Mobage Pre-installed On KDDI’s Android “REGZA Phone IS11T”

DeNA [J] has announced that they will offer pre-install smart phone version “Mobage” applications for Fujutsu Corporation’s Android equipped KDDI smartphone “REGZA Phone IS11T,” which is released for sale on September 9th, which is today. The REGZA Phone IS11T, on which these smart phone version Mobage will be pre-installed, has slide keyboard and touch panel,… Continue reading Mobage Pre-installed On KDDI’s Android “REGZA Phone IS11T”

GREE Collaborates With The 13th Tokyo Girls Collection

GREE [J] is implementing a project in coordination with “The 13th Tokyo Girls’ Collection 2011A/W” [J] through the social networking service “GREE.” “The 13th Tokyo Girls’ Collection 2011 AUTUMN/WINTER” is a fashion festival being held on Saturday September 3rd, 2011.  Since opening in 2005 the theme has been “Japanese real clothes to the world.” From… Continue reading GREE Collaborates With The 13th Tokyo Girls Collection

Mobage’s Flagship Game Kaitou Royal Goes On TV Drama

MyCom reported [J] that Kaitou Royal, a popular social game on which you play heroic bandits, has been being offered on the one of two major social game platform Mobage by DeNA, will be dramatized for TV next month October. Like as in the original game, there are three flavors of characters, each of who… Continue reading Mobage’s Flagship Game Kaitou Royal Goes On TV Drama

Colopl Releases Collectable “Local Hello Kitty” Location Game

Colopl [J], which also runs the location information service platform “Colopula,” has released the new game “Go Tochi Kitty Collection” (Local Kitty Collection). In this game, a location game offered by Imagineer [J] and licensed by Sanrio [J] as well as ASunARosyA [J], while traveling all over Japan with Hello Kitty, you collect various place’s… Continue reading Colopl Releases Collectable “Local Hello Kitty” Location Game

Mobile Subscribers In Japan: The Latest Numbers

The Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA) of Japan has released a set of statistics on Japan’s mobile market today, showing that the country had 122.44 million cell phone subscribers last month (out of a total population of 128 million). According to the organization, Japan’s carriers added 569,200 new customers between July and August. Breaking down the… Continue reading Mobile Subscribers In Japan: The Latest Numbers

Major Publishers, Novelists And Cartoonists Pressures Over 100 Book-Scan Agents

According to ITMedia [J], Internet Watch [J] and others, 7 major Japanese publishers (Kadokawa Shoten, Kodansha, Kobunsha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Shinchosha and Bungei Syunjyu) and 122 known authors of novels and manga reportedly sent a question letter to over 100 companies who are selling so-called “Jisui”(自炊) service. “Jisui” originally means “self cooking” in Japanese, but in… Continue reading Major Publishers, Novelists And Cartoonists Pressures Over 100 Book-Scan Agents

Amazon Japan And Yodobashi Camera Heat Up On The Release Day Delivery

We just reported that electronic chain-store Yodobashi Camera began the same day delivery around Tokyo on weekend. I saw it as the race for better service level against its competitors, including Amazon Japan. On September 5, Amazon Japan started a new delivery option “Hatsubaibi Todoke”(= deliver on the release day) initially with selected games, Gamespot… Continue reading Amazon Japan And Yodobashi Camera Heat Up On The Release Day Delivery

Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage

Popular blog Netafull reported [J] that Risa Nakanishi (@BuzzTum), who has been serving for Yahoo! Japan for 12 years, sometimes called “PR Diva”, (as Yahoo! Japan has been the champion last decade) one of the center figure of Japanese web industry, left Yahoo! and joined Digital Garage(DG), the most known by its founder Joi Itoh.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage

CyberAgent America Releases Second Smartphone Game, “Coin Pusher Mafia”

Cyber Agent’s American subsidiary company CyberAgent America, Inc. has released the game application “Coin Pusher Mafia” for iPhone.  Download is free. “Coin Pusher Mafia” is Cyber Agent’s second released smartphone game application title.  It’s a combination between a mafia game and a slot machine game, and along with the previously released “Zombie Restaurant,” [J] it… Continue reading CyberAgent America Releases Second Smartphone Game, “Coin Pusher Mafia”