We can place orders from just about any website or shop in Japan as long as they provide an online or off line shopping and shipping service. Here are a few bigger players in the Japanese online business market. Please keep in mind that we can order even from the smaller shops or online websites.
Amazon.jp
If you are looking for Japanese books, Japan related books and international DVD collections, then Amazon Japan is your best choice. Amazon Jp reflects the thoughtful Japanese mind in the most impressive way. In fact, it is the huge popularity of Amazon Japan that proves that Japan has never lost the connection with the traditional, nevertheless its digital glory. Amazon jp is primarily available in Japanese, although there is English support in the website. The Amazon jp website currently hosts a great collection of DVDs, books, art books, Thesaurus and dictionary and other books.
Some of the present popular titles on Amazon co jp are Michael Jackson DVD collection, Sesame street kid’s songs, all about particles text book in Japanese, Kodansha’s essential kanji dictionary, Japanese English dictionaries and thesauruses. Besides these some very beautiful fiction titles like a Geisha’s journey and Cherry blossoms of Kyoto are also available . What is best about the Amazon Japan site is that the books as well as music are classified in convenient categories. mailorderjapan can assist you by arranging the purchase as well as shipping of books from Amazon japan. Mailorderjapan accepts international payment methods such as paypal.
Rakuten shopping mall
Rakuten Ichiba is not only Japan’s largest online shopping mall, but also it is one of the top 10 online ecommerce companies of the world. Since its inception in February 1997, Rakuten has grown to a current 50 million plus registered memberships. At present Rakuten is listed at the 2nd position in the global B2C ecommerce companies. The item categories at Rakuten are extensive and comparable only to Yahoo! Japan auctions. However, unlike the auctions site, Rakuten is not only limited to online selling of items. Instead, this company owned by Hiroshi Mikitani offers extensive financial services, travel services, professional sports sponsorship and internet media services. Rakuten ichiba also offers international shipping services as a part of its international expansion plans.
As a testimony to the international expansion plans of the company, very recently on 27th January 2010, Rakuten confirmed in a press release that they have agreed to open a partnership company based in China. The Chinese partner of Rakuten in this recent venture is Baidu, Inc. The new online internet mall in China will presently only sell Chinese and other global brands, and will later let Japanese merchants participate in it through a tie up with Rakuten Ichiba. MAilorderjapan can assist international buyers to make the article purchases and have them shipped at any valid given address.
Mbok
What is mbok?
Mbok.jp or ‘Mobaoku’ is a Japanese mobile auctions site, where visitors can place their orders using mobile internet. Mobaoku has the reputation of being the largest online mobile auctions company in tech-savvy Japan. mbok. jp can also be operated via a personal computer.
How large is mbok?
Online website rankings site robtex.com (http://www.robtex.com/dns/mbok.jp.html ) places mbok.jp at number 3228 of world sites and confirms that mbok.jp is hosted from a server in Japan. The site is also listed in Alexa 100000 and has secured fair rankings of WOT ratings. Alexa rankings host mbok as the 219th site in Japan. (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mbok.jp )
What is available?
This mobile auctions company operating from Japan hosts a vast category of items. Presently the site is very busy with Valentine’s day gifts and items in various categories. (happy valentine’s day). The gift items include many dress items, gift items, jewelries, books, paintings and fragrances. For mbok signup and purchases you have to have a Japanese mobile connection. The shopping categories at Mobaoku can be checked at the following link. (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mbok.jp%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools )
For mbok purchases you will need the help of a shopping service company. Mailorderjapan is such a shopping service that can really help you make your purchases and have them shipped at your address.
