You already enjoy success and growth in the U.S. market, but have you considered the Japanese market?
The Japanese economy is the world’s second largest after the U.S. economy. According to the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry in Japan, in 2004 the annual expenditure for shopping on the Internet in Japan was approximately 5.6 trillion yen (US $48.7 billion). In the U.S., that figure was approximately 16 trillion yen (US $160 billion). This shows Japan’s e-commerce market is roughly 1/3 the size of the US market, and the largest in Asia, followed by South Korea and China. And this market is growing! It is forecasted that Japan will catch up with the U.S. by 2007.
To help you take advantage of this tremendous growth potential and sell your products directly to customers in Japan, we have created Ohayo Navigator.
Ohayo Navigator positions itself at the top of your shopping site with the icons shown below, assisting Japanese customers on your shopping cart. Your Japanese customer gets help with US dollar to Japanese yen conversion, a Japanese mailing address look up tool, and more.
Ohayo Navigator is the perfect tool to help you tap into the Japanese market because:
- You don’t have to translate all your English information into Japanese
- You don’t have to change how customers place orders on your shopping site.
- It provides extensive help during the process of customer check out with your product items.
- It provides a tool to convert US dollar amount to Japanese yen based on the latest Japanese exchange rate.
- It provides a tool to display a Japanese mailing address in English by supplying only their 7 digit postal code.
- The installation is easy because we host all your programs.
- It works best with Yahoo Merchant Stores
, but can be set up to work with other shopping sites.
Construction and Installation Process
After we receive your order, we review your site and collect the information such as payment method and shpping method. We translate the information and set up your Ohayo Navigator.
We may have to ask you a specic information pertinent to Japanese customers such as a merchant name that appears on the credit card statement.
After the set up, we will send you an icon and link information. You can place the icon with the link anywhere in your site. That’s it!