{"id":17471,"date":"2012-05-18T19:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2012-05-18T19:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:30:52","slug":"rakuten-to-purchase-51-of-online-pharmacy-kenko-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/rakuten-to-purchase-51-of-online-pharmacy-kenko-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten To Purchase 51% Of Online Pharmacy Kenko.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rakuten-logo-english.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rakuten-logo-english.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"rakuten-logo-english\" width=\"118\" height=\"28\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12972\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenko.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kenko-com-logo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"kenko-com-logo\" width=\"137\" height=\"33\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the same day when Rakuten&#8217;s investment on Pinterest <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120516\/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> (Rakuten <a href=\"http:\/\/global.rakuten.com\/investor\/releases\/pdf\/2012\/20120517e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced it<\/a> officially on today May 18.), the Japan&#8217;s largest online mall also announced another domestic investment.<br \/>\nOn May 15, Rakuten and Online pharmacy company Kenko.com (kenko = health in Japanese) jointly <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenko.com\/company_ir\/files\/zoushi_120517.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> [J, pdf] that they agreed on business alliance, as well as Rakuten&#8217;s friendly take over bid on Kenko.com, which will make Rakuten as a top shareholder, 40.75%. Rakuten group already holds some stock so the total ownership would be about 51%.<br \/>\nRakuten is planning to send 4 persons to the Kenko.com board on the next shareholder meetings planned on June 26.<br \/>\nKenko.com, who has been leading health-related products e-commerce in Japan, has been fighting on court against government around online drug-selling regulation. They recently marked a big turn-over win at high-court that the original government regulation banning internet drug selling, though Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry(MHLW) has appealed to the supreme court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day when Rakuten&#8217;s investment on Pinterest reported (Rakuten announced it officially on today May 18.), the Japan&#8217;s largest online mall also announced another domestic investment. On May 15, Rakuten and Online pharmacy company Kenko.com (kenko = health in Japanese) jointly announced [J, pdf] that they agreed on business alliance, as well as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/rakuten-to-purchase-51-of-online-pharmacy-kenko-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rakuten To Purchase 51% Of Online Pharmacy Kenko.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12972,"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],"tags":[1921,3047],"class_list":["post-17471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-kanko-com","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\/17471","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}