I met someone working on Fintech... It’s his name card.

I’m thinking we’re very close.

You know, we argued that always new technology face regulation problems right?, and it is very difficult to test in Tokyo because it is too big to test, however, Fukuoka city is the best place to those test it. This is also the important point.

Before, Japan is one of the most difficult country to get a working VISA, however, thanks to special economic zone for startups, Fukuoka city started tp provide startup VISA for foreign Entrepreneurs. This is very good outcome of Special economic zone for Fukuoka city.

Yeah, Fukuoka. How to build. This is difficult to answer. But Fukuoka City and Fukuoka D.C. had submitted the application for special economic zone for startups in 2013. Then the national government approved Fukuoka City as a special economic zone in 2014.

That’s great. Very advanced approach. We have very strong connection between Taipei City and Fukuoka City. Maybe we can exchange some good examples or cases.

Oh, wow, good.

Not the best but a little bit better.

Yes, yes.

This is good. Actually, the Fukuoka City is a special economic zone in Japan for startups, so this is the point. New technology service like Uber or Airbnb, or Unmanned car or Drone or whatever, always face regulation problem, however, we can try to deregulate those rules or regulation. Because ...

Wow.

Just the exhibition, as this company.

Yeah.

This is just a support job. I really have many titles now. but leading innovation is the main. [laughs]

In addition, from April, I’ll be a visiting associate professor at Nagoya Univerisity.

Actually, I have several titles, haha.

My consultant client is...Now the main customer is Fukuoka D.C. Fukuoka D.C. is kind of economic organization and one of their purpose is connecting to the big company and small company, and lead the open innovation. We’d love to make new value, create innovation and so on. I have a ...

I hired him (Kosuke) two months ago and tried to expand this business especially in Taiwan.

Actually, it depends on the project. Over the past two years, I supported more than 10 companies, and three companies already established a company in Fukuoka. I think it has a space to expand.

...list some approachable customers, and then approach. After that, they will need to establish a company in Japan. So, my point is like, if they hire the person in Japan, or send the person to Japan, it leads to continuous expenditure and costs a lot. I t is also difficult ...

Then I found that startup companies want to expand their business to Japan, but they don’t have inforamtion about expand their buisness to Japan,itis quite difficult to understand the Japan business culture, custom and so on. So, we provides those information like marketing research, report and actual support when they ...

Nice to meet you.

Hi. My name is Yuta.