By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
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...
I think we can all agree Facebook and Myspace are the world’s leading social networks. However, both sites play a negligible role here in Japan. Ususally only Japanese people having a lot of international friends are registered. Over here, there is only one social network that matters: Mixi...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry