We have all been enjoying the translations and prices provided by members from Yahoo Japan... but Will Yahoo survive in Japan. Now that Yahoo has closed
auctions in the the US, I wonder if any of you who have been watching Japan have any insight into the number of users, and the health of the venue?
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Will Yahoo Japan close, or is Japan a huge market?
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Will Yahoo Japan close, or is Japan a huge market? |
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Posts: 989 (08/31/2007 09:25 AM) |
if the dealers in japan continue with the " will not ship out of japan " policy. yes it will continue. ebay wants the worldwide audience.
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Posts: 237 (08/31/2007 10:10 AM) |
Yahoo Japan started doing auctions in Japan before Ebay Japan could get in on the game. By the time Ebay Japan did start up, everybody was already using Yahoo
Japan. Ebay Japan tried for a few years to catch up, but never did, and eventually gave up and closed down. The Yahoo Japan auctions are now going stronger
than ever.
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Posts: 2143 (08/31/2007 11:27 AM) |
The market in Japan was so small for eBay, only 25,000 listings, it was surprising they even tried, they closed many years ago (I think it was 2001)
It is hard to know how many listings have been on Yahoo, I have not been able to find any figures on this venture. Or how much Japanese listing is done in English on eBay US. Yahoo Auctions is actually a Japanese company owned in majority by Softbank. It is listed on the Nikkei Exchange and discloses and reports its own separate earnings. Yahoo in the US does own a substantial part, but does not control the company, or its operations. I was just wondering if Yahoo really is successful or if it was just a showcase for other Softbank operations in Japan.
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Posts: 2181 (08/31/2007 02:14 PM) |
I would say they are VERY successfull.
Here is the section for Audi/Video goodies, please note Photo equipment is in bottom of the page! As a subcategory in the Audio-Video page: http://list3.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/23632-category.html?alocale=0jp Scanning tru the different pages of three categories, Video, Audio and Photo equipment, I see an average of 15 pages of ads per subcategory, each page contains 25 items. Considering there are many many many subcategories per category and also considering there are some subcategories with more than 30 pages of stuff, I estimate 4500 items under the Nikon brand and a staggering 100,000 items under the photo category! This is only the Photo category in Yahoo Japan Auctions we are talking about, The term Yahoo Japan describes a much bigger entity that cover new items from different manufaturers as well,. ie.Amazon site on the web. The "Auctions" site is just a subcategory of the main site. The main page of Yahoo Japan is here, check it out:: http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ The Yahoo Japan site contains everything such as books, clothes, getting email address, meeting people, forums.... You name it,they got it! The Auction page of the Yahoo Japan--- http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/ --- has been doing much better than they imagined and has been the equivelant of ebay in Japan, catering to the 120 some million Japenese,most of whom don't understand much English. Kiu
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Posts: 237 (08/31/2007 06:47 PM) |
Practically everyone I know has Yahoo Japan set as their homepage. It's "the" source for news, weather info, train timetables, etc. etc. etc.
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Posts: 2143 (09/04/2007 07:32 PM) |
So the answer is that Yahoo has life outside of the West, more than one could have expected?
Wonder why Yahoo is so popular? I always hear from friends in Japan that internet access was more difficult to obtain than here, especially reasonably priced homepages. Jon is Yahoo an ISP as well?
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Posts: 237 (09/04/2007 08:45 PM) |
Yes. Yahoo BB (i.e. broadband) is one of the biggest ISPs.
In Japan, internet access has improved drastically in recent years. 10MB to 100MB optical fibre connections are now the norm. And cheap too. I really need to upgrade .... |
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Posts: 237 (09/05/2007 09:21 PM) |
There's a big typhoon heading directly towards Tokyo/Yokohama! It's due in about 12 hours or so. No need to worry though, these things are never as
powerful as Category 5 hurricanes. You can see the projected path on YJ at the link below.
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/typhoon/typha.html |
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Posts: 2181 (09/05/2007 10:13 PM) |
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Posts: 237 (09/06/2007 12:33 AM) |
Not only is it heading for Japan, its heading directly up the Izu Peninsula and will pass just to the west of Tokyo/Yokohama. Since typhoons spin
anticlockwise, that's pretty much a direct hit.
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