{"id":42,"date":"2007-12-13T00:11:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/asiajin-launches\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T00:11:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:11:49","slug":"asiajin-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/asiajin-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiajin launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to announce the arrival of a weblog called &#8216;Asiajin&#8217; which introduces Asian Internet startups to English speaking readers.<br \/>\nAsiajin 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.<br \/>\nYou may or may not already know us &#8212; &#8220;Akky&#8221; (Hiroki Akimoto) and Shunichi Arai &#8211; as we have been active bloggers on the Japanese scene for some time now. <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.cybozu.co.jp\/blog\/akky\/\">Akky&#8217;s weblog<\/a> was voted &#8216;Alpha blogger&#8217;, one of the most prominent blogger awards in Japan whereas the Japanese government identified Arai as a &#8216;genius programmer&#8217;.<br \/>\nWe 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.<br \/>\nOur objectives are to introduce Asian startups to the world and to strengthen relations between Asian Internet communities.<br \/>\nAsiajin means &#8216;Asian people&#8217; in Japanese and the name was chosen in order to act as a unifying catalyst for the market in Asia.<br \/>\nAt 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.<br \/>\nPlease contact &#8216;asiajin.info at gmail dot com&#8217; for more information.<br \/>\nAsiajin team. <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/\">http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to announce the arrival of a weblog called &#8216;Asiajin&#8217; 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/asiajin-launches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asiajin launches<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}