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Based in Tokyo since 1986. -lately in Seoul half the time.Founder and CEO of Enfour Group.Developing software for Asian language display, DTP and printing since 1992. (MacOS, Postscript, TrueType coding)Released many breakthrough products to Japanese market.An early evangelist for Unicode and created the first multilingual text input method.Subcontracted developer support services for Apple Japan.Main force behind emoji adoption in the 90's -well before the iPhone or even DoCoMo's imode.PDAs and 1st generation SmartPhones software since 1993. (Newton, PalmOS, WindowsCE, Nokia, etc.)Wrote the first third-party mobile app ever (AddToDict -August 5th 1993)Supplied core OS language technologies to Apple, Psion and Sony.Custom OS and hardware development, plus UI QA for mobile phone Operating Systems. (Nokia, Symbian, etc.)Official mobile phone content provider on all Japanese carriers since 2001 (iMode, Softbank, KDDI).Developed many SmartPhone applications -especially dictionaries and reference material.Sold more than $15mil worth of iOS apps.Now working to bring publishing, TV and music into the next stage of the Web using Blockchain 3.0 and Web 3.0Main customers and partners:AppleNTT DoCoMoSoftbankKDDIPearson EducationHarper CollinsOxford University PressYale University PressCambridge University PressHoughton MifflinKiriharaKenkyushaNikkeiBPSpecialties: Software development for SmartPhones & tablets, mobile phone UI design & QA.Language technology, reference material and machine translation.Media & entertainment industry and digital rights.Asian markets in general.Side bar: Long-time martial artist - JuJitsu, Kendo and more.2nd in an All Japan Kyokushin tournament twice.1st in a bunch of other Kyokushin tournaments.1st in Open Free-Style Karate. (Senior division)

Listed skills include Martial Arts, Mobile Applications, Android, Software Development, and 26 others.