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We all talked about how popular SNS and video sharing became in Japan in 2007. As the rest of the world starting to pay attention to these as new means of marketing, “2007 Web services usage survey” done by Japan.Internet.com hints that Japanese are already looking for the next “thing”.

According to the survey, BBS (bulletin board services), Net auction and surprisingly the Video sharing lost some popularity in 2007 from the previous year. Continue Reading »

According to Impress R&D’s “2007 Internet White Paper”, 82,266,000 Japanese, which was more than 60% of Japanese population, were online as of Spring 2007. It also shows that more than 50% of Japanese Internet population are on broad band.

NetRatings’ reported last year that more than 2 million Japanese were using YouTube Continue Reading »