🇯🇵 Startup media in Japan

Startup media in Japan

• James Riney

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  CEO and founding partner of Coral Capital, known for bilingual blogging that helped standardise the J-KISS seed contract.

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• Ken Nishimura

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Former chief editor of TechCrunch Japan, who grew TechCrunch Tokyo into the country's largest startup event at the time; now at Coral Capital.

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• Yusuke Asakura

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Former Mixi CEO, now investing and writing on startups, and one of Japan's most-followed startup voices on X.

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• Hiroyuki Nishimura

  Media · Paris (Japanese audience) · Free access

  Founder of 2channel and a very widely followed Japanese commentator on business and the internet.

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• Yusaku Maezawa

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Founder of ZOZOTOWN, one of Japan's best-known entrepreneurs on social media.

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• NewsPicks

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Japanese business news platform with strong coverage of startups, founders and the tech industry.

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• PIVOT

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Japanese business video media founded by Kosuke Sasaki, featuring founders, investors and executives.

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• Kosuke Sasaki

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Founder of the business media PIVOT and former editor-in-chief of NewsPicks.

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• ASCII STARTUP

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  ASCII's startup section, covering Japanese startups, funding and events.

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• Forbes JAPAN

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Japanese edition of Forbes, publishing startup rankings and founder profiles.

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• Tim Romero

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Host of Disrupting Japan and a founder in Tokyo, interviewing Japanese founders in English.

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• THE BRIDGE

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Japanese startup media covering funding, founders and the Tokyo ecosystem, in Japanese and English.

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• Disrupting Japan (podcast)

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Tim Romero's podcast interviewing Japanese startup founders and investors in English.

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• Nikkei Asia

  Media · Tokyo · Free access

  Nikkei's English-language business newsroom, covering Japanese and Asian startups and venture capital.

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