Did you know that WordPress users in Japan have meetups dedicated just to eating crab in the Fukui prefecture? WP Tavern has has a fantastic article on Community, Translation, and Wapuu: How Japan is Shaping WordPress History. There is so much that is quotable, just check out the entire thing!
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I just read on Detlog there is a WordPress Japan meetup in Okayama on July 1. I just got a copy of a new Japanese WP book and it looks pretty neat. I'd love to make it to Japan and one of these meetups someday.
Noel goes to Japan (and blogs it with WordPress). Unicode support should come in handy.
When I was last in Tokyo I sat down with Lifehacker Japan and they have a long interview in Japanese and some photos from the trip. I don't remember what I said, but the Google Translate version is pretty hilarious.
We desperately need more support for woocommerce in Japan, almost non existent now in paying gateways.
Hope Automattic acquisition will help with this!
The article Matt shared, Inspired me to write a blogpost about the challenges of WordPress in Japan and connecting the community with the rest of the world. I´m planning to help japanese people move forward with improving wordpress and so the improvement of WooCommerce would also be part of that. You guys could check out my article I wrote about that. I would appreciate your help.
http://norntale.com/connecting-the-japanese-wordpress-community/