By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Did you ever wonder how your name is spelled in Chinese characters (called Kanji)? Writing it in Katakana (the Japanese alphabet) was yesterday. Now you can “Kanji it” very easily with Kanji-Fandom (website is completely in English). This nifty and fun new web site (very...
My posting about the Top 50 web sites in Japan featured a winner: Yahoo Japan. The company not only dominates Internet search in Japan (approx. 65% market share) but the Internet as a whole, offering a wide range of services. Corporate business figures are not too shabby either. From April to...
Google is the world’s No. 1 search engine but here in Japan, Yahoo is the undisputed king – not only for Internet search but also as a very comprehensive portal. Today it came to light Google Japan will cooperate with Japan’s leading telecommunications company and cell phone...
I recently wondered which the most frequently visited web sites in Japan are. There are a number of services which track popularity of Internet services, i. e. Alexa, Nielsen or Comscore. I am aware that measuring the popularity of web sites is a highly complicated issue and the results are not...
Yesterday I attended the Get Firefox Video Award Show (Japanese only) in Azabu, Tokyo. The aim of the event was to promote Firefox in Japan. So far, my favorite browser conquered a 16% share of the market in this country. (all pictures in this posting courtesy of my friend Thor Asmund) Mozilla...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry