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The Rakuten Group’s newest member Curbside Is an exciting mix of online-to-offline, mobile commerce and same-day delivery.

Mobile commerce to empower society: Curbside

July 3, 2018

The Rakuten Group’s newest member Curbside Is an exciting mix of online-to-offline, mobile commerce and same-day delivery.

Mobile commerce to empower society: Curbside

July 3, 2018

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The Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba team celebrates the Taiwan launch of Rakuten Super Points in 2017.

Rakuten celebrates a decade in Taiwan: An interview with Grace Lo, founding member and CEO

July 17, 2018

Rakuten is collecting donations for those affected by the heavy rains, flooding and landslides that recently hit Western Japan.

Rakuten collecting donations for those affected by heavy rains, flooding and landslides in Western Japan

July 11, 2018

The new Rakuten Rapid API team. From left to right: Marc Gatley, Rintaro Kido, Marcus Saw, Alex Walling, Andrey Bukati, Lin Chen, Iddo Ding, Jed Ng, Caven Mitchell, Kanae Tanabe, Donna Yu

Rakuten RapidAPI launches to empower developers in Japan & Asia: RapidAPI CEO Iddo Gino

July 11, 2018

The yearly Tanabata event aims to bring together Rakuten Crimson House’s diverse employees through a shared celebration of Japanese culture.

Shaved ice, yukata and drones: Rakuten employees celebrate Tanabata Festival in Tokyo

July 11, 2018

Rakuten Ichiba's trend predictions for summer 2018 are separated into five categories: wear, eat, live, play and enjoy. Here are the highlights...

What Japanese shoppers are buying this summer: Rakuten Ichiba trends

July 6, 2018

20,000 diehard fans showed up to “Poldi’s Public Viewing Party – presented by Rakuten” in Cologne to cheer on Germany in their World Cup match with Sweden.

Lukas Podolski, Rakuten and 20,000 fans celebrate the World Cup in Cologne

July 4, 2018

Gurazeni is a manga that follows the story of the fictional Bonda, a mediocre baseballer obsessed by other players’ salaries and how they compare to his own

Baseball manga gives unique insight into lives of the Rakuten Eagles

July 2, 2018

Rakuten’s new logo underlines “One” corporate identity

June 26, 2018

Rakuten France has committed to a series of measures designed to remove dangerous products from our marketplace as soon as we are notified.

How we’re working to keep our marketplace safe: Rakuten France

June 25, 2018

Japan requires immigration to prosper in the 21st century. Our old economic model based on manufacturing has reached its limits. In this digital century...

Opening Japan’s doors for immigration

June 23, 2018

We love data and we love football, so it’s only natural we’d look at how big moments from Japan’s World Cup opener affected user behavior on Rakuten Ichiba.

How key moments in Japan’s World Cup opener showed up in online shopping traffic

June 23, 2018

“Click and Collect” will offer visitors to the Super Boulanger Shop on Rakuten PriceMinister’s site the ability to order from a range of 25,000+ products...

Rakuten France and Boulanger partner to empower shoppers with “Click and Collect”

June 19, 2018

Rakuten Global Market is an e-commerce platform enabling shoppers from around the world to buy items from the Japan-based Rakuten Ichiba...

Rakuten Global Market: Offering Japanese Quality to the World

June 18, 2018

Rakuten welcomed 11 “Young Ambassadors” from around the world to Barcelona to promote SDGs & cheer on their favorite footballers. Here were the highlights:

Rakuten brings young football fans to Barcelona to represent SDGs

June 15, 2018

Indulging dads: Top Father’s Day trends in Japan from Rakuten

June 13, 2018

Golden State’s remarkable championship season gives us reason to celebrate. It also gives us reason to consider the question: Why do sports inspire us?

Golden State Warriors are NBA champions! Why we celebrate

June 11, 2018

Rakuten AirMap is looking to support the proliferation of drones in everyday life, not just through innovative airspace management platforms, but also by...

Rakuten AirMap leads drone programming session for kids in Tokyo

June 8, 2018

Goals Beyond the Game is the latest effort in the company’s ongoing mission to empower society and create a more sustainable future through innovation.

By empowering society through sustainable development, Rakuten stays true to its roots

June 5, 2018

NEST 2018: most companies struggle to make sense of data but some digital natives are using it adeptly to rapidly grow their businesses.

How Japanese startups are leveraging big data to solve business challenges

June 4, 2018

in order to take your thinking to the next level—to really understand what needs to happen to make your idea successful—you must take action.

Action is the best research

June 1, 2018