{"id":1489,"date":"2008-12-05T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2008-12-05T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T07:56:20","slug":"japanese-no1-ec-site-rakuten-started-multilingual-item-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/japanese-no1-ec-site-rakuten-started-multilingual-item-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese No.1 E-Commerce site “Rakuten” started multilingual item search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rakuten, the largest E-Commerce player in Japan, has started a multilingual item search service in Rakuten Ichiba, the biggest Japanese online shopping mall.
\nRakuten Ichiba top page[J] <\/a>\/ Rakuten Ichiba top page[E]<\/a>
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\nThe sales of Rakuten’s E-Commerce division for the year ’07 was 75.5 billion yen( about 800 million US dollars).
\nRakuten launched E-Commerce service in Taiwan<\/a> from May ’08 and now trying to sell more items for abroad. Multilingual search function is one of the service to increase the sales in overseas.
\nIt’s using Google Translate<\/a> to translate item pages into 24 languages. The user can search by his favourite language and searched keywords will match with the translated text written on item pages. This function is available at Rakuten International Shipping Services <\/a>page.
\nRakuten International Shipping Services<\/a>
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\nSearch result by the keyword “Gundam” in English<\/a>
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\nTranslated item page<\/a>
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\n[disclaimer] Hiroumi Mitani is working at Rakuten as a producer for international development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rakuten, the largest E-Commerce player in Japan, has started a multilingual item search service in Rakuten Ichiba, the biggest Japanese online shopping mall. Rakuten Ichiba top page[J] \/ Rakuten Ichiba top page[E] The sales of Rakuten’s E-Commerce division for the year ’07 was 75.5 billion yen( about 800 million US dollars). Rakuten launched E-Commerce service… Continue reading Japanese No.1 E-Commerce site “Rakuten” started multilingual item search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9,17,23],"tags":[1007,1423,2472,3047],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-e-commerce","tag-google-translate","tag-multilingualization","tag-rakuten","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}