About
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, Hiroki
Akky is a professional blogger working for Cybozu Labs. By the blog he got Alphabloggers Award 2006, which given to influencial bloggers in Japanese blogosphere. He has working in the industry as a programmer/project manager for years including projects in England, San Francisco USA and Ho Chi Minh City, Viet nam. Strong at internationalization and release engineering.
As a company blogger, he takes Robert Scoble as his role model. He becomes part-timer for Cybozu Labs recently, to use more of his time for Asiajin and his own (yet secret) net service.
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. He is sharing a passion with us to introduce Japanese IT to the rest of the world. Currently, Serkan prepares to start his own IT company in Tokyo. He runs a his own blog ‘Tokyotronic‘ on Japanese IT.
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.
Satoko Toyoda
Newly joined Asiajin author. We are asking her profile now.
Others
We have contributors who are researching in Japanese, native speakers who revise English (if too wrong to convey info). They will be listed here soon.
How we started
Asiajin is founded by two Japanese bloggers, “Akky” AKIMOTO, Hiroki 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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