Yahoo Japan, the country’s No.2 online shopping site operator after Rakuten, wants to close the deal as early as June so that Japanese users can buy Chinese products through Yahoo Japan’s website and vice versa, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

Taobao is a group company of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, whose investors include Japan’s Softbank. Softbank also has capital ties with Yahoo Japan.

Reuters reported last month that Alibaba was in talks with Softbank to form a tie-up to help merchants from their online marketplaces sell into each other’s markets.

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Then, since the 31st of this month, they can go to the Chinese version of OKWave to find answers.

OKWave is Japan’s largest Q & A Web site with 1.5 million members and monthly views of more than 41 million. Information exchanged at this site is related to life, workplace, social and interests of about 10 major categories, with hundreds of small categories. The site is in cooperation the two companies: Chinese industrial company, Castle Peak Data Center, launching the Chinese service on July 31.

It is reported that during the launch of “OKWave China”, Chinese users can use Chinese to bring up various issues about Japan, Chinese in Japan or Japanese will answer these questions, and questions from the Japanese who have interest in China will be answered by Japanese in China or Chinese who can speak Japanese. As a platform for Chinese and Japanese people through questions and answers to have mutual exchange of information, people from these two countries will get answers to their concerned questions.

Hiroyuki Tanaka of OKWave said at a press conference that in Japan existing web site for foreigners or online community were mostly operated by foreigners, and most users were foreigners, but some answers were too general and vague, so that it was difficult for questioners to collect real valuable information about Japan. “OKWave China” is aimed at building a useful information platform for Japanese and Chinese people to exchange information to help solve doubts and worries.

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Besides, according to the survey done by Anchor Research in June 2005, 58.5% of users expected to get their new mobile phones with 2-D code identifying function. The figure was ranked No. 3, only next to million-pixel cameras and music players. 2-D code identification has become the basic function of mobile phone perceived by mobile phone users in Japan.

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By 2005, the figure reached up to 28.8 billion Yen, increased by nearly 6 times in 3 years. Wireless Advertising has become an important part of Japanese Internet advertising industry. It is predicted that in 2006, Japanese wireless advertising would get a market size of up to 45 billion Yen, continuing its high-speed development trend.

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In this respect, there were 1620 official Japanese websites in 2001, and 41093 non-official websites; as of mid 2005, the figure of wireless official websites reached 4,635 and non-official websites got 87372, with the total websites number of over 92000. At present, the number of Japanese wireless websites still keeps a steady growth.

With rapid growth of Mobile TV industry, the main networks are very likely to be combined, which may bring about remarkably change within the value chain. It can be specified as: