This report summarises the findings from various sources in relation to the search and social media landscape in Japan. It covers the composition of the Japanese search market, focusing on the leading search engines, Yahoo! Japan and Google. Moreover, it lists the top Social Network Sites in Japan before examining how major global social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are performing compared to "mixi" - one of Japan's most popular social network sites. Also, the report includes lists of popular Japanese blog providers and video hosting services. Information is presented in graphs and tables, including comments.
