This is big news for fans of Japanese fashion, manga, anime, and anything else that is exclusively available in Japan. From
AOL News:
Yahoo, EBay Team Up in Online Auctions
Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the U.S. and Japan.
Under the collaboration, Americans using eBay will be able to more easily buy Japanese goods popular abroad, such as "manga" comic books, CDs, and products that feature Japanese animation characters and other mascots, it said.
EBay and Yahoo Japan also launched a separate Web site called Sekaimon, which means "global shopping" in Japanese.
This should be good news for people shopping for Japanese products, but bad news for all of the Japanese auction services that allow you to buy from Yahoo Japan Auctions with their help. This might put the auction assistant services in Japan, that help English speakers, out of business eventually.