Internet Initiative Japan


Internet Initiative Japan Inc. was founded in 1992 by Koichi Suzuki, IIJ as Japan’s first ISP. The company now offers network services, value-added outsourcing services, cloud computing, WAN services and systems integration services. IIJ's flagship cloud service named IIJ GIO is among Japan’s public cloud computing leaders, previously ranked as the top provider in the Japanese cloud market for 2 consecutive years.
Today, IIJ serve more than 8,500 blue chip clients, and operates in: Japan, US, UK, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand. They employ more than 3000 staff worldwide, over 70% of which are technical engineers.
From 1999 IIJ were listed on NASDAQ, USA and as of 2006 were listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
IIJ also operates IIJmio, a prepaid mobile virtual network operator service started in 2001 which operates on the NTT DoCoMo network.