OKWAVE created Japan's first Q&A community site, OKWAVE.jp. The origin behind the company name comes from 'Oshiete' (Japanese for 'tell me') and 'Kotaeru‘ ('answer') which outlines the flow of Q&A. The vision of OKWAVE is to foster mutual support among the users withour community. OKWAVE operates subscription services offering celebrity Q&A and it also offers enterprise-class help desk solutions, holding the largest market share in Japan since 2000. OKWAVE became a public company in June 2006 and is listed on the Nagoya Centrex Market (3808:Nagoya). OKWAVE received strategic investments from Rakuten in October, 2007 and from Microsoft in March, 2008.
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The OKWAVE, Inc. annual revenue was $30.6 million in 2026.
Tadanari Fukuda is the CEO and Co-founder of OKWAVE, Inc..
9 people are employed at OKWAVE, Inc..
OKWAVE, Inc. is based in Tokyo, Tokyo.
The NAICS codes for OKWAVE, Inc. are [56199, 561, 56, 561990, 5619].
The SIC codes for OKWAVE, Inc. are [73, 738].