Facebook in Japan

Every once in a while, I see alarmist tweets or reports that indicate the number of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) users in a certain territory has “dramatically dropped” in a very short period of time. In the case of Japan, the last time this made the rounds in social media and elsewhere was in June this year (just one example).

CyberAgent America’s (a subsidiary of Tokyo-based CyberAgent) Pico World is already going strong over on Facebook, and today the virtual world recruited a big attraction that should help it even more

CyberAgent America’s (a subsidiary of Tokyo-based CyberAgent) Pico World is already going strong over on Facebook, and today the virtual world recruited a big attraction that should help it even more

Toyota's Social Network Racer Thanks to Chiyo over on Asiajin for pointing out Toyota’s new Social Network Racer Facebook game/promotion. While I’m not personally a big fan of playing Facebook

Thanks to Chiyo over on Asiajin for pointing out Toyota’s new Social Network Racer Facebook game/promotion. While I’m not personally a big fan of playing Facebook games, there’s clearly some

Facebook recently topped the 5 million user mark in Japan, and its rapid growth in the country has the attention of not only individual users, but also of corporations who

Mixi has a fresh new logo too (Photo: techwave.jp) Japanese social networking site Mixi followed the lead of Facebook today by launching public pages for companies and individuals. ‘Public’ is

The city of Takeo in Saga prefecture, Japan has decided that it will use a Facebook page as the website of the city government. That’s a pretty big commitment to

A new social recruiting service from Japan called Jobring was launched on July 29th.  It is the first recruiting service that features deep integration with Facebook.  The service targets college

Here’s an interesting study from Japan’s Nobot Inc., the parent company of Admaker, whose CEO we spoke to earlier this month. Nobot recently conducted a small survey into the experiences