Hiroshi Mikitani

Marketplace giants like Rakuten and Zozo, local department stores and foreign e-tailers are battling for supremacy in Japan’s lagging but lucrative online fashion market.

TOKYO, Japan — Rakuten Inc. agreed to buy U.S. rebates website Ebates Inc. in Japan's largest e-commerce deal on record as the operator of the

"As much as American entrepreneurs like to portray themselves as mavericks, the stricter bonds of loyalty that define Japanese corporate culture made

LONDON, United Kingdom — The head of Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc is used to defying convention, having quit the safety of a job at the