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April 1, 1996. Current status. Online. Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [1] According to The Japan Times, as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan.
Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [2]
Yahoo! stock doubled in price in the last month of 1999. On January 3, 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, Yahoo! stock closed at a high of $118.75 a share. Sixteen days later, shares in Yahoo! Japan became the first stock in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time).
Yahoo Japan is one of the country’s biggest search engines, but it competes with Google, and its other businesses, including e-commerce, are up against rivals like Rakuten and Alibaba.
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Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4] [5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications .
Yahoo Japan, the last enclave of GeoCities, is scrapping the beloved website-hosting service. In March 2019 -- 22 years after its original launch -- GeoCities will be extinct, according to Quartz.
Headquarters. Chuo, Tokyo. , Japan. Website. www.fromjapan.co.jp. FROM JAPAN Limited （株式会社フロムジャパン Kabushikigaisha Furomu Japan）is a Japanese eCommerce site which provides international services to purchase and ship items from major Japanese online shopping and auction sites on behalf of users living outside of Japan.