Asiajin

We have sent e-mail to people who had applied for the first Asiajin Meeting Tokyo at Cybozu Labs, Tameike-San’nou, Minatoku. Please check your e-mail for the event detail. If you need to salvage your spam folder, our sender domain of the mail is, as you might guess, “asiajin.com”.

We are sorry for people to whom we are unabled to secure seats. Please wait event reports from participants. We hope this first one goes well then we will hold another meeting soon.

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Tags: Announcement by Akky Akimoto
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We are going to hold our first readers’ meeting on 2/26 (Tue) night.

Asiajin Meeting Tokyo

The meeting will include 5-6 English presentations about 1. popular net services in Japan, or 2. their project/product. Those presentation will be in English by Japanese web entrepreneurs/developers, all of whom heavily use Japanese net services everyday at their office and home.

As it is “Asiajin” meeting, we are aiming at networking under inter-cultural/inter-language atomosphere by this meeting. We are expecting 10-15 non-Japanese Asiajin readers as audience.

At this point, we are asking presentation to several interesting persons, such like a successful blog service director, a huge student BBS founder, serial mashup-sites creator, etc.

Also, non-native-Japanese-speakers’ Japanese presentation are welcome. If no slots are open we will be able to have yours at the 2nd meeting. If you are a perfect J/E bilingual or super linguist, you are supposed to help our meeting as a bilingual presentation mentor

Who should attend?

We are expecting foreighners in Tokyo who are interested in Web/IT and Japanese/English communication. For some presenters, this might be the first time English presentation in their lives. We expect your kind help to improve their English presentation skills and welcome practicing your Japanese in the discussion, too.

Timetable

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Power and WiFi are available for guest. The meeting room is kindly sponsered by Cybozu Labs so there is no fee required.

Please secure your seat by submitting following form.

Thank you for your interests. Application was closed

supplemental info for Japanese readers

* 基本的に聞き手には東京在住の外国人を募集しています。日本語が第一言語の方は英語でのプレゼンテーション必須です(他人作の日本語のサービス紹介等でも可。5分以上目安)。予定されるプレゼンテーションのテーマをコメントに書いてください。話者多数の場合は2回目にお願いする可能性があります。

Tags: Announcement, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Probably you may noticed that two new editors joined Asiajin. It’s a big first step to make Asiajin to be a renowned blog about Japanese and Asian IT.

Hiroumi Mitani is working at international development office of Rakuten. He is the first guy who contacted us for joining. His Japanese blog is here.

Serkan Toto 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.

It’s really delightful to welcome two passionate bloggers to Asiajin. Please expect us to produce a lot of great articles this year!

Tags: Announcement by shunichi arai
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We’d like to announce the arrival of a weblog called ‘Asiajin’ which introduces Asian Internet startups to English speaking readers.

Asiajin will provide you information about Asian Internet trends, company profiles, key people, communities, conferences and events. We provide you essential information for professionals who want to do business in Asian market.

You may or may not already know us — “Akky” (Hiroki Akimoto) and Shunichi Arai - as we have been active bloggers on the Japanese scene for some time now. Akky’s weblog was voted ‘Alpha blogger’, one of the most prominent blogger awards in Japan whereas the Japanese government identified Arai as a ‘genius programmer’.

We both have technology backgrounds and a deep interest in the Internet industry and after attending a Web related conference in San Francisco, became concerned that Asian startups may be virtually invisible to the rest of the world.

Our objectives are to introduce Asian startups to the world and to strengthen relations between Asian Internet communities.

Asiajin means ‘Asian people’ in Japanese and the name was chosen in order to act as a unifying catalyst for the market in Asia.

At present Asiajin provides articles regarding Japanese companies and is gradually expanding itself to cover broader areas. Two Taiwanese journalists are expected to contribute to Asiajin and Korean startups are expected to be covered in the near future.

Please contact ‘asiajin.info at gmail dot com’ for more information.

Asiajin team. http://asiajin.com/blog/

Tags: Announcement by shunichi arai
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