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Fleetora · first roles in DEEcommerce stores in Japan_
As of 4 November 2026, 1,519 ecommerce stores are based in Japan: 74 with 51+ employees, 0 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Shinjuku.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 1,519
- 51+ employees
- 74 · 5%
- Hiring now
- 0 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- General consumer goods ecommerce · 708
- Top city
- Shinjuku · 8
- Running cold outbound
- 0
- Platform detected
- 547 · 36%
Ecommerce stores in Japan, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| General consumer goods ecommerce | 708 · 0 |
| Food production, wholesale & retail | 344 · 0 |
| Fashion & apparel ecommerce | 274 · 0 |
| Health, beauty & food ecommerce | 134 · 0 |
| Vehicle & parts retail | 63 · 0 |
| Jewellery & watch ecommerce | 56 · 0 |
| Trade & technical equipment ecommerce | 47 · 0 |
| Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce | 45 · 0 |
| Pet supplies ecommerce | 33 · 0 |
| Visual art galleries & prints | 22 · 0 |
| Books publishing & retail | 15 · 0 |
| Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail | 14 · 0 |
| Ticket & subscription resellers | 12 · 0 |
| Music & radio | 8 · 0 |
| Machinery equipment wholesale | 6 · 0 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 1,048 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 267 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 130 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 65 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 7 · 0 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Shinjuku | 8 | 1% |
| Shibuya (Tsuginobiruonozoku) | 6 | 0% |
| Jingumae | 5 | 0% |
| Asahi | 4 | 0% |
| Higashiikebukuro (Tsuginobiruonozo | 4 | 0% |
| Sotokanda | 4 | 0% |
| Asakusabashi | 3 | 0% |
| Minamiaoyama | 3 | 0% |
| Nakano | 3 | 0% |
| Omachi | 3 | 0% |
| Tokyo | 3 | 0% |
| Akasaka (Tsuginobiruonozoku) | 2 | 0% |
The biggest ecommerce stores in Japan
The largest ecommerce stores of the country, by headcount; marketplaces, portals and directories left out.
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The stack of ecommerce stores in Japan
Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.
What Japan's ecommerce stores run on
Ecommerce platform, payment providers and marketing stack, read from the stores' own pages and DNS. A platform is detected on 547 stores (36%); headless, custom and undetected builds make up the rest. Shares are of all 1,519 stores. Payments and marketing cover only the providers our crawl detects today (PayPal, Stripe, Klarna, SumUp; Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo and the like).
| stores | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe | 76 | 5% |
| PayPal | 3 | 0% |
| stores | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Clarity | 31 | 2% |
| Zendesk | 19 | 1% |
| Mailchimp | 15 | 1% |
| Brevo | 10 | 1% |
| 6 | 0% | |
| HubSpot | 5 | 0% |
| Klaviyo | 4 | 0% |
| tawk.to | 4 | 0% |
| Hotjar | 3 | 0% |
| Matomo | 3 | 0% |
| stores | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Commerce & trade | 1,383 | 91% |
| Automotive | 63 | 4% |
| Media & content | 45 | 3% |
| Manufacturing & industry | 17 | 1% |
| Health care | 3 | 0% |
| Hospitality & travel | 3 | 0% |
| Consumer services & leisure | 2 | 0% |
| Agriculture & forestry | 1 | 0% |
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1,519 ecommerce stores are based in Japan: 74 with 51 or more employees, 0 hiring right now (0 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Shinjuku. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/japan)
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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Ecommerce stores in Japan: questions
How many ecommerce stores are there in Japan?
1,519 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 74 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company is an ecommerce store?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which ecommerce stores in Japan are hiring?
0 have an open role on their own career site today and 0 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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Yes: filter on ecommerce stores and Japan, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.
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