{"id":1625,"date":"2008-12-26T03:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2008-12-26T03:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T18:05:58","slug":"japanese-company-expands-to-india-will-sell-mobile-games-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/japanese-company-expands-to-india-will-sell-mobile-games-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese company expands to India, will sell mobile games there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1626\" title=\"nihon_enterprise\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nihon_enterprise.jpg\" alt=\"nihon_enterprise\" width=\"160\" height=\"72\" \/><br \/>\nIndia with its massive population of 1.1 billion people and nearly 300 million mobile phone users (second only to China) should be a natural target for any company that&#8217;s in the web or mobile web business.<br \/>\nBut still, relatively few companies, for example from Japan, are seeing the subcontinent as a lucrative target market, at least for now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nihon-e.co.jp\/english\">Nihon Enterprise<\/a>, a Tokyo-based mobile content provider, however, already made its move.<br \/>\nThe company, which is listed in the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, chose Indian content distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astutesystemstech.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Astute Systems Technology<\/a> as the partner for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-direct.ne.jp\/public\/japanese\/uj\/pdf\/10104829\/20081224165189.pdf\">delivering its mobile video games to customers in that country<\/a> (J, PDF).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1627\" title=\"psychic_strike\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/psychic_strike-400x235.jpg\" alt=\"psychic_strike\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" \/><br \/>\nThe title of the first game is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-direct.ne.jp\/japanese\/uj\/pdf\/10104829\/00030749.pdf\">Psychic Spike<\/a> (J, PDF), an action scroller made in 2004. The game will be available for download in English (price: 49 rupees\/93 Yen\/1 USD\/0.75 Euro).<br \/>\nNihon Enterprise says one new title will be offered in India every month. The company is already delivering content in China and Thailand and currently employs 160 people in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India with its massive population of 1.1 billion people and nearly 300 million mobile phone users (second only to China) should be a natural target for any company that&#8217;s in the web or mobile web business. But still, relatively few companies, for example from Japan, are seeing the subcontinent as a lucrative target market, at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/japanese-company-expands-to-india-will-sell-mobile-games-there\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese company expands to India, will sell mobile games there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[2599],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-nihon-enterprise","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}