A well-known expert on the Far Eastern markets, Serkan Toto, in his personal blog, cited some data from a study by the Tokyo MM Research Institute concerning the development of the tablet market in the Land of the Rising Sun.
According to him, during the 2012 fiscal year, 5.68 million tablets were shipped in the country, which is 104% more than a year earlier. The largest share still falls on the iPad (52.5%), however, there is a significant increase in the share of Android-based devices, which has already reached 42.4%.
Asus is the leader among Android tablet manufacturers. The main factor in its entry into the leading position was the release of Google Nexus 7.
Despite the rapid growth of this market, most Japanese developers are still mainly focused on developing games for smartphones, and are not going to start creating special HD versions of their products yet. And they can be understood: the total number of mobile handsets (feature phones and smartphones) in this market is 5-6 times more than the number of tablets.
A curious fact: in Russia, mobile app developers earn more on tablets than on smartphones.