While Japanese products from cars to TVs are known throughout the world, the country's Internet services have so far been conspicuously absent abroad.
But now some Internet businesses are trying to break into overseas markets on the back of success at home.
Leading mobile game developer DeNA Co. plans to offer Mobage-Town, a service combining a social networking site and gaming for mobile phones, in the United States by the end of September.
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