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Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by tithe on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:39PM (#40078071)
Busted:

Japanese business entity search of "ビックリバーサービスジャパン" ("Big River Services Japan") via Japan's National Tax Agency -- https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/henkorireki-johoto.html?... -- shows the following address for this entity: 東京都目黒区下目黒1丁目8番1号.

A quick search for this address shows this page -- https://bb-building.net/tokyo/deta/1506.html -- which surprise, is the Amazon Japan HQ.

Interestingly, the address was later changed to a more low-profile building, which doesn't list any corporate tenant.

Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by mkumar10 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:05PM (#40080711)
Does Japan National Tax Agency also let you see other details - like parent company of the entity, or any other information? That's provided in countries like India or Vietnam in their corporate ministries/departments
Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by lmm on Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:36PM (#40081862)
> Does Japan National Tax Agency also let you see other details - like parent company of the entity, or any other information?

Not from the tax agency. For a KK you can get a list of investors from the legal affairs bureau for a small charge, and for any kind of company you can get a history of who has ever been representative director or equivalent. AIUI it's possible to have a "silent partner" setup where you have a partnership or GK and the representative is a lawyer rather than the person actually operating and profiting from the company, but there always has to be at least one publicly named representative.

Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by tithe on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:34PM (#40080965)
To my knowledge, the NTA does not list directors or ownership.

METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) has a portal to potentially display that information, but for private companies it may be missing, and thus the results may be no better than NTA's records: https://info.gbiz.go.jp/

Public entities (which Big River Services Japan is not) can be searched through the JPX (Tokyo Stock Exchange): https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/CGK020010Action.do

Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by zeroCalories on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:57PM (#40081178)
Lmao nice name. Are we gonna get "Internet Movie Corporation" from Netflix?
Re:Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals by fmajid on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:48AM (#40083790)
Denial isn’t the sole Big River, it seems.