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This week’s roundup of Japanese startup investments features custom clothing and pre-planned vacations.

Shogo Numakura was blown away by the first Oculus Rift. Now he has raised $1m from 500 Startups and others to bring VR design software to another level.

Hiking and outdoor community and map app Yamap raises $1.49m to expand abroad. It plans to focus on selling more outdoor gear and user growth.

VR is the darling of the tech world right now. But investment enthusiasm isn’t yet based on concrete results.

Each of these companies, born after 1980, have a market cap that’s over US$1 billion. How many do you recognize?

2014 had some pretty awesome indie mobile games. Here are 16 of them.

The funding round will strengthen Lancers’ business partnerships and put the company in a stronger position to win freelancers outside of Tokyo.

Ten companies qualify but the list is likely to change in the near future.

Move over, card games. Roleplaying games – RPGs – are now the most popular mobile game genre for Android users in Japan. App monetization platform Metaps discussed why in a

These are Games in Asia’s picks of the week spanning May 30 to June 6. If you’ve got a great new game that you think deserves to get featured, drop