Mahana Corporation

Based in Minato City, Tokyo, Mahana Corporation is a digital marketing company focused specifically on the Japanese market. It works with both Japanese businesses and international companies seeking to enter or grow within Japan, positioning its services around the linguistic and technical complexities of running campaigns in Japanese. The team, sized between one and ten people, describes itself as having nearly 20 years of presence in Tokyo, giving it familiarity with local search behaviour, media outlets and digital habits specific to Japanese audiences. The agency's declared services include Japanese SEO, SEM/PPC, social media marketing (SNS), blog marketing, AI optimization, and web design and development. Its SEO work targets both Yahoo! Japan and Google, addressing the technical challenges the Japanese language presents for optimization. On the paid media side, it researches trending Japanese keywords and builds ad strategies aimed at outperforming local competitors. Social media services cover platform selection, paid ad management, scheduled posting and account communication. For websites, Mahana emphasizes localization rather than direct translation, adapting wording and imagery to match native Japanese usage and cultural expectations. It also offers press release distribution, writing releases tailored to a client's brand and sending them to a network of over 300 local media outlets to increase exposure. Additional listed services include domain and server management, SSL implementation in Japanese, website renewal, and general Japanese translation work.