{"id":14,"date":"2007-10-29T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T23:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/mochio-umeda-japans-leading-web-visionary\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T23:45:24","slug":"mochio-umeda-japans-leading-web-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/mochio-umeda-japans-leading-web-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochio Umeda &#8211; Japan&#8217;s leading web visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mochio Umeda lives in the Bay Area but he is very influential in Japan. His best selling book, &#8216;Web Shinkaron&#8217;, was excitedly accepted by business people.<br \/>\nHis word is straight-forward and impassioned. He describes what is Google, what is the Web 2.0, what is open source. Those things were not well understood by the Japanese older business populations.<br \/>\nJoi Ito is the best known Japanese visionary and blogger in the world but Umeda is a much more well-known visionary inside Japan.<br \/>\nUmeda is doing some consulting and also runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/pacificafund.com\/\">VC firm<\/a>. Umeda is a board member of the Japanese web startup &#8216;Hatena&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mochio Umeda lives in the Bay Area but he is very influential in Japan. His best selling book, &#8216;Web Shinkaron&#8217;, was excitedly accepted by business people. His word is straight-forward and impassioned. He describes what is Google, what is the Web 2.0, what is open source. Those things were not well understood by the Japanese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/mochio-umeda-japans-leading-web-visionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mochio Umeda &#8211; Japan&#8217;s leading web visionary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-person","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}