The Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to issue a cease-and-desist order against Google over what it says is a violation of the antimonopoly law by forcing smartphone manufacturers to include the ...

On April 15, 2025, Google announced that it will stop using country-specific top-level domains and start redirecting to 'google.com.' From now on, if you access domains such as 'google.co.jp' or ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is reportedly planning to or has already sent a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC’s Japan office, accusing Google of breaching Japan’s antimonopoly laws by forcing ...

Google is in the process of consolidating the many international domain names that lead to google.com, eliminating sites such as google.co.jp and google.ru for Japan and Russia. The company says it no ...

Google has announced that it will begin phasing out country-specific domains, such as google.co.in for India, google.co.jp for Japan, or google.ae for UAE, in favour of a single, unified domain: ...

Sanseito, which significantly expanded its seats in the July election for the Upper House, paid a total of ¥37 million in ...

Google domains are consolidating to Google.com. Learn what this could mean for hreflang tags and what SEO steps you should take now. Google is redirecting all country domains to Google.com while still ...

As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers. Last year at a ...

Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. will join with Google Inc. to provide Internet search and email services on its handsets, according to a slew of media reports from Tokyo. Users will be able ...

Google may have stopped putting out dozens of April Fools’ videos every year, but Googlers in Japan still love a good joke – and the latest is ridiculous keyboard that they’re called Gboard Bar ...