Twitter is turning Japanese. Or at least trying to. The popular microblogging service on Thursday launched a Japan-based mobile version, hoping to penetrate a country where other U.S. social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have failed to capture much ground. Japanese is Twitter’s sole foreign language platform so far, and the company’s efforts here indicate it’s serious about making it big in Japan — and eventually all over the world.

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