By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Slightly off-topic, but here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s robot industry I wrote for the journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: Excerpt: Over one million industrial robots are currently toiling around the world, most of them in Japan. There are 295 of these...
Amazon Japan seems to be in deep trouble with tax authorities in this country: Bad news for Amazon over the weekend. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau slapped Amazon’s affiliated unit “Amazon.com International Sales” with a $119 million tax bill. Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported yesterday...
What is Rakuten and how does this company do against Amazon Japan? These are the two main questions I answer in this primer: The term “e-commerce” still lacks a universally valid definition, but even if you just bundle B2B and B2C transactions under it, it’s a multi-trillion dollar business...
The next tech IPO in Japan is around the corner: Super-popular recipe community Cookpad is getting listed. It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. Cookpad [JP], the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in 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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry