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Inc. Yahoo! Japan Corporation (1996–2023) Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It 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 was a founding member of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE, at the time named Japan e-business association), a Japanese e-business association led by Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, in February 2010; Rakuten later withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to make JANE become a rival to Keidanren.
Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for news programs) and NNS (for non-news programs). Except for Okinawa Prefecture, [ d ] these two networks cover the whole of Japan. Nippon TV is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo'' and is the first commercial broadcaster in Asia.
LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社, Rain Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha, lit. ' Line Yahoo Corporation '), trading as LYC, [1] is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, [2] founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo!
Japanese broadcasting and newspapers usually use a modified 12-hour notation in which midnight is 午前0時 (0 am) and noon is 午後0時 (0 pm) and, for example, "quarter past midnight" is 午前0時15分. The AM/PM signs are also used, while the sign may be placed either before or after the time (AM10:00 or 10:00AM). Using the Japanese ...
January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in Yahoo Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time). [12]
NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) is the international radio arm of NHK. It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news, current affairs, cultural, and educative radio program focusing on Japan and Asia, for a daily total of 65 hours of broadcasts. Radio Japan provides two main feeds: The General Service broadcasts worldwide in Japanese and English.
Yoshiko Miwa, at 110 years old, is the oldest living American person of Japanese descent and shares the things that have allowed her to live such a long life.