Naisyoku – Japanese Mobile Social Game Leads You To Be… Menial Labor

Naisyoku (Moonlight Job) is a new social game by Acquire Corp. for DeNA’s mobile social networking service Mobage Town. The Japanese word Naisyoku is not so positive. It literally means “working at home” but the word is often used to refer ultra menial labors done by low-income people who are unable to take regular jobs.… Continue reading Naisyoku – Japanese Mobile Social Game Leads You To Be… Menial Labor

DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad

DeNA, which runs one of big three Japanese social networking Mobage-Town, today announced and immediately launched MiniNation and its games, their popular social games and its basement community in English on iPhone/iPad for oversea users. The games and MiniNation are only available “outside of Japan”. So it is not for their royal Japanese users but… Continue reading DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad

A Japanese TV Network Testing Social Casual Game Network

One of Japan’s major television network Fuji TV announced and called for beta testers for their new online community site “Kimi to Fuji TV” [J] (“Kimi Fuji” in short) on March 15th. “Kimi to” means “with You” in Japanese. At beta, the site offers few social games which themed on their popular TV programs like… Continue reading A Japanese TV Network Testing Social Casual Game Network

Mobage Town launched World-wide English Service MobaMingle

DeNA Global, 100% subsidiary of DeNA, who runs Mobage Town, the Japan’s biggest mobile social networking site with casual games, started its global service MobaMingle . DeNA Global is located in California, USA, but the MobaMingle can be accessed from 70 countries, including UK, France, Germany on cellular phone. Access from Japan is blocked so… Continue reading Mobage Town launched World-wide English Service MobaMingle