Yahoo! Japan
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| Type | Public |
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| Traded as | TYO: 4689 JASDAQ: 4689 |
| Founded | January 31, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Midtown Tower, 9-7-1, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
| No. of locations | 2 (Nagoya and Osaka) |
| Key people | Masayoshi Son (Chairman) Masahiro Inoue (President and CEO) |
| Revenue |  ¥292,423 million (FY 2010) |
| Operating income | ¥159,604 million (FY 2010) |
| Net income | ¥92,174 million (FY 2010) |
| Total assets | ¥471,745 million (FY 2010) |
| Total equity | ¥385,105 million (FY 2010) |
| Owner | SoftBank (40.16%), Yahoo! (33.41%) |
| Employees | 3,876 (as of June 30, 2011) |
| Subsidiaries | Netrust, Ltd. |
| Website | yahoo.co.jp |
| Alexa rank | 12 (August 2011[update])[1] |
| Type of site | web portal |
| Registration | optional |
| Available in | Japanese |
| Launched | April 1, 1996 |
| Current status | active |
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Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社 Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese internet company formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! and the Japanese internet company SoftBank. It is headquartered at Midtown Tower in the Tokyo Midtown complex in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo.[2]
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- ^ "Yahoo.co.jp Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ "Company Info." Yahoo! Japan. Retrieved on April 30, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Yahoo! Japan (Japanese)
- Company Profile (English)
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