Yahoo Japan Corp., operator of the nation's second-most popular website, has announced a new web-based gaming platform called Game Plus. The new service, which started Tuesday in Japan with 39 games, ...

Although they have similar names and operate Web portals with a variety of services, Yahoo Japan Corp. is in many ways a very different company from Yahoo Inc. Yahoo's profits have been falling ...

TOKYO -- Yahoo Japan will strengthen its online hotel booking service via two recent acquisitions, hoping to capture demand from foreigners visiting Japan.

Yahoo Japan, the joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo, has launched a bid to buy Ikyu, a popular online travel and restaurant reservation platform in Japan, for around $830 million. Yahoo Japan is ...

TOKYO -- Yahoo Japan is considering having another company provide its search engine technology, which is currently supplied by a Google affiliate, Nikkei has learned.

Yahoo! Japan Corporation has been facing intense competition in the e-commerce industry from incumbents Amazon and Rakuten. It has been expanding its footprint in Yahoo's online industry by ...

Yahoo Japan Corp. will review contracts with media organizations that provide content to its Yahoo News platform after the Fair Trade Commission warned that the company could be in an unfair ...

A new games venture centred around browser-based gaming has launched in the East, courtesy of Yahoo Japan. Game Plus is a new platform that offers users HTML5-developed games as well as larger, ...

Verizon (VZ) has agreed to sell the rights to Yahoo branding and technology in Japan to Softbank's (SFTBY) Z Holdings Corporation (ZHD Group). The transaction is expected to generate 178.5 billion yen ...

TOKYO—A billionaire entrepreneur’s midlife crisis helped SoftBank Group Corp.9984-1.91%decrease; red down pointing triangle affiliate Yahoo Japan Corp.4689 1.10%increase; green up pointing triangle ...

Tokyo, Japan, 28th August 2019—Japanese internet company Yahoo! Japan Corporation announced today a complete ban on ivory trade on all its e-commerce platforms. The ban will enter into effect in ...