Kabam Launches $50 Million Fund to Bring Japanese Games to the West
California-based game studio Kabam has set up a $50 million fund aimed at getting Japanese games int...
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Line’s Kawaii Characters Become Animated TV Series in Japan
NHN Japan’s Line mobile messaging app has hit over 120 million users so far. You may or may no...
KakaoTalk Hits 10 Million Downloads in Japan
KakaoTalk says in a blog post today that it has hit 10 million downloads in Japan.
Japan’s Cutesy Photodeco App Hits 500,000 Downloads
Made by Japanese mobile giant I-Freek, the photo customization app Photodeco has hit 500,000 downloa...
Groovy, Baby: DeNA Launches Social Music App for Japan
When the Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) rebranded a couple of months ago, it also teas...
Gungho’s ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Probably Made Up to $86 Million In Sales Last Month
The crazy Puzzle and Dragons boom in Japan continues – and it gets even crazier. Maker GungHo (...
Japan’s Metaps Teams Up With Appota To Monetize Apps in Vietnam
Metaps, the Android monetization platform out of Japan that just secured $11 million in series B fun...
Japan’s Flash Sales Frenzy Continues with Series B Funding for Luxa
Selling everything from pricey sake to quality skincare products, Luxa.jp, as its name might suggest...
Japan’s Video Game Market Grows to $4.6 Billion in 2012 (But Social Games Not Too Far Off)
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on ...
Nijibox Reaches 5 Million Gamers, Founder Yoichi Gets Even Busier
Japanese game developer and publisher Nijibox announced on Monday that there are a few personnel cha...
Social Games and Gaming Trends in Japan (Slideshare Presentation)
When Dr. Serkan Toto says something about Japan’s social gaming scene, we tend to listen, beca...
Japanese Photo App DecoAlbum Gets Funding, Because Kawaii Never Goes Out of Style
Japanese photo app DecoAlbum has just revealed the finalization of $100,000 in seed funding from Eas...
Google Street View Ventures into Post-Quake, Off-Limits Fukushima Prefecture
A little more than two years after the colossal Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 2011,...
SoftBank to Take Majority Stake In ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Maker GungHo
With the investment, the telco’s stake in the Puzzle and Dragons game maker increases from 33.6 to...
Got Game: Japan’s NTT Docomo to Launch ‘D Game’ Portal Tomorrow with China Mobile
Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) is buddying up with another giant telco, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG...
Truecaller Now Installed on Every 7th Smartphone in India, Eyes Japan and Indonesia Next
Sweden-based crowdsourcing phone directory app Truecaller announced today that the company now proce...
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