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Orico, the Orient Corporation, offers credit cards, loans, and payment services for individuals and businesses. Products include Orico Card THE POINT, Orico Pay Balance, card loans, purpose-specific financing, and installment plans. Members can earn and redeem Orico Points and Kurashi Smile, while e-Orico and its app provide statements, point management, and account procedures. Orico Mall, merchant benefits, investment plans, and campaigns add related services. The site also provides payment information for companies and merchants, FAQs, repayment guidance, fraud prevention, customer support, and company details.

Sansan provides business services for organizing and using company-wide data such as business cards, online contacts, and sales interactions. Its corporate site also introduces Eight for digital business cards, Bill One for accounting document workflows, Contract One for contract management, and Sansan Data Intelligence for data quality management.

jSTAT MAP is the Statistics GIS web application linked from Japan’s e-Stat government statistics portal. It displays statistical results on maps at prefecture, municipality, small-area, and regional-mesh levels, allowing users to explore geographic patterns and compare areas. The official guide describes creating statistical maps and charts from government statistics or user data, drawing analysis areas, and producing simple reports in HTML or Excel. It presents these functions as useful for basic planning and analysis in areas such as disaster prevention, facility development, and market analysis. The start page and help documentation distinguish guest from signed-in use: maps, graphs, area creation, and simple reports are available without an account, while saving data, geocoding, importing or exporting data, and rich reports require an e-Stat account.

The Institute for AI and Beyond is a research hub established through the Beyond AI joint initiative of the University of Tokyo and SoftBank. It promotes mid- and long-term basic research that combines core AI technologies with other academic fields, as well as applied research using AI to address social and industrial challenges. The official site introduces research projects, participating researchers, the advisory board, events, and news. It also explains how research outcomes are moved toward practical use and commercialization, including collaboration structures intended to turn joint research into new ventures. Visitors can follow current programs, including 2026 lecture recruitment and industry-academia initiatives on responsible AI ethics.

The official Mizuho Securities website presents securities services for individuals and businesses, investment information, and company details. Personal products include Japanese and overseas stocks, investment trusts, bonds, fund-wrap services, NISA, and insurance and pension products. The site explains account opening, service-course choices, online trading and account procedures through Net Club, branch search, and visit reservations. It also publishes market and investment information, seminar listings, official videos, campaigns, and notices about new products, IPOs, and POs. FAQs, customer support, fee and risk disclosures, inheritance and gifting support, and company information are available.

CrowdWorks is a Japanese crowdsourcing and freelance-work platform. Clients post projects online, choose from applicants or invite a worker directly, and review the deliverable when the job is complete. Its official homepage lists more than 250 kinds of work, including design, software and website development, writing, translation, office support, and data entry, with tools to publish jobs and search for workers. Membership and job posting are advertised as free. The FAQ says clients generally pay no usage or posting fee, while workers pay a system fee based on the contract amount. The site also describes payment options, worker ratings and identity checks, and monitoring intended to deter suspicious projects and attempts to move transactions off-platform.

This is the official news website operated by NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster. The current news page is at news.web.nhk/newsweb, where the older candidate address at www3.nhk.or.jp/news now leads. The homepage presents breaking, latest, and featured stories, with sections for society, politics, business, weather and disasters, international affairs, science and culture, sports, and daily life. Readers can browse regional news by prefecture, follow in-depth coverage, and find links to video and television-program news. Related information includes nationwide forecasts and disaster guidance, rail-service updates, power outages, elections, health information, and simplified-language news. An overseas-use notice explains that NHK ONE is intended for Japan: text reporting can be viewed abroad, while some videos may not be available. The portal therefore combines Japanese national and regional reporting with practical public-service information and links to NHK news programs, while making the overseas video limitation clear.

The official Yamada Holdings site provides company information about a group centered on consumer-electronics retail. It describes five business segments: electronics, housing, finance, environment, and other activities, and covers sales of appliances, furniture, and interior goods as well as the manufacture and sale of original products. Links lead to group companies including Yamada Denki, Otsuka Kagu, TSUKUMO, and Best Denki. Visitors can find corporate and group information, press releases, investor materials, sustainability, and careers. This is the holding company’s corporate portal, not a store for purchasing appliances or furniture.

The official Japanese corporate site of AGC explains its industrial businesses and product portfolio. Its fields include architectural, automotive and display glass, electronic components, chemicals, and ceramics. Product and business pages organize information by material, product area, and application. The site also publishes company news, corporate information, sustainability content, and investor relations. Product, careers, and contact sections help visitors find official details about the company and its activities.

Girls Channel (ガールズちゃんねる) is a Japanese discussion community whose homepage invites women to chat about subjects they enjoy. The live front page lists popular and newly created topic threads with comment counts, provides a way to submit a topic, and lets visitors browse by category. Visible categories include relationships, beauty, fashion, family and childcare, food, health, daily life, work, television and film, music, news, politics, sports, technology, animals, and general questions. The service is centered on user-created topics and public comment discussions rather than one narrow subject area. Its category list also includes an adults section, so the whole site should not be presented as suitable for every audience. Pricing and account rules were not stated on the reviewed homepage.

This is the official site of Okinawa Tourist Service, featuring travel arrangements and local information for Okinawa. Visitors can look for island hotels, rental cars, activities, and bus tours. OTS FREESTYLE is presented as a way to combine air tickets with accommodation in Okinawa. The site also explains local travel assistance, a members’ lounge, visitor information, and coupons. It brings lodging, transportation, and activities for an Okinawa trip together in one place.

Doorkeeper is an event and community management service for seminars, meetups, and other gatherings. Organizers create community and event pages, set ticket types and capacity, customize registration forms, and manage attendees or waitlists. The platform supports prepaid ticket sales, QR-code check-in, participant messages, and events held online or in person. Mailing lists and recurring membership plans help communities stay connected between events. Attendees can register with only an email address and do not need a Doorkeeper account. Organizers can run their first event for free; a paid plan is required for later events, and prepaid tickets carry transaction fees.

The official BOOKOFF Online Store is an e-commerce site for new and used goods, including books, manga and comics, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, and video games. Its homepage provides product search and category links for books, comics, music, video, and games. Recently added items, price reductions, weekly rankings, and features about works adapted into films, dramas, or anime help shoppers browse the catalog. Product pages show prices and purchase options, while the site also offers a cart, wishlist, store pickup information, app details, and customer help. It serves shoppers looking to browse new and secondhand books and media in one place and use rankings and editorial features to guide their selections.

Sportsnavi is a Japanese multi-sport portal covering domestic and international competitions, including baseball, football, horse racing, golf, tennis, and basketball. Its homepage features a live scoreboard, sport-by-sport navigation, and notable events for the day. Visitors can also browse sports news, editorial columns, videos, official updates, and live-stream schedules. Dedicated sections link to coverage of Japanese professional baseball, MLB, the J.League, and international football. The footer identifies Sportsnavi as a Yahoo! JAPAN service operated in cooperation with Sportsnavi Inc. and LY Corporation.

Kakaku.com is a Japanese site for comparing products and consumer services. It brings together prices from participating shops along with specifications, price histories, rankings, user reviews, discussion boards, and buying guides for areas such as computers, appliances, cameras, phones, vehicles, communications, insurance, and utilities. Kakaku.com does not sell the products itself; shoppers continue to a listed retailer to purchase. Prices, shipping, and terms may change, so buyers should confirm current details with the shop. Browsing is open, while posting reviews or comments requires a free Kakaku.com ID.

PLAID is a Japanese technology company focused on using data to improve customer experience and business growth. Its main CX platform, KARTE, uses first-party customer data and real-time analysis to personalize experiences across websites and apps. It also supports cross-channel marketing and ad-delivery optimization, with the stated aim of helping businesses understand customers, strengthen engagement, and grow revenue. Beyond the platform, PLAID offers professional services spanning data-led strategy, implementation, and operations, as well as products for automated advertising-data aggregation and AI analysis of websites. The official corporate site displayed current product and business news from 2026.

The official Nomura Securities website provides investment, financial-product, market, and support information for individuals and businesses. Its offerings include stocks, bonds, investment trusts, NISA, defined-contribution pensions, and fund-wrap services. The site also describes the Nomura investment app, a cash-transfer service linking brokerage and Nomura Trust Bank savings accounts, account opening, and online trading. Visitors can access market information, new products, IPOs and tender offers, investment research, FAQs, procedures, and risk and fee disclosures. Wealth management, asset building, and inheritance consultations sit alongside company information, news, and careers.

firestorage is a free Japanese online storage service for individuals and businesses, with tools to store, share, and send files. Its official homepage describes unlimited storage and a maximum size of 300 GiB per file, including use for large data and remote collaboration. Related services include Okuru for sending files to chosen recipients, Uketoru for collecting files from an open group, and Miseru for viewing images without downloading them. Individual membership and business plans are listed alongside user guides, FAQs, security information, and support contacts. The service focuses on temporary sharing and storage of large data, with separate tools for sending and receiving.

Yahoo! Chiebukuro is a Japanese community Q&A service where people post questions and advice requests for other users to answer. Its categories cover everyday life, health, hobbies, technology, careers, business, education, and more. Visitors can browse recent questions, posts still seeking answers, and resolved discussions; listings show answer counts and sometimes identify a best answer with Chie Coin rewards. Public questions and answers are viewable without signing in, while posting and account features such as My Chiebukuro require a Yahoo! Japan account. The site also links to expert answers, a personal-advice feature, an official blog, and help resources.