Yahoo Japan and Apple, Inc. have teamed up recently and has replaced a Sony Corp.-affiliated music download service on Yahoo Japan with Apple’s iTunes Music Store. With this partnership its now possible for users to access iTunes through Yahoo Music Japan. The iTunes music store now onwards will be the default store for Yahoo Japan.

Yahoo is currently very popular in Japan and has above 40 million users which is actually 84% of the country’s internet users, wow that’s certainly a lot. Well no wonder Apple planned for teaming up with Yahoo Japan.