How I got my first article in Japanese published
5 May 2008
Although I don’t know one word of Japanese, I did get an article published in the April 9th Edition of Fuji Sankei Business-i newspaper, which is being circulated to 200,000 readers a day nationwide. This is how it happened.
At the end of last March, I received an email from Masaru Ikeda. He’s running a system integration company in Tokyo and writes a weekly column about Internet innovations for the Sankei Newspaper. Masaru mailed me that he’d love to come to the Next Web Conference – which my partners from The Next Web Blog organized – but he had to stay in Tokyo for “business reasons”. Therefore, he asked me to write a column that he would translate in Japanese. And so it happened. It wrote the story, Masaru translated it, and he was so kind to sent me some copies.
But that’s not the end of it. Our overseas journalistic adventure ended with a grand finale in San Fransisco last week, where we met during Web 2.0 Expo. At moments like these, I take every word from McLuhan’s Global Village for granted.
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Tags: Fuji Sankei Business-i, Global Village, Japan, journalism, Masaru Ikeda, newspaper
Wow, that is awesome! Can we read the English version of the column somewhere? :)
great idea Edial, I’ll search my sent items for that!
Congrats Ernst-Jan … now you have really made it over here… time for that trip you were talking about ;)
Hi, Ernst-Jan, how’re you doing?
I’d better turn the strobe on, because it was againt the light when we asked
someone to take this picture.
My weekly columns for the newspaper was ended at the end of April
because of the editorial’s policy change, and now I’m preparing to write and
publish a book featuring Web 2.0 entirely. See you very soon somewhere.