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It’s a known fact that Japanese are one of the top users of Social media in the world. Japan was the number 1 country by the number of YouTube users for years, and still now, Japanese spend most time on [...]

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According to a report on “Shopping and E-commerce businesses in Japan” by Fuji-Keizai, the market including catalog shopping, TV shopping, online shopping and mobile shopping, will become $5.4 billion market in 2010, a 109% growth from 2008.

The report also [...]

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Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) announced its launch of SEMPO APAC Committee.

SEMPO APAC plans and organizes SEMPO activities in the Asia-Pacific region to educate the market, grow membership and awareness of the Online & Search Marketing Industry, as [...]

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The first ad:tech in Japan was held on Sept 2-3 in Tokyo. The agenda had 4 keynotes invited from overseas and a keynote panel by 3 Creative directors and a CEO from Japanese corporations including Dentsu. Innovation was one of [...]

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On July 29, GREE (gree.jp), one of the biggest SNS sites in Japan, announced its financial report from June. The report shows that they had 374% increase in sales and 696% increase in profit compare to June of last year.

Since [...]

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7 organizations such as Internet Associations in Japan are getting together to set up Japanese Internet Domain Name Conference (the final name may change). The main purpose of the conference is to set the regulations and standards for new Japanese [...]

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Ask.jp announced that they will end the search service on June 25. They ad services has been ended in May. The search services include web, blog, products and category search. Ask opened its beta version in August 2004, and the [...]

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Yahoo Japan has been providing the analytic tool for Geocities Plus (paid) Members since March 2009, and just announced that the tool is now available for free to all registered (Yahoo ID holders) users.

This easy to user tool [...]

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SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Asia Tour and Seminars aim to foster awareness, educate, and promote the search industry in Asia by connecting professionals in the regions and Western markets, and creating a better understanding of search and its [...]

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Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the latest Internet population data in Japan. According to the report, there were more than 90.9 million Internet users in Japan as of January 2009, which is 2.8 million more than the [...]

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According to comScore Japan’s access ranking report on entertainment sites for February 2009, 45.7 million Japanese visited entertainment sites during the month of February, which is about 74% of Internet users in Japan. (The data includes the accesses from PC [...]