Line did not disclose who the market’s best performers are, but it did say that the makers of the top ten selling individual sticker sets earned an average of JPY 50.5 million (about $421,000). Many ...

Mobile messaging platform Line, which is gunning for a billion registered users by 2015 and is also reportedly considering an IPO later this year, has added a new feature aimed at boosting engagement ...

One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda has temporarily waived part of the copyright to allow fans to post and profit from from fan created LINE stickers. One Piece fans and fan artists will now be able to ...

Kanahei was 17 years old when she started drawing tiny digital pictures that her high-school friends could text to one another. They only had feature phones back then, so the images had to be simple ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Rumors of yet another messaging app being sold pinned Naver's LINE app to Japanese phone carrier, SoftBank. The app maker denied the claim yesterday, and today (instead) announced that it's adding ...

Japanese messaging app Line is gearing up for a massive listing in Tokyo and New York at the end of this week that is set to raise 115.5 billion yen ($1.12 billion) for the company. Line confirmed ...