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101 Top Marketing Agencies & Startups (Japan)

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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

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

ABEJA

ABEJA

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ABEJA is a platform that integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies including IoT, big data, and deep learning.

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PATRON

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PATRON is the sharing economy for influencers.

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UUUM

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UUUM is a YouTuber-focused management production services company.

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DataX

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R&D of private marketing platform B→Dash, digital marketing strategy

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ZEALS

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Conversational Commerce OMOTENASHI REVOLUTION with Chatbot Technology

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SATORI

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SATORI develop a product called SATORI, an all-in-one next-generation marketing platform include DMP and Marketing Automation.

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Kaizen Platform

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Kaizen is a full-service digital customer experience optimization platform that scales data-driven creativity.

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GENOVA

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Digital Marketing Solution Agency in Japan and China

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hey Japan

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hey is aiming to support economic development driven by fun and was born through the management integration

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Forest

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Forest operates as an e-commerce aggregator.

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UPWARD

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UPWARD provides an app that anyone can intuitively use on smartphones and tablets.

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Qurate

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Air-traffic-control for Content Operations

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HEROZ

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HEROZ provides mobile media, marketing, and SNS-related services.

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FreakOut Holdings

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FreakOut is marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms.

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Channel

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Channel Corp. provide a chat platform Channel Talk to create a customer-centric culture.

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EAGLYS

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EAGLYS provides a Secure Computing Platform for sharing, storing, analyzing, and machine learning over encrypted data

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Commmune

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Commmune is a customer success community software that brings companies and users together

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Neural Pocket

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Developing the society of tomorrow through AI engineering.

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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.

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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.

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Metaps Inc.

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Metaps is engaged in three businesses: finance business, marketing business and the DX support business.

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VRIZE

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Vrize is a develop end-to-end virtual reality enterprise solutions.

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C Channel

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C Channel is an online video-based digital fashion media platform.

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True Data

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True Data to provide support and consulting services for purchasing behavior data using ID-POS for retailers.

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BUZZCAST

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BUZZCAST provides influencer-based marketing, focusing on high-ROAS game LP (Let’s Play) videos.

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Karakuri

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Karakuri develops a business support tool for customer support and call centers.

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Samurai Incubate

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Samurai Incubate invests in early-stage start-ups and provides support in management, marketing, sales and HR.

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Inaho

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Inaho is a firm that is developing an agricultural platform around an automatic vegetable harvesting robot.

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PlayBrain

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PlayBrain connects people using games. We work with esports, marketing, products and influencers.

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ISH Group Japan

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iromono is a System Creativity Company.

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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.

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CoreStaff Japan

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CoreStaff engages in authorized agency business for semiconductors and electronic components.

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APOLLO 11

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APOLLO 11 offers Search Engine Optimization, UX/UI improvement, and web advertisement.

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Thesaurus Japan

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Thesaurus is a consulting firm born in Osaka

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NewsTV

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NewsTV is a “Video Release service” which distributes corporate news in a format of one minute video content.

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Nishikawa Communications

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Nishikawa Communications provides marketing, promotion, advertising, printing, logistics and eco-friendly labels.

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CHARACTER DATABANK

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CHARACTER DATABANK provides media business, web, publishing, marketing research business and consulting business.

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ADLINE

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ADLINE is a company whose mission is to make every effort to generate profits for everyone involved through advertising

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Tokyo Creative

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Tokyo Creative is a marketing, entertainment, and lifestyle company.

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ADK

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ADK is a marketing company that provides overall group strategy and operational policies, management, and direction of operating companies.

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Ioix

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Ioix specializes in providing SEO and web marketing services.

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CAPSULE

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CAPSULE is a digital marketing company specializing in the housing industry.

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FueTrek

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FueTrek provides speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialog, and automatic translation products and services.

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H.M. Marketing Research

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H.M. Marketing Research is an independent full-service marketing research agency.

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FinT

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FinT operates SNS marketing businesses and young women’s media.

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Adflex Communications

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Adflex Communications helps companies expand their businesses in the marketing field.

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GKNOT

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GKNOT is a marketing and advertising service company.

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ADK Marketing Solutions

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ADK Marketing Solutions is an advertising agency that places advertisement in magazines.

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RealCRO

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Tokyo-based creative marketing & branding agency specialised in intercultural communication.

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Busy Bee

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Busy Bee offers lead generation and content marketing services.

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FOCUS Japan

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Focus is a Marketing specializing in the condominium industry

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Shingura

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Shingura provides online advertising and media development using the latest ad technology, and marketing solutions.

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Shuttlerock Japan

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Shuttlerock Japan provides support for marketing using SNS such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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Parallel

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Parallel is a new form of influencer marketing in japan.

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Hoken-all

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Hoken-all engages in temporary staffing, recruitment, and marketing businesses.

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BANDAI NAMCO Rights Marketing

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BANDAI NAMCO Rights Marketing provides its clients with marketing services through the use of technology.

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Cosmo

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Cosmo is a public relations and communications company.

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Rizwan Khan

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ZR Trading Co LTD

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UsideU

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UsideU is developing and providing service robots in which people and robots collaborate.

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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.

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Fortuna Co., Ltd.

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Fortuna Co., Ltd. offers web design,EC site management,system developement,Internet advertising,IT & offshore business.

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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.

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Japan Green Stamp

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Japan Green Stamp provides green stamps services.

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GO

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GO provides advertising, social media, public relations, and marketing services.

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Soukai Drug

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Soukai Drug engages in the online retail of household and health related goods in China, Japan, and Indonesia.

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Push

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Push is a web development firm that provides digital marketing services.

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CS-C

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CS-C is an AI marketing engine development “C-mo” series Media development and operation system.

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NOVITA Japan

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Novita is a WEB marketing company

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UNIMEDIA Japan

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UNIMEDIA Japan is a media company that provides internet marketing services.

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Sony Creative Products

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Sony Creative Products is an IP management company.

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e-vision

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E-vision is a marketing platform that innovates in the real estate industry.

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Coobal

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Coobal provides internet marketing, system development and website production services.

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Lombard

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Lombard provides marketing, advertising and internet services.

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ELEPHANTSTONE

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ELEPHANTSTONE is providing video production and advertisement services.

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EC-CUBE

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EC-CUBE full-scale online shop construction system that can realize originality.

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GMO AD Marketing

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GMO AD Marketing is a company who offers mobile phone marketing solutions.

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Takami

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Takami provides advertising signboard designing and printing services.

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TRUSTRIDGE

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TRUSTRIDGE is an Ad marketing business

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OMC

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OMC is an advertising agency specializing in medicine, food, housing and electronics.

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Find Japan

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FindJapan is the official agency of Weibo in Japan

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Digital Bank

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Digital Bank is a web development company that supports business needs with marketing strategy.

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Data Vehicle

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Data Vehicle is a Business related to acquisition, analysis, and analysis of big data.

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Insight Tech Japan

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Insight Tech is a Marketing surveys and report creation Data analysis contracts using artificial intelligence

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Listing Plus

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Listing Plus is a listing Advertising information provision, listing Advertising agency

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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.

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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.

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GogoJungle

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GogoJungle is a Sales platform for automated trading, market analysis

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Marketing Lab

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Marketing Lab is a content marketing, advertisement, marketing, and SEO company.

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Social Databank

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Social Databank engages in the development, operation and provision of cloud services.

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ADDIX

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ADDIX is a business design company that focuses on corporate communications support in the digital marketing field.

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Marumitsu

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Marumitsu co is a wholesaler of general clothing that handles sundry goods, drugs & cosmetics.

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GRI

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GRI is a start-up focused on business in the data analysis area.

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UPDATE Japan

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UPDATE is an Advertising agency business service company.

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STANDS

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STANDS is a business-to-business marketing and marketing consulting company.

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Tsuide

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Tsuide offers sales representatives the products to sell in addition to regular sales.

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Media Max Japan

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Media Max Japan is a Web marketing company

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GMO MAKESHOP

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MakeShop is the management screen is recommended for PC operation

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KMK WORLD Japan

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KMK WORLD is a consulting company

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AKATSUKI

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Akatsuki is a marketing company that utilizes IT and IP in providing solutions to businesses.

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fixU

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fixU is a company that focuses on platform development and operation, and Consulting on coworking management.

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LITMORE

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Litmore is a marketing company that supports working adult women .

Written by Mark Smith

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