Translation for Impact Hub Tokyo

About the Project

We covered Japanese startups, social enterprises, NGOs, entrepreneurs, solopreneuers, and self-sustaining programs that serve customers and create value for Japan. We cover founders’ stories and learnings to share knowledge and concrete takeaways for other entrepreneurs and innovators in East Asia. Our posts can cover a wide range of topics such as Japanese technology companies, consumer apps, aging populations, health tech, IoT, education and edtech, recycling and upcycling, employment for low-income households, social services for minorities. These services can provided in Japan and include expansions to markets in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Our case studies focus on product development, business development, growth hacking, team culture, leadership, work-life balance, triple bottom line businesses, startup fundraising, and startup exits.

Editorial Team

The editors of Business 3.0 have tech startup, social enterprise, social innovation, and impact investing experiences.

We are in pursuit of people who prove us wrong. We say “wrong” because there is nothing wrong with being wrong — it is simply that our way of seeing the world has been challenged. We want to constantly recalibrate and expand our ways of seeing the world, of radically challenging ourselves to stay humble in the pursuit of being open-minded.

Ten Tang

Ten is the operations co-founder for Business 3.0. Coming from the business stream, Ten is currently in charge of customer success in a Hong Kong tech startup. Ten has a strong interest in studying thriving businesses that do not make fund raising or profit making the only goal. Ten hosts coffee gatherings for the Hong Kong tech community and would like to share founders’ insights from those conversations with the global community. In 2014, she taught herself web development when she founded her first startup and still codes regularly. She was previously the Chinese editor of the Hong Kong Democratic Classroom.

Michelle Lai

Michelle is part of the Tokyo writing team that translates Japanese startup and founder stories into English. Michelle is currently working in a global retail company in Japan. In her spare time, she doodles, takes photos and does a little design. Michelle has been interested in startups since university especially in social enterprises. She believes that business can be a force for good contrary to the popular belief of the evil corporation.

Yuki Fujimoto

Yuki is part of the Tokyo writing team that translates Japanese startup and founder content into English. Yuki is a cooking scientist in Tokyo who shares her Japanese home cooking recipes on her blog, Yuki’s Cooking Lab. With a university major in chemistry, she previously worked in multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies for a number of years. In early 2018, she began offering traditional Japanese, Washoku cooking classes for travellers in her home, which also includes a guided tour of the historical Tokyo district Yanesen and its local groceries. Yuki is passionate about sharing her family’s miso-making knowledge and also offers a unique Japanese regional miso tasting experience.

Connect with Yuki on Instagram.