By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Social media, mobile and the web in Japan is a field not too many people living outside this country have an understanding of. I am honored to moderate two Japan-related panels at this year’s SXSW event in Austin/Texas to help spread the word in the US and elsewhere. Specifically, I will be...
Facebook, Mixi, Twitter, GREE or Mobage? This is an anecdotal list of social media usage in Japan by brands, but it’s interesting. Tokyo-based ad and marketing company Agile Media Network, showed the following graph during the company’s Social Media Summit (via Internet Watch). The...
I attended Startupdating #5 yesterday, an event in Tokyo that connects Japan’s web entrepreneurs with engineers looking for new opportunities. Speakers at the event were Hironao Kunimitsu (CEO of Gumi) and Taisei Tanaka (CEO of Geisha Tokyo Entertainment). Their companies are among the...
I know I am a tad late (cough, cough) but better late than never: Many thanks again from my side and in the name of Peter Ha for coming to the TechCrunch/CrunchGear Tokyo meetup on February 3 (Japanese version of the meetup notes is here). Thanks also to Umihiko Namekawa and Nob Takahashi from...
I went to two web industry/tech events last month (December 2008). The first was organized by Ryo Shimizu, CEO and President of Ubiquitous Entertainment, a Tokyo-based web and technology company. Ryo was kind enough to also invite Tetsuya Mizuguchi, one of my absolute heroes. Tetsuya is a legendary...
Silicon Valley hero Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogs and Mahalo, legendary blogger,VC etc.) is on his first visit to Japan (which lasts until Wednesday) and I had the possibility to meet him tonight. What can I say, it was pretty cool to talk to Jason and also meet Japan’s best-known...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry