Yahoo Japan

Japanese web portal

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March 2023 Yahoo! Japan GyaO video on-demand service was discontinued.
April 6 2022 Yahoo Japan discontinues services in the European Economic Area and the UK due to regulatory challenges.
March 2019 Yahoo! Japan GeoCities was discontinued.
March 31 2019 Yahoo! Search Custom Search was discontinued.
March 29 2018 Yahoo! Japan officially abolished the 'Yahoo! Category' directory-based search engine.
2017 Verizon Communications acquires Yahoo's core internet business for approximately $4.83 billion, but does not affect Yahoo Japan's operations.
June 29 2017 Yahoo! Japan announced the planned abolishment of its long-standing directory-based search engine 'Yahoo! Category'.
2014 Ymobile Corporation was formed through the merger of Willcom and eAccess, using the Y! moniker brand from Yahoo! Japan.
2010 Yahoo! Japan begins using Google's search engine technology.

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