ABOUT

Company Information

Company Name
Baidu Japan Inc.
Address
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 39F, Roppongi 6-10-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6139
Established
December 2006
Capital
460 million yen
Principal Shareholder
Baidu Group
Representative
President & CEO Feng Jiang
Primary Business
Development and provision of internet-related products and services, and sales of internet advertising

Management

Baidu, Inc. Chairman & CEO

Robin Li

After graduating from Peking University, Department of Information Management, in 1991, went to study abroad at The State University of New York, where he earned a doctorate in computer science.
After developing a real-time financial information system for the online edition of The Wall Street Journal, he worked at Infoseek on projects such as developing their search engine, and a picture search engine function for GO.COM. In 1996, while in the U.S., he acquired a patent for the search algorithm which would serve as the basis for Baidu’s current technology.
On January 1, 2000, he founded Baidu, Inc. The company began providing search engine technology to major portal sites. In 2001, Baidu.com began offering its Beta version of its search engine service, and has since grown to own over 70% of shares in the current Chinese market. In December 2006, he was ranked 4th among “2006’s Best Business Leaders” by the American business magazine『Business Week』. In January 2018 he was featured on the front cover of 「TIME」 Magazine.

Company History

December
2006
Established Baidu Japan Inc. as the first local subsidiary of Baidu, Inc.
September
2007
Moved offices to the 20th floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
December
2011
Acquired the Andorid Japanese language input application 『Simeji』
May
2012
Moved to the 34th floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
May
2015
Acquires the University of Tokyo venture firm popIn in a merger
April
2017
Moved to the 39th floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower