Yahoo! JAPAN Web API
LY Corporations developer portal — search, maps, shopping, Kakaku and Japanese-morphology text APIs.
Our Verdict
Indispensable for Japan-market apps needing local data and morphology, with uneven doc quality and TOS friction.
Pros
- Broad free API portfolio spanning search, maps, and shopping
- Japanese morphology APIs handle tokenization natively
- Well-known stable brand under LY Corporation
- Free tiers cover many prototyping use cases
Cons
- Japanese-only documentation for many endpoints
- Rate limits tight compared to Google equivalents
- Some APIs deprecated or in maintenance mode
- Terms of use restrict commercial reuse in some cases
When to Use Yahoo! JAPAN Web API
Good fit if you need
- Japanese morphological analysis API for NLP pipeline
- Yahoo Japan shopping data for price comparison tools
- Maps API for Japanese address and geolocation services
- Web search API for Japanese-language content discovery
- Kakaku price data integration for Japanese retail apps
Pricing
Price wrong?Yahoo! JAPAN Web API Pricing
- Pricing Model
- free
- Free Tier
- Yes
- Entry Price
- —
- Enterprise Available
- No
- Transparency Score
- —
Beta — estimates may differ from actual pricing
Estimated Monthly Cost
$25
Estimated Annual Cost
$300
Estimates are approximate and may not reflect current pricing. Always check the official pricing page.
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