{"id":13936,"date":"2011-04-19T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2011-04-19T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:49:11","slug":"study-post-quake-sales-of-japanese-group-buying-sites-down-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/study-post-quake-sales-of-japanese-group-buying-sites-down-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Post-Quake Sales Of Japanese Group-Buying Sites Down 36%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the overall size of Japan&#8217;s market for online group-buying sites? Tokyo-based <a href=\"http:\/\/luxa.jp\/\">Luxa<\/a> (which runs one of these sites\/more info <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/jafco-invests-6-million-in-japanese-groupon-clone-luxa\/\">here<\/a>) regularly issues reports on the domestic industry as a whole.<br \/>\nAnd according to their latest study, the quake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 had a rather large  negative effect on the sales numbers of the Japan&#8217;s group buying  sites: total sales just reached 9.7 billion yen (US$117 million) in March 2011, based on 220 sites examined.<br \/>\nThis chart from Luxa shows that numbers were actually going up slightly from January to February, following the sharp decline the industry saw right after <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/groupon-japans-osechigate-still-smoldering\/\">Osechi gate<\/a> in December:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/groupon-japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13940\" title=\"groupon japan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/groupon-japan-400x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2011\/04\/15\/1907_010939.html\">Venture Now<\/a> [JP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the overall size of Japan&#8217;s market for online group-buying sites? Tokyo-based Luxa (which runs one of these sites\/more info here) regularly issues reports on the domestic industry as a whole. And according to their latest study, the quake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 had a rather large negative effect on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/study-post-quake-sales-of-japanese-group-buying-sites-down-36\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Post-Quake Sales Of Japanese Group-Buying Sites Down 36%<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24,36],"tags":[1453,2164],"class_list":["post-13936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-trend","tag-groupon","tag-luxa","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}