Tonchidot has raised a $12M second round of funding, coming from DCM, Itochu, KDDI and Jafco, for their AR platform http://bit.ly/b9jvk4

The Bubble Motion voice-driven platform offering is planning to roll-out Japan with a new deal to deploy via KDDI http://bit.ly/b34BCS

Sharp has announced it’s new e-reader, with a sly grin, called Galapagos along cloud-based content services. http://bit.ly/9ajRZP

Here’s a fairly detailed comparison of the Japan vs U.S. operators standard offerings for voice and data pricing plans http://bit.ly/a5Pw4C

FaceBook has implemented the ubiquitous QR Code for Japan mobile users to ease the sign-up and log-in process http://bit.ly/cGvPrW

MocoSpace landed $3.5M investment from Softbank for browser-based mobile games. The Boston-based claims 14M users. http://bit.ly/b1SBuh