This article showcases our top picks for the best Japan based Marketing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Marketing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Japan Marketing Startups
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ABEJA
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ABEJA is a platform that integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies including IoT, big data, and deep learning.
UUUM
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UUUM is a YouTuber-focused management production services company.
DataX
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R&D of private marketing platform B→Dash, digital marketing strategy
ZEALS
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Conversational Commerce OMOTENASHI REVOLUTION with Chatbot Technology
SATORI
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SATORI develop a product called SATORI, an all-in-one next-generation marketing platform include DMP and Marketing Automation.
Kaizen Platform
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Kaizen is a full-service digital customer experience optimization platform that scales data-driven creativity.
GENOVA
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Digital Marketing Solution Agency in Japan and China
hey Japan
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hey is aiming to support economic development driven by fun and was born through the management integration
UPWARD
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UPWARD provides an app that anyone can intuitively use on smartphones and tablets.
HEROZ
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HEROZ provides mobile media, marketing, and SNS-related services.
FreakOut Holdings
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FreakOut is marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms.
Channel
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Channel Corp. provide a chat platform Channel Talk to create a customer-centric culture.
EAGLYS
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EAGLYS provides a Secure Computing Platform for sharing, storing, analyzing, and machine learning over encrypted data
Commmune
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Commmune is a customer success community software that brings companies and users together
Neural Pocket
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Developing the society of tomorrow through AI engineering.
Good Vibes Only
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Good Vibes Only is a digital PR & marketing company that provides digital transformation & D2C consulting using digital technology.
Canly
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Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business.
Metaps Inc.
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Metaps is engaged in three businesses: finance business, marketing business and the DX support business.
VRIZE
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Vrize is a develop end-to-end virtual reality enterprise solutions.
C Channel
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C Channel is an online video-based digital fashion media platform.
True Data
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True Data to provide support and consulting services for purchasing behavior data using ID-POS for retailers.
BUZZCAST
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BUZZCAST provides influencer-based marketing, focusing on high-ROAS game LP (Let’s Play) videos.
Karakuri
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Karakuri develops a business support tool for customer support and call centers.
Samurai Incubate
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Samurai Incubate invests in early-stage start-ups and provides support in management, marketing, sales and HR.
Inaho
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Inaho is a firm that is developing an agricultural platform around an automatic vegetable harvesting robot.
PlayBrain
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PlayBrain connects people using games. We work with esports, marketing, products and influencers.
I&S BBDO Inc.
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I&S BBDO is a full service marketing communications agency. That provides sales promotions, events, PR, digital marketing, CRM, ERM, etc.
CoreStaff Japan
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CoreStaff engages in authorized agency business for semiconductors and electronic components.
APOLLO 11
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APOLLO 11 offers Search Engine Optimization, UX/UI improvement, and web advertisement.
Thesaurus Japan
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Thesaurus is a consulting firm born in Osaka
NewsTV
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NewsTV is a “Video Release service” which distributes corporate news in a format of one minute video content.
Nishikawa Communications
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Nishikawa Communications provides marketing, promotion, advertising, printing, logistics and eco-friendly labels.
CHARACTER DATABANK
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CHARACTER DATABANK provides media business, web, publishing, marketing research business and consulting business.
ADLINE
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ADLINE is a company whose mission is to make every effort to generate profits for everyone involved through advertising
Tokyo Creative
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Tokyo Creative is a marketing, entertainment, and lifestyle company.
ADK
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ADK is a marketing company that provides overall group strategy and operational policies, management, and direction of operating companies.
Ioix
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Ioix specializes in providing SEO and web marketing services.
CAPSULE
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CAPSULE is a digital marketing company specializing in the housing industry.
FueTrek
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FueTrek provides speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialog, and automatic translation products and services.
H.M. Marketing Research
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H.M. Marketing Research is an independent full-service marketing research agency.
FinT
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FinT operates SNS marketing businesses and young women’s media.
Adflex Communications
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Adflex Communications helps companies expand their businesses in the marketing field.
GKNOT
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GKNOT is a marketing and advertising service company.
ADK Marketing Solutions
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ADK Marketing Solutions is an advertising agency that places advertisement in magazines.
RealCRO
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Tokyo-based creative marketing & branding agency specialised in intercultural communication.
Busy Bee
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Busy Bee offers lead generation and content marketing services.
FOCUS Japan
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Focus is a Marketing specializing in the condominium industry
Shingura
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Shingura provides online advertising and media development using the latest ad technology, and marketing solutions.
Shuttlerock Japan
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Shuttlerock Japan provides support for marketing using SNS such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
Parallel
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Parallel is a new form of influencer marketing in japan.
Hoken-all
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Hoken-all engages in temporary staffing, recruitment, and marketing businesses.
BANDAI NAMCO Rights Marketing
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BANDAI NAMCO Rights Marketing provides its clients with marketing services through the use of technology.
Cosmo
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Cosmo is a public relations and communications company.
UsideU
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UsideU is developing and providing service robots in which people and robots collaborate.
Disrupting Japan
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The foremost podcast on Japanese startups and innovation and the best source of English-language information on the subject.
Fortuna Co., Ltd.
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Fortuna Co., Ltd. offers web design,EC site management,system developement,Internet advertising,IT & offshore business.
Japan Pallet Rental
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Japan Pallet Rental provides a broad range of palettes and other products that include container, rack, trolly, and container management.
Japan Green Stamp
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Japan Green Stamp provides green stamps services.
GO
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GO provides advertising, social media, public relations, and marketing services.
Soukai Drug
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Soukai Drug engages in the online retail of household and health related goods in China, Japan, and Indonesia.
Push
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Push is a web development firm that provides digital marketing services.
CS-C
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CS-C is an AI marketing engine development “C-mo” series Media development and operation system.
UNIMEDIA Japan
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UNIMEDIA Japan is a media company that provides internet marketing services.
Sony Creative Products
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Sony Creative Products is an IP management company.
e-vision
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E-vision is a marketing platform that innovates in the real estate industry.
Coobal
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Coobal provides internet marketing, system development and website production services.
Lombard
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Lombard provides marketing, advertising and internet services.
ELEPHANTSTONE
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ELEPHANTSTONE is providing video production and advertisement services.
EC-CUBE
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EC-CUBE full-scale online shop construction system that can realize originality.
GMO AD Marketing
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GMO AD Marketing is a company who offers mobile phone marketing solutions.
Takami
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Takami provides advertising signboard designing and printing services.
OMC
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OMC is an advertising agency specializing in medicine, food, housing and electronics.
Find Japan
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FindJapan is the official agency of Weibo in Japan
Digital Bank
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Digital Bank is a web development company that supports business needs with marketing strategy.
Data Vehicle
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Data Vehicle is a Business related to acquisition, analysis, and analysis of big data.
Insight Tech Japan
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Insight Tech is a Marketing surveys and report creation Data analysis contracts using artificial intelligence
Listing Plus
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Listing Plus is a listing Advertising information provision, listing Advertising agency
Brand Pit
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Brand Pit is a revolutionary visual marketing research tool allowing brand managers to analyse photos posted on the internet.
Entwickeln Zukunft
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Entwickeln Zukunft is a consulting firm that specializes in digital marketing, web consulting, SEO, content marketing and web design.
GogoJungle
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GogoJungle is a Sales platform for automated trading, market analysis
Marketing Lab
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Marketing Lab is a content marketing, advertisement, marketing, and SEO company.
Social Databank
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Social Databank engages in the development, operation and provision of cloud services.
ADDIX
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ADDIX is a business design company that focuses on corporate communications support in the digital marketing field.
Marumitsu
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Marumitsu co is a wholesaler of general clothing that handles sundry goods, drugs & cosmetics.
GRI
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GRI is a start-up focused on business in the data analysis area.
UPDATE Japan
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UPDATE is an Advertising agency business service company.
STANDS
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STANDS is a business-to-business marketing and marketing consulting company.
Tsuide
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Tsuide offers sales representatives the products to sell in addition to regular sales.
Media Max Japan
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Media Max Japan is a Web marketing company
GMO MAKESHOP
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MakeShop is the management screen is recommended for PC operation
AKATSUKI
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Akatsuki is a marketing company that utilizes IT and IP in providing solutions to businesses.
fixU
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fixU is a company that focuses on platform development and operation, and Consulting on coworking management.
LITMORE
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Litmore is a marketing company that supports working adult women .