Adways
Adways is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 2001. Its publicly recorded practice centres on advertisin…
Agencies in Japan
12 integrated marketing communications agencies in the directory headquartered in Japan.
Amana
Amana is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1979. Its publicly recorded practice centres on advertising…
BIGWEST
BIGWEST is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1973. Its publicly recorded practice centres on advertisi…
Dentsu
Dentsu is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1901. Its publicly recorded practice centres on marketing,…
Hakata Bus Terminal Company
Hakata Bus Terminal Company is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 2016. Its publicly recorded practice …
Hakuhodo
Hakuhodo is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1895. Its publicly recorded practice centres on marketin…
Kyodo Public Relations
Kyodo Public Relations is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1964. Its publicly recorded practice centr…
Reasend
Reasend is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan. Its publicly recorded practice centres on advertising.…
Saylor Advertising
Saylor Advertising is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1951. Its publicly recorded practice centres o…
Sotsu
Sotsu is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 1965. Its publicly recorded practice centres on marketing.…
Streamgraph
Streamgraph is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan, founded in 2005. Its publicly recorded practice centres on resea…
Tomato
Tomato is an integrated marketing communications agency, headquartered in Japan. Its publicly recorded practice centres on marketing.…
The IMC landscape in Japan
Japan is represented in the directory by 12 agencies working across the integrated marketing communications spectrum. The list above is alphabetical; each profile contains the agency's recorded founding year, its primary specializations, and links to peers it shares context with elsewhere in the directory.
Reading a country page is a useful first step when scoping a market: it surfaces both the long-running local houses and the more recent independent shops, and it makes the comparative shape of the market visible at a glance. Concentrations of agencies around particular specializations — heavy in PR but light in performance media, for example, or heavy in brand strategy but light in production — often say more about the local economy than any individual agency profile can.
For a wider lens, the specialization index lets you compare Japan agencies against peers in other markets practising the same craft. The founding-decade index lets you compare them against contemporaries elsewhere in the world. And the about page explains what is and isn't included in this directory.