The E-Commerce Opportunity in Japan with Mark Wang of Shopify and Kaz of kiko & gg

On this episode of RISE Offstage our guests are Mark Wang, Head of East Asia for Shopify who heads up the e-commerce platforms growth in Japan and he invited one his e-commerce success stories Kaz from kiko & gg to provide insight from a local Japanese entrepreneurs perspective and how her e-commerce business is operating, and not only during a pandemic, but more importantly internationally and with Japanese retail culture intact.

SHOW NOTES

Shopify: https://www.shopify.com
Shopify Japan https://www.shopify.jp
Selling in Japan https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/intro-to-shopify/initial-setup/sell-in-japan
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kiko & gg
English website https://www.kikoandgg.com
Japanese website https://www.kukkia.jp
English Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kikoandgg/
Japanese Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kikoandgg_jp/
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Stores.jp https://www.stores.jp
Commerce Cloud https://www.salesforce.com/ca/products/commerce-cloud/overview/
Rakuten https://www.rakuten.co.jp
Amazon Japan https://www.amazon.co.jp
Yahoo Japan https://shopping.yahoo.co.jp/
Don Quixote https://www.donki.com/en/
Tokyu Hands https://www.tokyu-hands.co.jp/en/
Mercari https://www.mercari.com/jp/
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Japan E-commerce Stats https://ecommercedb.com/en/markets/jp/all
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What is Kodawari? https://exploringkodawari.blog/what-is-kodawari/
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RISE https://www.riseconf.com
Web Summit https://www.websummit.com
Casey Lau on Twitter https://twitter.com/casey_lau
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