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The messaging-and-portal giant SoftBank co-controls with Naver, anchoring Japan's digital infrastructure across LINE, Yahoo! JAPAN, ZOZO, ASKUL and PayPay — and the 2024 administrative guidance.
Why the Kuroneko parent-and-kitten brand dominates ~40% of Japan's home-parcel market, how the 2017 driver-wage scandal compressed margins for years, and what the 2024 Amazon Japan restructuring means for Japan's SCM economics.
Inside Rakuten's ecosystem — Ichiba, Card, Bank, Mobile, Symphony, Englishnization — and which parts of the playbook foreign retailers, fintechs and telcos should actually copy.
Mercari turned Japan into a nation of resellers and is now exporting that marketplace model to the US and beyond.
