About Us
Asiajin is a weblog focused on Asian startup companies, websites, and technology communities. Our mission is to provide timely articles about Asian Internet in English.
Asiajin staff
“Akky” AKIMOTO
He is a founder of a newly released Comparison Chart Communiy Narabe. (By the way, Akky is seeking Narabe’s business partner for major markets in other languages. Engineers/Web Designers are also wanted. can be contacted to his sirname at gmail.com)
For 3 days per week, Akky is working for Cybozu Labs as a professional blogger. By it he got Alphabloggers Award which given to Japanese A-listers.
Besides being blogger/entrepreneur, he has software engineering background and loves Manga.
Akky Akimoto’s personal blog [J]
Shunichi Arai
Arai is a president of software consultant company mellowtone Inc. Living in Fukuoka, Kyushu.
Japanese government entitled Arai as a ‘genius programmer/super creator’[pdf] in its famous software engineer support program “Mitou Project”. He is also known by his blog and social activities for software engineers.
Shunichi Arai have studied Korean language in Seoul for 4 months. Shun loves Korean culture, food, and people.
Serkan Toto
Serkan is a German based in Tokyo. Like us, he is passionate about introducing Japanese IT to the rest of the world. Currently, Serkan is Director of Marketing at iKnow, a social learning platform.
He is also an author for mega tech blog TechCrunch/CrunchGear, covering Japan-related technology and web trends.
Hiroumi Mitani
Hiroumi is working at international development office of Rakuten. He is the first guy who contacted us for joining. He is also an well-known blogger by his Japanese blog.
Andrew Shuttleworth
Mobile consultant, the hub of Tokyo expat communities Andrew has been helping Asiajin a lot. He is the organizer of Tokyo 2point0 and several other events.
Wataru Yamaki
Young student/IT Consultant who is graduating Keio University. He is interested in working abroad to become an international entrepreneur.
Sean O’Hagan
Sean is a Canadian based in west Tokyo. Sean runs an English school and in his spare time, he writes, edits, and plays with code. He has appeared on mega tech blog TechCrunch exactly one time.
Satoko Hibi
We are asking her profile.
Others
We have contributors who are researching in Japanese, native speakers who revise English (if too wrong to convey info). Thanks Andrew, Tokuriki and Robert.
How we started
Asiajin is founded by two Japanese bloggers, Akky AKIMOTO and Shunichi Arai. The official launch date is December 13th, 2007, though we had been preparing some articles before public release.
We need your help
Asian Intenet people are not strongly tied. Language barrier is a big problem when we communicate with other countries’ people. So, Asian startups are not well known outside of their own countries.
We want it to be changed.
We want to create strong ties between Asian countries.
We want to give them a chance to gain International attention, funding, and chance of acquisition.
If you are living in Asia, and want to help us, please let me know your country’s famour websites, charming startups, or active technology/business communities. Asiajin welcomes your articles!
Please send your interesting net service info to us, 
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