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DeNA: Japan’s most under-appreciated reinvention story

From Mobage to Yokohama BayStars to Pococha live streaming to MaaS — how a 1999 auction site pivoted twice without a crisis, and is now pivoting again under returned founder-CEO Tomoko Namba.

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LY Corporation: How Japan’s super-app holding company was built — and reshaped under government pressure

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.