eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Akky Akimoto

Yahoo! Japan, the Japan biggest portal, has partnered with eBay in online auction services.

eBay Inc. once tried to open its popular auction service under its subsidiary eBay Japan established in 1999, retreated March 2002 without getting market share against “Yahoo! Auction” (so-called “Yafuoku”).

Yahoo! Auction users will have translated eBay items listed by March 2008, whilst eBay will have Japanese staffs (such like “popular Japanese Manga, CD, character merchandise”) by the end of 2008.

Two companies also opened standalone site “Sekaimon” (”Sekai” means “world”), on where Yahoo! Japan users can log in by Yahoo! Japan ID and purchase eBay items with Japanese menu and online agent support.

Other Japanese online auction players are Rakuten’s “Rakuten Furima”(”Furima” comes from “fleamarket”) and “bidders”, which is served by DeNA (DeNA also owns “Mobage-Town“, the biggest cellular phone SNS).

On cellular phone web, “Mobaoku” (which stands for Mobile Auction) coworks with KDDI/au, “Rakuten Auction” affiliated with NTT Docomo, are two popular sites.

5 Responses to “eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan”

SCSF(Swift Current, Slow Flow) // Dec 13, 2007 at 4:29 pm

そういえば、この前のSEKAIMONのニュースも紹介されてた。■ eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan
SCSF(Swift Current, Slow Flow) // Dec 13, 2007 at 4:30 pm

そういえば、この前のSEKAIMONのニュースも紹介されてた。■ eBay shakes hands with Yahoo! Japan
Tokyotronic // Jan 5, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Not a huge thing but it shows they put some resources into fighting Youtube and Nico Nico Doga, at least here in Japan. Moreover, Yahoo Japan and Ebay America are cooperating now so that Japanese people and Ebay users can trade internationally (background). This new service is called Sekaimon (”door to the world”). Did I forget anything?
Tokyotronic // Jan 25, 2008 at 5:44 am

to Yahoo Japan’s well-established auction service. The world’s No.1 auction site closed their office in Tokyo after a few months. My guess is Facebook will go for a cooperation with a Japanese player (like Ebay finally did with Yahoo Japan some weeks ago). Maybe they are on the prowl already. The question is: Which Japanese service can that be?
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