{"id":1528,"date":"2008-12-15T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2008-12-15T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:07:03","slug":"yahoo-japan-launches-english-version-of-their-auction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/yahoo-japan-launches-english-version-of-their-auction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Japan launches English version of their auction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intl.auctions.yahoo.co.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1530 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/yahoo_auction.png\" alt=\"Yahoo! Japan Auction screen shot\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYahoo! Japan introduced an <a href=\"http:\/\/intl.auctions.yahoo.co.jp\/\">English version of Yahoo! Japan Auctions<\/a> on October 10th,  2008. Its target audience is foreign residents in Japan who can communicate in basic Japanese but prefer to use an English interface.<br \/>\nYahoo! Japan Auctions is the biggest Internet auction site in Japan.<br \/>\nThe major drawback of the English site is that only items whose sellers have checked the &#8216;display on English site&#8217; option are shown. Currently, only a few items are shown on the English site. Also, it is not possible to sell an item through the English site at the moment.<br \/>\nThe English version of Yahoo! Japan Auctions is the opposite of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sekaimon.com\/sekaimon_ebay.html\">Sekaimon<\/a> [JP], a Japanese version of eBay.<br \/>\n[Updated] Yahoo! Japan made a quick decision to shut down the English version just after half an year. <a href=\"http:\/\/topic.auctions.yahoo.co.jp\/notice\/maintenance\/yahoo_9\/\">Release<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! Japan introduced an English version of Yahoo! Japan Auctions on October 10th, 2008. Its target audience is foreign residents in Japan who can communicate in basic Japanese but prefer to use an English interface. Yahoo! Japan Auctions is the biggest Internet auction site in Japan. The major drawback of the English site is that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/yahoo-japan-launches-english-version-of-their-auction-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yahoo! Japan launches English version of their auction site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[17,23,29],"tags":[339,1028,4151,4154,4161],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","category-service","tag-auction","tag-ebay","tag-yahoo","tag-yahoo-auction","tag-yahoo-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}