanese...
Japanese toy and entertainment giant Bandai released a new product past Friday. With this gadget -which is basically just a special kind of USB stick- parents can make sure their kids do not surf “dangerous” web sites anymore. The stick is 9 centimeters long and is called “Pasokon...
It is truly a bizarre and terrible incident about which the Japanese media reported at length this weekend. According to police, three men (between 32 and 40 years old) killed a 31-year-old woman in Nagoya on August 24th. They are accused of kidnapping the woman and robbing her of about 60,000 Yen...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry