Native name | ヤフー株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Yafū! kabushiki gaisha |
Company type | Public KK |
Founded | January 11, 1996 |
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Defunct | October 1, 2023 |
Fate | Merged with Z Holdings and Line Corporation |
Successor | LY Corporation |
Headquarters | 1–3, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
Number of locations | 2 (Nagoya and Osaka) |
Key people |
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Revenue | ¥292,423 million (FY 2010) |
¥159,604 million (FY 2010) | |
¥92,174 million (FY 2010) | |
Total assets | ¥471,745 million (FY 2010) |
Total equity | ¥385,105 million (FY 2010) |
Number of employees | 5,518 (As of September 30, 2015)[1] |
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Subsidiaries | Netrust, Ltd. ASKUL Corporation |
Website | about |
Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status.[2] In 2019, it changed to a holding company structure and came under Z Holdings, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group. In 2021, Line Corporation also became part of ZHD, and in 2023, Yahoo! Japan merged with ZHD and its five subsidiaries, including Line Corp, to form LY Corporation. It operated Yahoo! Japan.