Who owns Yahoo! JAPAN?
Yahoo! JAPAN is owned by LY Corporation (Japan, TSE: 4689).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024, 19 November 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- LY Corporation reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1996
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Search engines
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4689
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Yahoo! JAPAN
Yahoo! JAPAN is the portal LY Corporation says it launched in 1996, with Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Weather Information from the start. Its services include Yahoo! JAPAN Search, with search advertising sold as Yahoo! JAPAN Ads, plus Mail, Shopping, Auction, Flea Market and Travel. In 2024 LY added AI-generated answers to the Yahoo! JAPAN search results.
Ownership timeline of Yahoo! JAPAN
- Current owner LY Corporation [1] reported
Where Yahoo! JAPAN sits in LY Corporation
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Ikyu.com
- LINE
- Yahoo! JAPAN
- ZOZOTOWN (51.4%)
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Other brands owned by LY Corporation
LY Corporation controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in search engines, and who owns them
The 10 brands in search engines on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Apollo, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| AOL | Apollo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Quark | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Google Search | Alphabet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Baidu Search | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| Bing | Microsoft | 🇺🇸 United States |
| NAVER | NAVER | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Seznam Search | Seznam | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Yandex Search | Yandex | 🇷🇺 Russia |
About the owner: LY Corporation
LY Corporation is a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan, founded in 2023. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 4689.
LY Corporation is the Tokyo-listed company, code 4689 on the TSE Prime market, formed in October 2023 by an intra-group reorganisation that brought together Yahoo Japan Corporation and LINE Corporation. It is itself controlled: its integrated report names A Holdings Corporation as its parent, held 50.0% each by SoftBank Corp. and NAVER Corporation, with A Holdings owning 62.4% of LY and general shareholders 37.6%. It runs the Yahoo! JAPAN portal and the LINE messaging app and holds stakes in PayPay, ZOZO and ASKUL.
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🇯🇵 Yahoo! JAPAN and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Yahoo! JAPAN is not one of them.
- ABEMA — CyberAgent 🇯🇵
- Acquire — Kadokawa 🇯🇵
- Animal Crossing — Nintendo 🇯🇵
- Dragon Quest — Square Enix 🇯🇵
- Elden Ring — Bandai Namco 🇯🇵
- Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu — Konami 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Yahoo! JAPAN?
The parent company of Yahoo! JAPAN is LY Corporation, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Yahoo! JAPAN owned by Apollo?
No. Yahoo! JAPAN is owned by LY Corporation, not Apollo.
Is Yahoo! JAPAN Japanese?
Yes. Yahoo! JAPAN originated in Japan in 1996 and its owner, LY Corporation, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Yahoo! JAPAN still owned by LY Corporation?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Yahoo! JAPAN is still owned by LY Corporation. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024 — LY Corporation, Annual report, published 19 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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