3rdKind Bringing More Foreign Smartphone Apps to Japan's Mobile Market

Japan’s 3rdKind Inc. has just announced a new partnership with London-based games and apps developer AMA Ltd (Advanced Mobile Applications) that will bring the latter’s Android apps to Japan via NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) and KDDI’s (TYO:9433) ‘au Smart Pass’ service. 3rdKind helps foreign companies with localization, marketing, and development for the Japanese market.

This latest news comes in the wake of 3rdKind’s partnership with KDDI a few weeks back for publishing foreign smartphone applications on au Smart Pass.

That service uses an intriguing subscription model which sees users pay a monthly fee of 390 yen (almost $5) for access to a selection of over 500 apps which the carrier has selected.

A representative from 3rdKind says that we can expect these sort of announcements to continue as it helps more developers publish in the Japanese market, not just for au Smart Pass but also for the Apple App store, Google Play, and Docomo’s dmarket.