Yahoo! Japan Corporation (???????, Yaf? Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese internet company originally formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Altaba, (formerly Yahoo!) and the Japanese company SoftBank. It is headquartered at Kioi Tower in the Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho complex in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Yahoo! Japan's web portal is the most visited website in Japan, and its internet services are mostly dominant in the country.
Video Yahoo! Japan
History
Yahoo! and SoftBank formed Yahoo! Japan in January 1996 to set up the first web portal in Japan. Yahoo! Japan went live on April 1, 1996.
Yahoo! Japan was listed on JASDAQ in November 1997. In January 2000, it became the first stock in Japanese history to trade for more than ¥100 million per share. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 2003 and became part of the Nikkei 225 stock market index in 2005.
Yahoo! Japan acquired the naming rights for the Fukuoka Dome in 2005, renaming the dome as the "Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome". The "Yahoo Dome" is the home field for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional baseball team majority owned by SoftBank.
Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology. In exchange, Google receives user activity data from Yahoo! Japan's various products.
In 2016, Verizon Communications announced the purchase of Yahoo!'s core internet business. Yahoo! Japan is not affected as it is held as a separate 35% stake, and will therefore stay with Yahoo! Inc (renamed Altaba Inc.) and SoftBank. Yahoo! had been declining in popularity and economically since the late 2000s, but the situation has been quite the opposite for Yahoo! Japan, which continues to dominate Japan's internet industry.
Following the sale Yahoo! Japan will continue to use the name Yahoo! under license from Verizon Communications, the current owner of Yahoo!'s core assets.
Maps Yahoo! Japan
Industry body affiliation
Yahoo! Japan was a founding member of Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani's Japan e-business association in February 2010, but after Rakuten withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to become the Japan Association of New Economy as a rival to Keidanren, Yahoo! Japan withdrew from the e-business association in March 2012. It joined Keidanren in July 2012.
Design
Yahoo! Japan continues to use the classic website layout and logo that was used by Yahoo! internationally before modern redesigns in 2009 and 2013 respectively. However, it is translated into Japanese.
Services
Yahoo! Japan Mail
Yahoo! Japan Mail maintains the classic look of Yahoo! Mail, but remains a separate service operated in Japan. Another notable change is the 10 GB storage limit, contrary to Yahoo! Mail's 1 TB of storage and its former unlimited storage offering.
GyaO
GyaO is a Japanese video on demand service by Yahoo! Japan.
Programs include:
- Calimero (2014 CGI series)
- Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel
- Intrigue in the Bakumatsu - Irohanihoheto
- Jormungand
- Kyorochan
- Musashi Gundoh
- Nyanpire
- Real Drive
- The World of Golden Eggs
Gallery
Subsidiaries
- Official website
- Yahoo! Japan at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- ASKUL Corporation
- Carview Corporation
- Dynatech inc.
- FirstServer, Inc.
- GYAO Corporation (GyaO)
- IDC Frontier Inc.
- Netrust, Ltd
- Qubital Data Science Co., Ltd.
- Synergy Marketing, Inc.
- Techbase VietNam Company Limited
- TRILL, Inc.
- ValueCommerce Co., Ltd.
- Wordleaf Corporation
- YJ Capital Inc.
- YJ Card Corporation
- YJFX, Inc.
- Y's Insurance Inc.
- Y's Sports Inc.
External links
- Yahoo! Japan (in Japanese)
- Company profile (in English)
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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