{"id":12875,"date":"2011-02-15T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12875"},"modified":"2011-02-15T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:25:42","slug":"which-foreign-startups-are-doing-well-in-japan-under-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/which-foreign-startups-are-doing-well-in-japan-under-the-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan &#8220;Under The Radar&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12486\" title=\"japan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/japan-400x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc.<br \/>\nBut what about startups that don&#8217;t have huge budgets to internationalize, no staff in Japan and &#8211; in some cases &#8211; not even a Japanese user interface (usually a dealbreaker for most local web users).<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a recent (yet surely incomplete) list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instagram (we just recently <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/japan-gets-how-to-use-instagram-book\/\">reported<\/a> about the silly printed how-to-use-Instagram book available in Japan)<\/li>\n<li>Foursquare (KDDI wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/kddi-agrees-to-assist-foursquares-promotion-and-support-in-japan\/\">help<\/a> Foursquare to become bigger in this country)<\/li>\n<li>Bump<\/li>\n<li>Hootsuite<\/li>\n<li>Jimdo<\/li>\n<li>Tweetdeck<\/li>\n<li>Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/01\/28\/karp-tumblr-quarter-billion-impressions-week\/\">official<\/a> data submitted from Tumblr <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/01\/28\/karp-tumblr-quarter-billion-impressions-week\/\">to Quantcast<\/a> shows Japan is their No. 5 market worldwide)<\/li>\n<li>Seesmic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2010, Evernote<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/06\/23\/evernote-japan\/\"> established an office in Japan<\/a>, the company&#8217;s No. 2 market worldwide, so it can&#8217;t really be part of this list &#8211; even though the app was already very popular before that.<br \/>\nWhich foreign web and mobile startups flying under the radar in Japan have we forgotten?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that in recent years, quite a few foreign (mostly American) web brands have made it big in Japan: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon etc. But what about startups that don&#8217;t have huge budgets to internationalize, no staff in Japan and &#8211; in some cases &#8211; not even a Japanese user interface (usually&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/which-foreign-startups-are-doing-well-in-japan-under-the-radar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Which Foreign Startups Are Doing Well In Japan &#8220;Under The Radar&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,29,36,37],"tags":[516,1104,1569,1695,3263,3835],"class_list":["post-12875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-service","category-trend","category-usa","tag-bump","tag-evernote","tag-hootsuite","tag-instagram","tag-seesmic","tag-tumblr","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}