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- ↑ The Diamond Weekly, Interview with an Entrepreneur: Masakazu Motoki, President of “Searchina”, the biggest China information site in Japan, who has realized a dream of a Chinese student overseas Archived 2009-10-01 at the Wayback Machine (pp.120～121 2009/2/14 issue)
- ↑ Nikkei BP, Searchina and Dow Jones Japan jointly operate a global investment information site Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ japan.internet.com: Searchina to Become a Subsidiary of SBI Holdings Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine