Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo! Inc. In 2019, it changed to a holding company structure and came under Z Holdings, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group. In 2021, Line Corporation also became part of ZHD, and in 2023, Yahoo! Japan merged with ZHD and its five subsidiaries, including Line Corp, to form LY Corporation. It operated Yahoo! Japan, which was the most-visited website in Japan.[2]
History
Yahoo! and SoftBank formed Yahoo! Japan in January 1996 to establish the first web portal in Japan. Yahoo! Japan went live on April 1, 1996.[3] Yahoo! Japan was listed on