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This report is a must read for anyone who is interested in the Japan market – it is also completely in Japanese!
“Massive Display and Digital Signage 2010” edition, a comprehensive industry overview with profiles of all the key players.
This yearbook was initially launched when Japan led the world in outdoor LED screen technology and Sci [...]

Digital Signage in Tokyo Subway

Vanten and Quividi team up on Digital Signage Measurement and launch the first integrated measurement service in Japan.
Vanten K.K. (Tokyo, Japan, CEO: Neil van Wouw) and Quividi (Paris, France, CEO: Olivier Duizabo) recently formed a strategic partnership where Vanten will act as an integration and sales partner to assist Quividi’s entry in the Japanese Digital [...]

POPAI Japan are holding an ‘Instore Media and Digital Signage’ event on July 31st.
The seminar will feature interesting speakers making inroads into Japan’s instore market. Sony, B2B Solutions Departmenrt will lead off the event with a speech about their Mirutokuchannel service. The service targets supermarkets and provides value added content such as sale information, recipes, [...]

Digital Signage Japan 2009 which was part of this years InterOP at Makuhari Messe was a big success. Here we see huge crowds thronging the SCALA/Vanten booth…

Se our other coverage of the event here

Digital Signage Japan 2009 was a big success, attracting 130,993 visitors. Although the event was held simultaneously with Interop 2009 and Internet Media Convergence 2009, it was by all accounts, the busiest of the three expos. Attendees swamped the booths at DSJ 2009, keeping exhibitors busy for the entire 3 day show.
The event was produced [...]

The Digital Signage Consortium of Japan is a 141 member organization dedicated to promoting and advancing digital signage in (you guessed it) Japan. Co-Founded and run by Board Member and Director Yasuji Eguchi, a digital media consultant with deep contacts in Tokyo’s Tech, Media and Start up circles. Mr. Eguchi reports that the DSC (as [...]

In just two weeks Digital Signage Japan 2009 event will begin. It is a part of the larger Interop Media Convergence event. This is the first year they have broken out Digital Signage as a seperate event so I am really looking forward to it. I will be covering the event for DailyDOOH and will [...]

Just two and a half years after entering the Japan market, ClearChannel Outdoor may have decided to close up shop. The world’s largest outdoor advertising company, with nearly 1 million displays worldwide and operating in 49 countries, is we believe leaving the world’s third largest advertising market.
The out of home behemoth began operations in Japan [...]

Last weekend Toshiba unveiled an exciting new Digital Signage interactive game in Tokyo.
The game is played using the mobile phones of participants who compete to paint the most squares on the screen, while simultaneously hunting for Toshiba’s way to cute mascot called Pala-Chan. 
Held at Tokyo’s famous Yodobashi Camera Flagship store in the Akihabara district,  passers [...]