According to Amazon.com’s annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon had a great year in 2012 with the sales grew by 18.6% to 7.8 billion dollars, which is about 730 billion yen. This was a big achievement for the global online retailer, who first entered the Japanese market in 2000. Note that… Continue reading…
The traffic and the conversions are triggered by different reasons, and not necessarily correlates. Just because more people are online in the certain market, or more people view your site don’t always impact on the business transactions. The recent research done by The Nielsen Company in Japan shows a good picture of the online shopping… Continue reading…
When I created AJPR back in 1998, there really wasn’t a concept of the global SEO out there. If thought of at all it was considered more of the localization project than the search engine marketing project, and that the SEO on language specific pages was an afterthought in their marketing process. Localization and the… Continue reading…
The survey results show that more than 60% of Japanese older than 50 years old want to switch their mobile phone to smart phone, and 11.4% of them have a plan to switch to smart phone in near future. Continue reading…
March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami related information in English. Will update the content as new information becomes available. Continue reading…