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Yahoo! Japan was a founding member of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE, at the time named Japan e-business association), a Japanese e-business association led by Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, in February 2010; Rakuten later withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to make JANE become a rival to Keidanren.
NHK World-Japan: online news (text) and live video stream of the rolling news channel; NHK World Radio Japan: live radio streams, podcasts, and archive programming; Learn Japanese: re-edited versions of series, such as Basic Japanese for You and Brush Up Your Japanese. Only a limited number of programs are available online for free. [11]
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, majorly owned by SoftBank. Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology. In exchange ...
On April 7, 2009, Yahoo! Japan announced that it would acquire 51% of the shares of Gyao, which had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Usen, from Usen for 529 million yen, making it a subsidiary. The acquisition was aimed at building the largest video platform in Japan by integrating it with Yahoo! Video, which is owned by Yahoo! Japan.
Its predecessor, Radio Tokyo, Inc., was established in 1951 as a general broadcaster.On April 1, 1955, it launched as the second privately owned TV station in Japan, following Nippon Television, and simultaneously became the only TV and radio station in Tokyo (spun off in 2001).
Upon its introduction, the Japanese government hoped to have 80% of the country equipped with the J-Alert system by 2009. [2] However, by 2011, only 36% of the nation had been covered. Cost had been a major factor; the initial installation is estimated to be around 430 million yen, and the yearly maintenance is estimated to be around 10 million ...
TVer is a Japanese ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service. It was established in October 2015 by the five commercial broadcasters in Tokyo: Nippon Television, TV Asahi, TBS Television, TV Tokyo, and Fuji Television. It is a service that offers free internet streaming of TV programs after they have aired, with the availability period ...
Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever “megaquake advisory” last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main ...