You can check his articles (in Japanese) on SankeiBiz website. Please follow the link below.
July 25th, “Can Quora survive?”
Aug 1st, “You can be a hotel too, with airbnb.”
Aug 8th, “The Global threat of cyber espionage: hackers eyeing Japan”
Aug 22nd, “A Peek into Groupon”
Aug 29th, “Playing games with Zynga”
Sep 5th, “Dropbox takes cloud mainstream”
Sep 19th, “For Apple, Cash is Power”
Sep 26th, “facebook becomes more FRICTIONLESS”
Oct 3rd, “Amazon’s Fire needs content to burn”
Oct 10th, “Incubation funds, where giants are born”
Oct 17th, “Byliner reinvents book publishing”

If so, we want you! No experience necessary, but a open mind and willingness to learn.

Join us as a partnership manager!

The partnership manager is responsible for acquiring new content and marketing partners. In this role you will work with our Operations team to ensure we are delivering what we promised to our partner. Communication skills are important, you are expected to bridge the communication between the Operations team to manage the fast roll-out and deployment of new partnerships. Once a partnership is established you are responsible for ensuring that our partners are benefiting from new marketing techniques we develop to increase acquisitions per month. You will work with content partners and identify new markets and decide on pricing for those markets. This position is reports to the Director of Marketing.

Accountable for:

• Increasing the number of partnerships signed per month
• Increasing the amount of clients signed per partner
• Decreasing the time to market for new partners

Language Requirements: Japanese Fluent / English Conversational

1. Do you like hacking together cool apps in your spare time?
2. Are you comfortable with PHP? Interested in Ruby on Rails?
3. Do some people think you are kinda geeky?

If yes, we want you!
Our application developers are responsible for developing applications related to e-learning, online marketing and e-commerce. We are constantly developing and innovating and we want developers on our team who can handle a rapidly changing environment. Consistency is the key to growth and our ability to create happy clients. This means automation of repetitive tasks to eliminate inefficiencies through the development of innovative tools and applications. This position reports to the Director of Operation.

Accountable for:

The primary purpose of these applications is to both promote JT’s brand and increase JT’s revenues from overseas. Please see below for more details.

1. Product Name
(1)Japan Times: Hiragana Trainer
(2)Japan Times: Katakana Trainer
(3)Japan Times: Kana Trainer Deluxe

2. Price
(1)&(2): ￥230（US$1.99）
(3): ￥350（US$2.99）

3. Features: Learn Hiragana and Katakana anywhere, anytime using an iPhone . Aside from being able to choose the variation of Hiragana or Katakana you want to learn, you can also choose multiple choice mode, flashcard mode, direct entry mode, and other options.

4.Availability: Available worldwide on Apple’s App Store

The Japan Times and Land Rush Group will follow up with more iPhone applications such as for learning Kanji and expand the online product lineup.

*Regarding the trademarks:the product names and pronouns found above are the registered trademarks or each company’s trademark.

For further questions, please contact:
Mr. Takeharu Tsutsumi
Management Department
The Japan Times
TEL:03-3453-5312