From Japan

FROM JAPAN Limited
Native name
株式会社FROM JAPAN
Kabushikigaisha Furomu Japan
Company typePublic company (KK)
Industryecommerce
Founded30 March 2004
FounderTomohiro Kuno (CEO)
Headquarters
Chuo, Tokyo
,
Japan
Websitewww.fromjapan.co.jp

FROM JAPAN Limited（株式会社フロムジャパン Kabushikigaisha Furomu Japan）is a Japanese eCommerce site which provides international services to purchase and ship items from major Japanese online shopping and auction sites on behalf of users living outside of Japan.

History

From Japan initially started as a Yahoo! Auctions Japan bidding proxy service in 2004. In the following year, the company added the service to order from major Japanese online shopping sites and continues to provide this service presently. They are expanding as a business providing a one stop simple solution for people residing outside of Japan that wish to shop from Japanese websites, but are unable to due to the language barrier or other restrictions such as stores not shipping overseas.[1]

As one of Japan's first international E-Commerce proxies, they pride themselves in having the only userbase in Japan consisting of registered members residing in 196 countries.[2]

The website operates in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Spanish, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Italian, and Japanese.
The company also offers a service to "Simply put up a banner and start selling globally", aimed to support Japanese E-Commerce companies with large amounts of traffic from abroad that wish to expand their market overseas, contributing to the vitalization of small and middle-sized E-Commerce companies in Japan.[3]

Company timeline

  • 2004
    • March – Established FROM JAPAN Co., Ltd. in Shirakawa, Koto, Tokyo
    • August – Began operating as a proxy service for bidding on Yahoo! Japan auctions
  • 2005 October – Began operating as a proxy service for Japanese shopping sites
  • 2006 – Business partnership with Yahoo! Hong Kong
  • 2011
    • June – Headquarters moved to 2-7-4 Aomi, Koto, Tokyo
    • September – Introduced a service for Japanese E-Commerce sites to sell their products internationally by "Simply place a banner to sell overseas".
  • 2012
    • October – Headquarters moved to 1-4-14 Hirakawacho, Chiyoda, Tokyo
    • Collaboration with Rakuten – 5% off Rakuten Products Campaign
  • 2014 September – Headquarters moved to 1-1-1 Hirakawacho, Chiyoda, Tokyo
  • 2015
    • August – Headquarters moved to 3–12 Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo
    • October – Site relaunch with mobile support[4]
  • 2016
    • November – Headquarters moved to 2–1–5 Shinkawa, Chuo, Tokyo

References

  1. ^ "「海外で売れる日本商品」にも流行り廃りあり 海外ユーザーの販売代行FROM JAPANさんに聞く". ECzine (in Japanese). 27 August 2014.
  2. ^ "FromJapan's Customers from 150 Countries Shopped in Japan without Traveling to Japan". Reuters. 1 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 December 2015.
  3. ^ "バナーをはるだけで海外販売、アパレル系ECサイトのSTAY246が導入後に売上増". PR TIMES (in Japanese). 28 February 2014.
  4. ^ "193の国と地域からのユーザーが利用するFROM JAPANがウェブサイトのデザインを一新、モバイル対応で世界中からいつでも日本でお買い物". www.businesswire.com (in Japanese). 3 December 2015.