AllAbout Launches Non-Japanese AllAbout Japan for Foreign Visitors

AllAbout Inc., AllAbout Inc., a Japanese company which originally started as a joint-venture between Recruit and US About.com, running All About in Japanese, announced today [J] September 29th that its multi language sites AllAbout Japan, initially with English. According to the release, the site will have original articles by 500 Japan expert foreign writers, who… Continue reading AllAbout Launches Non-Japanese AllAbout Japan for Foreign Visitors

Animation of Shukatsu, Japanese Job Hunt By New Graduates

Tokyo University of the Arts students released a shot animation movie depicts college students’ job hunting activities in Japan. In Japan, most companies uniformly runs recruiting program around 1 or more years before college students graduates schools. It is so called shu-katsu (SHUshoku KATSUdou, job hunting activities). Many people, both workers and students, think, believe… Continue reading Animation of Shukatsu, Japanese Job Hunt By New Graduates

Facebook Spot Information Is Jacked By A Giant Japanese Coupon Business Player

Facebook Spot Information is becoming popular in Japan after Facebook had started Check-in Coupon (Check-in Deals) in Japan. Facebook Japan Holds An New Coupon Service Launch Event In Shibuya The problem arouse when Recruit[E], Japan’s largest coupon business player, registered spot information of restaurants on behalf of restaurant owners without enough notification. Hitoshi Nakamura(twitter id:… Continue reading Facebook Spot Information Is Jacked By A Giant Japanese Coupon Business Player

Japan’s Daily Coupon Market: Is Groupon About To Lose Its Top Position To Ponpare?

Japan’s market for daily coupon services is heating up. It has been pretty much a two-horse race for months now, with Groupon Japan as the top player in the market and Recruit’s Ponpare as a close second. In April, for example, Groupon Japan was estimated to have racked up $18.6 million in sales, while Ponpare… Continue reading Japan’s Daily Coupon Market: Is Groupon About To Lose Its Top Position To Ponpare?

Groupon Japan And Recruit Pompare Show Strong Recovery After The Quake

Japanese flash coupon vertical search Coupon-JP has just released an April version of sales estimation of major social coupon services [J, pdf] after March report skipped by the quake. Groupon Japan, which started by US Groupon purchasing a local clone last summer, has been leading the market but got damaged by terrible osechigate at the… Continue reading Groupon Japan And Recruit Pompare Show Strong Recovery After The Quake

Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected

Daily deal coupon search service Coupon.jp released [J] their February research on Japanese daily deal coupon service sales by calculating each site’s coupon prices and number of sold tickets. On their chart, No.2 Pompare, run by Recruit, shows 30% growth to be about 70% of No.1 Groupon Japan’s sales. It was about half in January… Continue reading Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected

Groupon Slows Down After New Year Osechi Incident In Japan

One month after the Groupon Japan’s New Year celebration food Osechi delivery trouble, Japanese consumers mind seem to be away from daily deal coupon services, even with the Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s video apology. A vertical coupon search service Coupon-jp issued a research [J]. There, they tracked all coupon sold on Groupon Japan and other… Continue reading Groupon Slows Down After New Year Osechi Incident In Japan

500,000 People Needed To Get The Deal; Pompare Is Selling A Challenging Coupon

Groupon Japan’s Rival, Ponpare[J] has started to sell a special coupon today. You can get Häagen-Dazs ice cream ticket for 2 mini cups by paying only 100 yen ( about a dollar and quarter).  This means you can get 84% discounts but what makes this coupon drawing attention is the number of sign up required… Continue reading 500,000 People Needed To Get The Deal; Pompare Is Selling A Challenging Coupon

Connection Search: Facebook Japan And Recruit Launch Job Service For College Grads

Facebook has over 500 million members worldwide, but only 1.4 million of these live in Japan. The company established a subsidiary in Tokyo earlier this year, localized its site in 2008, and released a special version optimized for Japanese cell phones a few weeks back. And now it seems to be time to partner up… Continue reading Connection Search: Facebook Japan And Recruit Launch Job Service For College Grads

Recruit’s New Coupon Site Troubled, Raises Suspicious On Groupon Model

Recruit, an online-and-paper publication company (Asiajin) has been teasing its Groupon clone with Twitter lottery [J] of 20,000 yen to 100,000 yen ($1,100) prize, finally launched Pomparade [J] today, but their memorable first coupon had an issue. The first coupon seller is Ocean Casita, an Italian restaurant which locates at the 59th floor of Sunshine… Continue reading Recruit’s New Coupon Site Troubled, Raises Suspicious On Groupon Model