By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The main trigger for my establishing this blog last year was the ridiculously small amount of information I could get about the Japanese web industry in English at that time. Asiajin (which I am co-authoring) followed suit and improved the situation dramatically, now boasting over 1.800 RSS readers...
Since today, Japan-based web companies are welcome to send in applications for the 4th Mash-up awards jointly organized by Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit. The first price is 10 million Yen (approximately $10,000). Applications will be accepted until September 16th, while the awards show will be...
Here are a couple of VERY useful calendars for tech and web freaks who want to plan ahead for industry events of all kinds:
IT events in Japan (in Japanese, recommended)
ZD NET’s calendar (Japanese )
@IT’s calendar (Japanese)
StartupDating Tokyo (event newsletter in Japanese, English)
I attended a huge IT industry event in Tokyo this week, which actually included three “mini expos” in one:– Business Blog & SNS World 08– Virtual World Conference & Expo 2008– Linux World Expo / Tokyo 2008. The event took place at Tokyo Big Sight, a huge...
My friend Umihiko Namekawa from Techcrunch Japan just posted an article in his blog about the upcoming Techcrunch 50 competition (organized by Techcrunch USA and to be held in September in San Francisco). Following the abscence of Japanese web companies in last year’s Techcrunch 40 event...
As the title of this post suggests, I am now a member of the almighty Techcrunch empire. To be exact, I am actually the only blogger from the Techcrunch (USA) network who is based in Japan. I started writing for Crunchgear a couple of days ago. Crunchgear is the sister blog of Techcrunch, covering...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry