Online shopping giant Rakuten announces their new android Rakuten Bank App for DoCoMo and SoftBank users: http://bit.ly/GJWYo3

Mobile Marketing Data Labs new survey on Japanese app. developer strategies: iOS vs. ‘droid – Paid vs. Free etc: http://bit.ly/GFYU09

MMRI reports Japan smartphone sales in fiscal 2011 = 23M units, 3x YoY, with android now 60% total market share: http://bit.ly/GFfu1Q

DoCoMo announces they’ve passed 60M subscriber threshold, see the milestone history from their debut in Dec. 1979: http://bit.ly/GFzkZn

KDDI announces super cool Multi-View 3D music video app. check out the online demo clip here = the future of MTV..!! http://bit.ly/GLuvwD

DeNA does partnership with SINA, operator of http://Weibo.com – China’s #1 microblog platform, for Mobage: http://bit.ly/xJx4xU