[nirui]

I don't think the newsletter pop ups is a layout design problem, it's more like an idea contributed by the marketing department.

Layout wise... you can totally have a website designed like a whole casino of dump truck emptied on you. I'm not talking about Japanese websites or even pointing my figures, but it's a simple fact that you absolutely and unmistakably can have the worst of the both worlds, and everybody who visits taobao.com can experience that first hand.

[3np]

Also Rakuten. Unfortunately an increasing amount of Japanese sites are bringing over the bad part of “modern” Western web design.