We’ve had another fun week here at SD, doing our best to bring you interesting tech stories going down in Japan. But in case you missed any of it, here’s a wrap up below. Readers on mobile might want to check them out over on Readlists or in ePub format.
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Featured
- Why Angry Birds prefer not to be early birds in Japan
- Japan’s Designclue wants to build Asia’s largest logo crowdsourcing market
- Meet 4 of Japan’s hottest online fashion malls
- Trouble managing your Facebook page? Help is on the way this spring, from Japan
Business
- GREE and Yahoo Japan set up joint venture for mobile social game development
- Google Street View broadens its horizons, crashes a party in Japan
- Despite slower speeds, NTT Docomo quick to surpass 10 million LTE subscribers
- Japan’s mobile wars intensify: Docomo moves up ultra-high speed data launch to 2015
- Google Hangouts recruits Asian pop stars for new ‘A-Pop’ initiative,
Design
- Japanese startups find creativity at Crowdworks
- Meet the Japanese company that’s making a sign language keyboard
Fun Apps
- Tower defense game ‘Battle Cats’ now rules the Japanese app store
- Japanese iPhone spy game turns English study into exciting covert mission
- Japanese prime minister takes on jumping monkey role in new iPhone game
- Ninja Camera: Japan’s top photo app is perfect for perverts
- Mixi tries again: New photo printing service ‘Nohana’ targets parents in Japan
Standout Startups
- Translation start-up Conyac plans presence in San Francisco, now offers services for businesses
- Singapore’s Intraix partners with Smart Integration on smarter home energy management in Japan