I just read the survey taken by OPT and Cross Marketing with 300 male and female Blog and SNS users in Japan. It has interesting results about what have the impact on Japanese consumers in purchasing products and services. Q. … Read More
Google’s Gmail account is now available for general public without an invitation in Japan. Currently, Google is the default search engine on mobile “au” through the tie-up with KDDI. Gmail may become “au”‘s mobile mailer soon??? Gmail is also available … Read More
“Obon” (Aug 10-16) is one of the biggest holiday season in Japan. More and more people use Internet to obtain leisure related information such as travel booking, attraction, and weather. On the other hand, people are busy with their vacation … Read More
Overture Japan began serving ads to Japan’s No.1 social networking service “mixi” on July 27. The content-match ads appear on the mixi content search results pages. On July 26, mixi announced that its membership reached 5 million on July 24. … Read More
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry announced the results of the mobile content and commerce market research. It shows that the mobile content market grew to 722mil yen, which is 39% growth from the previous year. The mobile content including … Read More
Mobile Research with goo, a project run by goo research and Japan.internet.com, announced the results of the Mobile Search research. 1083 mobile users in Japan participated in the research, 43.4% male and 56.6% female. Yahoo mobile is the most popular … Read More
A blog service provider, Hot Link announced the results of blog/SNS usage survey in Japan. 59.2% of blog owners said that the ads appear on their blog, and 67.2% said that they’ve clicked the ads on the blogs. 66.0% answered … Read More
The latest research by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication shows that there are more mobile Internet users (approx. 69.23mil) than PC Internet users (approx. 66.01mil) in Japan for the first time in history. It also shows 57% (approx. 48.62mil) … Read More
PSI-Japan has begun accepting the applications for new domain “.mobi” for mobile sites. From May 22 to 29, the registration is limited to the member companies and organizations to GSMA, CTIA, MMA, CWTA, and MEF for their registered trademarks. From … Read More
KDDI announced the agreement with Google to incorporate Google’s search engine into its EZ Web Internet service for “au” mobile phones in July. This search service for both mobile phones and PCs, is the first of its kind in Japan. … Read More
Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan. Here are some of the results: Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone? – Yes, and … Read More
JASK (Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai) was established on May 12th. They will exchange and provide the information and the services with affiliate service providers, including: – increase the understanding of the affiliate programs – monitor improper activities and exchange the … Read More
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies. * Blog membership: 8680,000 * … Read More
MARS FLAG is a search engine made in Japan, which shows the search results with web page images. It started to run the beta version in March 2005, and officially opened on May 8th. They also started to provide the … Read More
According to “The Face of the Web”, which was published by a market researcher Ipso Insight, Japan remains the world’s No.1 Internet based economy with about 9 in 10 said to have used the Internet in the past 30 days, … Read More
