Yeah, that looks like it. Note the "There is a long way to go but most basic functionality is there." Sounds like they only recently started working on it, and

Yeah, that looks like it. Note the "There is a long way to go but most basic functionality is there." Sounds like they only recently started working on it, and given the difficulty of unseating entrenched social networking sites, I'd say Facebook's got their work cut out for them. They'd have to provide something that's clearly not available from the existing sites. The best way to do this would probably be to convince the Japanese of the value in being a member of a social networking site connected to your real life, since competing with existing services on their own turf is going to be very difficult. However, I don't know if the Japanese would be interested in such a service.