28 years old

Today is my 28th birthday.
This year is going to be a big year for me.  The keyword of this year is "Challenge."
I'll start running my company by March, and be really an entrepreneur.
Not only about business, I'll do challenge a lot.
I'll make lots of friends, work for my health, and spend happy days.

Came back to this blog.

I haven't written entries for a long time.
When was the last time I wrote?
Oh, the last entry was while I was working at Sony for my first career.  Since then, I had experienced so many changes.

Don't worry. I've been super fine.
Now I'm facing a big change, and it's a very positive one.
I've started a new project with one of my engineer friends, besides my regular job. It's a really exciting one, I believe. In the project, I'll help domestice manifacturer start business with overseas companies.
There are some steps for the business.
The first is just to make their websites translated to English.
 Then the next step, we'll expand the business more not just by making companies websites. We haven't decided the second business will be yet. However, we can now make a image what it should be.

I wrote above very randomly and maybe it's not easy to understand what I want to tell.
I just wrote because I wanted to restart this blog. I'll update!

Officially done with all the training curriculum for new employees.

I'm finally done with the job training the last Friday.
As I wrote in the last post, the actual work is starting from August 1st which is tomorrow!!

Yeah, the long-lasted training finally finished..
I worked on a group project in which I collaborated with 5 other members the last 1 and half months.
We built a web system in the project, and I was a leader in the group.

To tell the truth, the period was one of the hardest time in the last couple of years.
I realized how difficult to be a leader in a project in work.
I have experienced the role of leader many times since I was a kid, but I hadn't got a big responsibility in those experiences and I think the biggest reason was we were all students.

This time,however, it was a lot different.
We experienced working at a company, and not at school for the first time in our lives.
As the time goes by, it was obvious that the atmosphere of the group had become worse, and it influenced the morale of members.

I also sometimes felt like I am powerless to what I couldn't get the things forward.
I had always thought how I can solve this critical problem and make a better team even when I relax at home.

So, I think I learned so many important things the last 1and half months or so, and probably I couldn't have experienced them if I were still a student.


Yeah, and about the result.
We could make the system in time and it was what we expected to make first.
We were all relieved to end up with a good result.


Also, we had a presentation in each group in the last day of the training period, and our team got the 1st prize in that event!
I was so happy that our presentation was highly evaluated in the end, and especially as a leader.

In the closing time, only I had to make a speech to in front of managers of the company as a representative of new employees.
They were all good experiences in the last couple of months.

I want to start my own business in the future, but it was definitely good for me to have experienced the teamplay.
Again, I realized we cannot do anything alone, and we thank each other.

Looking back the last 4 months at Sony

It has passed almost 4 months since I started to work at Sony.
Although I say "I started to work" above, I haven't officially started the actual job yet.
The last 4 months were training period for new workers in IT Department.
After the long lasted 4 months training, I'll finally be assigned to an actual job on August 1st.


As the title shows, however, I'm not satisfied with the job honestly.
Some people say it is because I graduated from college recently, which means I was free as a student but I am not anymore. I now belong to a community where we are at least demanded a sacrifice to be a member of the company.

Also, you might say that all people have such feeling in the first year of work, and they will reduce it as the time goes by.

However, I do not think this is because it's the first year to work at a company and lessen this strange feeling I already have. I like being "free" and hate being oppressed by a big power.
I think I have done a lot of things differently and tried to be unique since I was a child.

Moreover, I think there are many people who like working for big companies, but what I am sure about is I'm not that kind of person. I like myself most when I challenge and work on new things.
I realized that it's not easy to get me excited at a big company like Sony.
I worked an internship at a startup company after I was back from study abroad in US over 2 years ago. It was a very challenging environment and I spent really busy days, but it was always fun to work there.
I could feel I make the business forward and excited.

I always cherished the feeling if I get excited when I work.
However, I don't think I will have such excitement in my current job, and I'm a little scared of getting accustomed to the ways of a big company.
It's nothing matters if I want to get lots of money and spend the "normal life", but I can not be satisfied with that life.
I want to be excited and work for what I really like.

I know it is difficult, but that is what I seek for in my life.

I've actually thought about those worries since I started working in April and I thought very deeply especially the last couple of weeks, and I think I now found an answer, though it's still not clear yet.

First, I start a business.
Next, I leave the company after I found even a small chance to succeed in that business, and set up my own company in another country.

I hope I can get to the second step in a year.
I know it's really a tough process, but there is no reason I don't try.

I'm now 23 and I think the time when I am young is very limited. I don't want to finish my 20's without doing what I want to do from bottom of my heart.
Now I set up a goal, and I never quit until I accomplish it!!

From now, I look for a topic which I can be involved in.


The below is a citation from a famous speech of Steave Jobs at Stanford's graduation ceremony.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Yeah, I gotta do what I wanna do!!

New Blog

I started a new blog, which tells the situation we're experiencing in Japan.

The link is below.
"Updates and Thoughts from Japan"

Although the power is very small, this is what I can do.
I want many people to know this terrible situation through this blog...

iPad's Day!!

Just wanted to write about what I've been looking forward to hear.

Today, Steave Jobs announced the new device iPad to the public.

From this morning, I've been excited by it. I read so many articles about it. I think I have a bit advantage on it because I'm able to read articles in English.

I first read articles in Japanese, but there were few and people were translating the resources in English to Japanese. Then, I switched to read English one.

Actually now, I'm watching a video of the Apple Event in this morning.

To tell the truth, I have a presentation of my class an hour later. However, my current priority now watching the video.... haha....

Oh boy, I'm a bad student....

Difference of the Internet between in English and in Japanese

As the title shows, I'm going to write about the difference of the Internet between in English and in Japanese.

Actually I've tried to express my ideas on this topic for a long time, but I was just so lazy that I didn't spend time for the post about this...

I don't say that I'm well informed about both of them, but I think I know the difference much more than other people. It is because I've used the internet in both languages.
I used only the English one the last year while I studied in US. Also, I saw many of my friends enjoying on the web and got to know how they use the internet.
I noticed there are big difference of how people use Internet at least in US and Japan.
Now, I first show my main idea about this.
I think the internet in English has become a part of people's life a lot more than in Japanese. I even think that the internet in Japanese has become in a wrong direction because of the anonymous character of its own. However, I think the internet in English has more where people have intellectual activities.

Take examples of SNS popular in US and Japan.
Facebook is definitely the most popular SNS in US and also in the worldwide. I don't need to explain facebook here.
In Japan, Mixi is the most popular. A few people use facebook. Although I have an account on Mixi, I don't use it much. On Mixi, they don't post their picture and show even their name (most people use their nick name.) So, it's really hard to find my friends in junior high or high school. I can't hit their name on the search box.
So, the society in Mixi is completely apart from the real life and people. I doubt this type of communication works. On facebook, we can keep friendship with whom we met only once but didn't change numbers. It passed a long time since I left US, but I can get to know how my friends are having life through facebook because the society there is just the copy of the real world.

As in the case of SNS, we have a big anonymous culture on the web in Japanese. Many people tend to hesitate showing their name. Therefore, people easily criticize other people on the web. Yahoo!Japan is the most popular search engine, but we can easily see such bad comments on many news pages without showing their name.
Many people in US now hunt for a job on sites such as LinkedIn. However, we are not so open to show ourselves on the web, and we don't have such a site. I think it will take time until we have such web site.

I'm very worried about the future of the internet in Japanese. People who don't use the net so much regard it as a bad culture. But I believe it's not. How we use the internet is the problem.
I started hunting for a job, and I will mainly apply for IT companies. But, my parents don't have a good image towards IT itself. I explained that IT industry is not totally for the end consumers. It has more field like B to B. They got a bit relieved when I finished explaining it.
I hope people eliminates bad images of IT itself when they heard the word someday soon.
And, I do hope the internet in Japanese goes to the right direction.