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Japanese brand Muji combines online browsing data, in-store purchasing history, and real-time inventory updates to deliver personalized coupons and timely push notifications via its mobile app.

While some Chinese consumers shifted their luxury purchases to Japan to take advantage of the weaker yen, that trend faded slightly during the quarter as brands instituted price hikes to protect their margins. The big picture: LVMH remains bullish on China, mainly because it sees an opportunity to grow alongside the country’s emerging upper middle class.

But the company has other problems—namely the fact that its Japanese parent is facing a takeover bid from Circle K operator Alimentation Couche-tard, which recently raised its offer to $47 billion. While the acquisition is unlikely to pass muster with antitrust regulators, it will heighten the pressure on 7-Eleven to deliver on its international turnaround.

Another report found that music content is less popular on Instagram in Japan compared with TikTok and YouTube Shorts—a gap Instagram is likely eager to address. Zooming out: TikTok recently shuttered its TikTok Music service to focus on streaming service integrations. Spotify has attempted to capitalize on that move by adding podcast comments to boost engagement.

Japan, meanwhile, will bring up the rear in both metrics (37.4% and 43.3%). This lower-than-expected showing stems from Japan’s population skewing heavily toward older cohorts. Gaming was already extremely popular in South Korea before 2020, then growth spiked two more times.

The Sandbox, a company that offers tools to build virtual worlds backed by blockchain technology, had roughly 40% of its businesses based in Asia-Pacific in 2022, led by Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan, according to the company in an interview with Nikkei.

The survey was conducted in July 2024 across nearly 6,000 respondents from the US, Canada, India, Brazil, Mexico, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Japan. Coupons over email: Other studies largely support the GetApp findings.

And third place was Japanese rock band GLAY in their home country with 200,000 people. It's not till you get to fourth place where you're getting some, I would argue familiar names, but maybe these guys are familiar just outside of the west, in fourth place, all of those folks had more attendance than Paul McCartney in fourth place with 184,000 folks saw him perform at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio.

Personalized Promotions tools to help advertisers offer discounts in markets including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, and Japan. A new bidding feature in Performance+ that lets advertisers maximize the overall value of campaigns, not just clicks or conversions, giving them more control to tailor their strategies.

Apple Intelligence will only support US English when it launches, and Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish speakers won’t get support until sometime next year. X (formerly Twitter) has only 29 people on its content moderation team who speak proficient Spanish, and two who speak Italian. That team has 1,535 English speakers.