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 The current wordmark matches the pre-2009 English Yahoo! logo. |
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Type of site
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web portal |
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| Available in | Japanese |
| Traded as | : |
| Founded | April 22, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Midtown Tower, 9-7-1, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
| No. of locations | 2 (Nagoya and Osaka) |
| Owner |
SoftBank Group (36.4%) Yahoo! (35.5%) |
| Key people |
Masayoshi Son (Chairman) Manabu Miyasaka (President and CEO) |
| Revenue |
 ¥292,423 million (FY 2010) |
| Operating income |
¥159,604 million (FY 2010) |
| Net income |
¥92,174 million (FY 2010) |
| Total assets |
¥471,745 million (FY 2010) |
| Total equity |
¥385,105 million (FY 2010) |
| Employees | 5,518 (As of September 30, 2015) |
| Subsidiaries | Netrust, Ltd. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 15 Worldwide 1 Japan (November 2015[update]) |
| Registration | optional |
| Launched | April 1, 1996 |
| Current status | active |
Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社 Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese internet company formed as a joint venture between the American internet company Yahoo! and the Japanese company SoftBank. It is headquartered at Midtown Tower in the Tokyo Midtown complex in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Yahoo! Japan's web portal is the most visited website in Japan, and its internet services are mostly dominant in the country.
Yahoo! and SoftBank formed Yahoo! Japan in January 1996 to set up the first web portal in Japan. Yahoo! Japan went live on April 1, 1996.
Yahoo! Japan was listed on JASDAQ in November 1997. In January 2000, it became the first stock in Japanese history to trade for more than ¥100 million per share. The company was listed on the in October 2003 and became part of the Nikkei 225 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, a professional baseball team majority owned by SoftBank.
Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology. In exchange, Google receives user activity data from Yahoo! Japan's various products.
In 2016, Verizon Communications announced the purchase of Yahoo!'s core internet business. Yahoo! Japan is not affected as it is held as a separate 35% stake, and will therefore stay with Yahoo! and SoftBank. Yahoo! had been declining in popularity and economically since the late 2000s, but the situation has been quite the opposite for Yahoo! Japan, which continues to dominate Japan's internet industry.
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