By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
In absolute numbers but also in proportion, Amazon Japan is not as successful as it is in the US or Germany (my home country). However, it is doing surprisingly good. Wal Mart Japan tanked in the offline world, as you may know, even though they are not dead yet. In a rather bold move by Japanese...
Japanese toy and entertainment giant Bandai released a new product past Friday. With this gadget -which is basically just a special kind of USB stick- parents can make sure their kids do not surf “dangerous” web sites anymore. The stick is 9 centimeters long and is called “Pasokon...
It is truly a bizarre and terrible incident about which the Japanese media reported at length this weekend. According to police, three men (between 32 and 40 years old) killed a 31-year-old woman in Nagoya on August 24th. They are accused of kidnapping the woman and robbing her of about 60,000 Yen...
The Japanese love Youtube, especially since the company fully localized its site a couple of weeks ago. Casio recently introduced a new digital camera of its Exilim series (EX-S880) which lets you upload videos automatically to the video sharing site. It is already available in the west as well...
Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sharp have agreed upon broadcasting interactive ads for TVs with Internet access. The companies plan to set up a joint venture. Japanese viewers will be able to see the commercials from autumn this year. The companies will produce online content like news...
The Nikkei Business Daily, Japan’s most famous business paper, reported in a recent issue that Kenko-plus Inc. (Japanese only) plans to set up a new kind of restaurant research site later this year. Kenko-plus is a relatively small entity based in Osaka and calls itself a “IT & Bio-Informatics...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry