桜咲く国のウェブ戦略・世界へ繋ぐ
日本市場参入・戦略設計・成果重視
Japan-native web strategy · est. 2020
The Japanese internet plays by its own rules — its own platforms, its own search engines, its own idea of trust. SAKURA INT is a Japanese web-marketing strategist who has spent years making brands grow inside that ecosystem. Now we do it for companies coming from outside.
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日本は違う The market nobody warns you about
Strategies that work in London or New York routinely stall in Tokyo — not because the product is wrong, but because the ecosystem is. Here is what overseas teams usually discover six expensive months in:
#1 globally, per capita
Japan is X's strongest market outside the US — it drives news, fandom, and buying decisions in ways Western brands rarely plan for.
90M+ monthly users
Not "a chat app" — Japan's default channel for CRM, coupons, and customer care. If your funnel ignores LINE, it ignores Japan.
2 search engines that matter
Google dominates, but Yahoo! JAPAN remains a major habit for older, high-spending demographics. Japanese SEO covers both.
4x the scrutiny
Japanese consumers research deeply before buying. Reviews, company pages, and precise honorific language decide whether you look credible or careless.
97% mobile-first behaviour
Information density, seasonality, and campaign culture follow local conventions. "Clean and minimal" can read as empty and untrustworthy here.
1 strategist you need
Machine translation gets you words. It doesn't get you keigo, timing, platform etiquette, or the cultural subtext that makes Japanese customers say yes.
This is exactly why SAKURA INT exists: a strategist native to the Japanese web, collaborating with you in writing, on your side of the table.
事業内容 What we do
Consulting is the core — everything else exists so the strategy actually ships. Engage us for a single report or the entire market entry.
SVC — 01 · THE CORE
Deep-dive analysis of your product's fit for Japan and a channel-by-channel plan to win it. Delivered as the 20–40 page strategy reports our Japanese clients have trusted across 500+ projects — with a full English translation for your team.
SVC — 02
Strategy, native-Japanese content, and hands-on management for X, Instagram, LINE, YouTube, and TikTok — built to earn Japanese followers who become customers, not vanity numbers.
SVC — 03
Keyword research in Japanese, not translated English. Content and technical SEO tuned for how Japanese customers actually search on Google and Yahoo! JAPAN.
SVC — 04
Japanese-market websites and landing pages — designed to local trust conventions, written in persuasive native Japanese, and built to be maintained by your team afterwards.
SVC — 05
Booking systems, membership features, EC integrations — the technical plumbing behind a Japanese digital presence, planned and delivered alongside the strategy that needs it.
SVC — 06
From million-subscriber YouTubers and VTubers to brand IP projects — audience-building strategy for creators and character-driven brands entering or growing in Japan.
道のり How we cross the bridge
A structured hearing on your product, goals, and constraints. We become experts in your business before proposing anything — it's the habit our repeat clients mention most.
Market, competitor, and channel research — reviewed with our academic statistics advisor — condensed into a 20–40 page strategy report — delivered with an English translation — and a prioritized roadmap.
Sites, SNS accounts, content, and campaigns produced in native Japanese — every deliverable tied back to a line in the strategy, never decoration.
Measure, iterate, and hand over. We document everything so your team can run it — or stay on as your Japan-side marketing partner. Your call.
実績 Why teams trust us
お客様の声 Client voices
Translated from verified reviews left by our Japanese clients.
The proposal captured our industry and target audience precisely — SNS funnel design, concrete improvements, everything ready to put into practice immediately. We learned something on every page.
Not generic textbook advice — practical, specific proposals we couldn't have arrived at ourselves, built on a real understanding of our vision. Putting the plan into action is genuinely exciting.
They analyzed our situation objectively and, instead of pushing us straight into a website build, insisted on getting the direction right first. They truly thought about our total benefit as a client.
石井拓真
TAKUMA ISHII — FOUNDER & STRATEGIST
代表 The person you'll work with
Takuma founded SAKURA INT in 2020 on a simple frustration: beautiful websites and growing follower counts that never turned into revenue. His answer was to treat every client project as if it were his own business — strategy first, production second, results always.
Six years and 500+ projects later, that approach has served clients from major corporations and government bodies to professional sports teams and creators with over a million subscribers — with research quality kept honest by an academic statistics advisor.
When you work with SAKURA INT, you work with Takuma directly. No account managers, no telephone game — just the specialist, in writing, on your project. Written-first collaboration means every decision stays documented and nothing is lost across time zones.
質問 Before you ask
Yes. The founder works in Japanese — that is exactly the expertise you are hiring. Collaboration is written-first: you write to us in English, and every proposal, report, and reply crosses the language line with translation support and a careful eye on nuance. All market-facing output (ad copy, SNS posts, site content) is written in native Japanese.
Most clients start with a market-entry strategy report: a 20–40 page analysis of your product's fit for Japan, your competitors, the channels that matter for your audience, and a prioritized action plan. From there we can execute together or hand the plan to your team.
X (Twitter), Instagram, LINE, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Google & Yahoo! JAPAN search, plus Japanese e-commerce and review ecosystems. Recommendations always start from where your Japanese customers actually are.
Fixed-scope projects (strategy reports, site builds) are quoted up front. Ongoing work (SNS management, consulting retainers) is monthly. Tell us your goal and budget and we'll propose the leanest plan that can reach it.
お知らせ Insights & news
— 咲かせましょう、日本で —
Tell us where you are and where you want to be. First consultations are free, handled in writing, and refreshingly concrete.