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Western equivalents in Japan
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According to Tokyo-based blogger, Serkan Toto, the following are the Japanese equivalents of western web services:

I) General web services

Google?
Yahoo! Japan.

Wikipedia?
Wikipedia Japan.

Facebook?
Mixi.

Flickr?
Yahoo! Japan Photos.

Digg?
Minna no Topics

LinkedIn?
No equivalent.


Youtube?
Nico Nico Douga.

deli.cio.us?
Hatena Bookmark. [ENG]

monster.com?
Rikunavi.

Second Life?
Meet me.
II) Blogs

Techcrunch?
Asiajin.

Huffington Post?
No equivalent.


tmz.com?
Zakzak.

Boing Boing?
Zaeega.

Gizmodo?
Gizmodo Japan.

Technorati?
Kizasi.

Twitter?
Twitter Japan.
III) Web tools:

Gmail?
Yahoo! Japan Mail
.

Blogger?
FC2.

the iTunes store?
iTunes Japan
(Lismo for mobile downloads which accounted for 90% of
all music downloads
in 2007 in Japan).

BitTorrent?
Winny.

Opera?
Sleipnir [ENG] and Lunascape [ENG].

Amazon?
Rakuten.

Ebay?
Yahoo! Japan Auctions.
IV) Web Companies

Federated Media?
Agile Media Network. [ENG]

Sequoia Capital?
NGI Group. [ENG]

Admob?
Cirius. [ENG]


Links: About Japan

Demographics
E-commerce

Culture
Internet Landscape
Mobile Landscape
Links: Media Landscape

Traditional Media
Social Media

Links: Case Studies

Nissan
Sanyo
P&G
Sony
Disney Mobile