Yahoo.co.jp Biography & Web Analysis

Yahoo! Japan Corporation is a Japanese internet company originally formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! (later divested by Verizon into Altaba) and the Japanese organization SoftBank. It is headquartered at Kioi Tower in the Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho complex in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Yahoo! Japan's web-based portal is the most visited site in Japan until, and its internet providers are mostly dominant in the country. Yahoo! and SoftBank formed Yahoo! Japan in January 1996 to set up the first web-based portal in Japan. Yahoo! Japan went live on April 1, 1996. 

Yahoo! Japan was recorded on JASDAQ in November 1997. In January 2000, it became the first stock in Japanese history to trade for more than ¥100 million for every offer. The organization 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, an expert baseball team majority owned by SoftBank. 

Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been founded on Google's search technology. In exchange, Google receives user activity information from Yahoo! Japan's different products. 

In 2017, Verizon Communications bought the core internet business of America-based Yahoo!, and merged them into Oath, Inc. Yahoo! Japan was not affected. It continued as a joint venture between Softbank and what remained from Yahoo! Inc., renamed Altaba. Yahoo! had been declining in popularity and economically since the late 2000s, but the circumstance has been a remarkable opposite for Yahoo! Japan, which keeps on dominating Japan's internet industry. Following the sale, Yahoo! Japan will continue to use the name "Yahoo!" under license from Verizon Communications. 

In July 2018, SoftBank purchased $2 billion worth of shares in Yahoo! Japan from Altaba, expanding its stake to 48.17 percent. Yahoo! Japan, in turn, purchased almost a similar amount of stock from SoftBank. In September 2018, Altaba sold the entirety of its remaining shares in Yahoo! Japan for roughly $4.3 billion. In 2019, these company would be merged with Naver Corporation subsidiary, Line Corporation and it is required to completed in March 2021.