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2005 October – Began operating as a proxy service for Japanese shopping sites; 2006 – Business partnership with Yahoo! Hong Kong; 2011 June – Headquarters moved to 2-7-4 Aomi, Koto, Tokyo; September – Introduced a service for Japanese E-Commerce sites to sell their products internationally by "Simply place a banner to sell overseas". 2012
The online shopping marketplace Rakuten Shopping Mall (楽天市場, Rakuten Ichiba) was officially launched on May 1, 1997. [11] The company had six employees and the website had 13 merchants. [12] The name was changed to Rakuten in June 1999. [11] The Japanese word rakuten means 'optimism'. [13]
Two shop locations operate in Kyushu: Mandarake Fukuoka is located in Tenjin, [20] and Mandarake Kokura is located in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū. [10] [21] Mandarake also operates an online storefront in both Japanese and English. The store ships items both domestically within Japan, and internationally to 83 countries.
Yodobashi Camera was founded by Terukazu Fujisawa (藤沢 昭和, Fujisawa Terukazu) in 1960. The original product line up focused on cameras and photographic equipment. Fujisawa adopted a technique of opening up the entrances of his first stores in Shinjuku, Ueno and Yokohama to allow a large number of the available products to be seen at a glance, facilitating high volume sales at low pr
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Founded by Takao Yasuda, Don Quijote opened its first store in Suginami, Tokyo in September 1980 under its original name, Just Co. Originally a retail store, Just Co. quickly switched to wholesale in 1982. [4] [5] [10] The company opened its first "Don Quijote" named store in Fuchu, Tokyo in March 1989. With the name change, the store also ...
Marui Co., Ltd. (株式会社丸井, Kabushiki-gaisha Marui) is a Japanese multinational retail company which operates a chain of department stores in Tokyo as well in other major Japanese cities. They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories, which are aimed at the 25–35 age range.
Wako Co., Ltd. (株式会社和光, Kabushiki-gaisha Wakō) is a department store retailer in Japan, whose best known store (commonly known as the Ginza Wako) is at the heart of the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. This store is famous for its watches, jewellery, chocolate, porcelain, dishware, and handbags, as well as upscale foreign goods ...