But few, if any, Japanese companies have gone as far as Rakuten.

但即使有的话，也只是少数日本企业达到了乐天那样的程度。

"No English, no job," Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told the Asahi newspaper.

乐天首席执行官三木谷浩史对《朝日新闻》说：“不会英语，就失业吧！ ”。

Employees at Rakuten will need to master English by 2012 to avoid facing the sack.

乐天雇员需要在2012年前掌握英语，以避免被开除的命运。

The combined resources of Rakuten and Baidu should prove to be a stiff test for Taobao.

对淘宝来说，乐天和百度的合力将会是一个艰难的挑战。

Rakuten, Japan's biggest online retailer, plans to make English the firm's official language.

日本最大的网络零售商乐天公司准备将公司的官方语言换成英语。

The online retailing giant Rakuten is one of a number of Japanese companies to embrace English.

在线零售业巨头乐天集团，是日本第一个全面使用英语的公司。

Moreover, as it ventures overseas, Rakuten faces stiffer competition at home: its nearest rival, Yahoo!

此外，当它大胆进军国外市场时，乐天市场还面临着国内顽强的竞争：距它最近的对手是大部分股权掌控在电信运营商软银手中的雅虎日本。

Rakuten also struck a wide-ranging partnership with China's search-engine giant, Baidu, earlier this year.

乐天市场还在今年早些时候与中国的搜索引擎巨头百度开展了广泛合作。

But the inefficiencies that Rakuten exploited in the Japanese market do not exist to the same extent elsewhere.

但是，乐天市场开拓日本市场时的无功而返，却不会在别的市场上同样碌碌无为。

Rakuten - is the largest online travel company in Asia and one of the largest ecommerce companies in the world.

乐天是亚洲最大的在线旅游公司，同时是全球最大的电子商务公司之一。

Buyers receive points for purchases from any Rakuten merchant, which they can redeem for discounts at any other merchant.

消费者可以从乐天市场的所有商家那里获得与所购商品相对应的点数，这些点数可在任何其他商家那里兑换为折扣。

Japan's Rakuten shows how the mobile share of e-commerce is growing as well, from 10% of e-commerce in 2006 to nearly 20% now.

日本的Rakuten 06年移动电子商务占了10%，现在到20%。

The mall is slated to launch in the second half of this year. According to the agreement, Rakuten will own 51 per cent and Baidu 49 per cent.

商场的预定开幕日期是今年下半年。根据协议，乐天和百度将分别拥有51％和49％的股份。

According to the agreement that was announced in January, Rakuten will have a 51% ownership stake in the venture, while Baidu will own the remainder.

据1月发布的合作协议来看，乐天将拥有合资公司51%的股权，百度则拥有剩下的49%。

In Japan's top online retailer Rakuten, employees with furrowed brows can often be seen trying to comprehend the company's English language menus.

在日本网络零售巨头乐天公司，经常可见员工眉头紧锁试图理解英文菜单。

There are three big and M&A active Asian based companies with money to spend and a need for growth outside their home market – Rakuten, Wotif and Ctrip.

有三家总部在亚洲的资本大鳄，它们拥有扩张海外市场的需求，频频对收购目标出手。 这三家公司分别是乐天（Rakuten）、Wotif以及携程网。

Since launching two weeks ago on Rakuten, a major Japanese web shopping mall, the Wishroom shop has sold over 300 men's bras for 2,800 yen ($30) each.

这款文胸售价2800日元（合30美元），自Wishroom内衣店在日本“乐天”大型网上购物商城推出这款文胸两周来，已售出300多件。

And retailers that had previously shied away from online sales altogether may set up virtual shops of their own now that Rakuten has established the demand.

而且由于乐天市场已经确定顾客有此需求，先前彻底退出网上销售领域的零售商可能会建立起自己的实体商店。

The latest move came last month, when it announced a joint venture with Global Mediacom, Indonesia's largest media group, to bring the Rakuten formula to that country.

乐天市场最近一次采取动作是在上个月，当时它宣布将和印尼最大的传媒公司Global Mediacom共同组建公司，从而将乐天市场正式引入印尼。

Rakuten Bank in Japan offers a similar "Transfer by Facebook" service that lets users of its mobile banking app send money to anyone in their Facebook friends list.

位于日本的乐天银行提供类似服务，其移动银行用户可以通过脸书向任何好友转账。

Those questions are at the heart of this series of dialogues between Ryoichi, an economist who died in 2013, and his son Hiroshi, founder of the Internet company Rakuten.

这些问题是纠缠经济学家良一于其子三木的问题，红姐图库大全；良一于2013年过世，三木是网络公司日本乐天市场的创始人。

Those questions are at the heart of this series of dialogues between Ryoichi, an economist who died in 2013, and his son Hiroshi, founder of the Internet company Rakuten.

这些问题就是书中三木谷良一和他的儿子三木谷浩史一系列对话的核心。三木谷良一是一名经济学家，于2013年去世，而三木谷浩史则是互联网公司乐天的创始人。

Those questions are at the heart of this series of dialogues between Ryoichi, an economist who died in 2013, and his son Hiroshi, founder of the Internet company Rakuten.

这些问题是纠缠经济学家良一于其子三木的问题； 良一于2013年过世，三木是网络公司日本乐天市场的创始人。

To foster a cosmopolitan spirit, Rakuten is making English the working language of its top brass. Yet the factors that have made it a striking success may be purely Japanese.

尽管可能是地道的日本人令其取得了令人瞩目的成功，但为了培育大都会精神，乐天市场正将英语作为其高层的工作语言。

Rakuten China will operate in much the same way as the Japanese version, by providing a platform for thousands of vendors to sell their wares to users visiting the well-known website.

乐天中国的运作方式在很大程度上与日本总公司相似：为数千家网商提供平台，以将商品出售给访问这家知名网站的用户。