About Wireless Watch Japan

Founded in 2001, Wireless Watch Japan is the original, independent English news source on Japan’s mobile industry and provides in-depth and original coverage via news reports, analytical articles, streaming video & audio programs and a free email newsletter. Our membership includes managers, executives, analysts, business planners, engineers, marketers, product developers and researchers from Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

WWJ staff consists of experienced, Japan-tech-savvy professional journalists and business analysts based in Tokyo and abroad. All are plugged-in, analytical, and skeptical - and are dedicated to providing our community with the best news, analysis, and commentary to help cut through the mis-information and hype that surrounds Japan’s mobile Internet.

Wireless Watch Japan is a division of Mobikyo K.K., Tokyo. Mobikyo’s core business is the production and dissemination of media content, market intelligence and business information aimed at those seeking to establish, expand or strengthen their commercial relations with Japan’s wireless and IT industries.

Mobikyo also organizes Mobile Monday Tokyo events, operates custom Mobile Intelligence Japan guided missions to Tokyo and publishes the Wireless-Watch Community website. Contact us Here.

Daniel Scuka

Originally from Toronto, Daniel moved to Tokyo in 1994, where he initially freelanced as a patent engineer and later worked for Fuji Xerox. In 1999, he joined the editorial staff of J@pan Inc magazine, where he covered wireless business and technology, entrepreneurship, tech ventures, and Internet-related issues. Since October 2001 he has worked freelance, writing for J@pan Inc magazine and publications in the US, the UK, and elsewhere. Daniel has been quoted by the BBC and other media, and he coauthored the “i-Mode Developer’s Guide” (ISBN 0-672-32188-2) released by Addison Wesley Professional in April 2002. He has taught mobile marketing at the International University of Japan (IUJ), has worked as a freelance researcher and analyst for several consulting and market data companies in Japan, the UK, and Canada, and is a frequent speaker at industry-related events. Daniel launched the Wireless Watch Japan weekly newsletter in March 2001, and since August 2003, he has been based near Frankfurt.

Lawrence Cosh-Ishii

As founding partner of Wireless Watch Japan in 2001, ‘Lars’ has developed a unique understanding of the Japanese mobile industry and he has interviewed carriers, handset makers and many content, service and application providers as well as numerous mobile thought leaders. Often quoted by overseas media he regularly speaks at conferences overseas and, based in Tokyo, is a frequent contact point for visiting executives. Lawrence established Video-Link.com, an Authorized Microsoft Media Service Provider, in 1998 and his experience in production and distribution of internet video includes; shooting, editing, compression and Java video encoding techniques, mobile broadcast contents, live event stream programming and embedded close-caption translation coding.

Independent Contributors

Steve Myers is president and chief enthusiast of Theta Music Technologies, which specializes in the development of music-related software applications. Jan Kuczynski is an analyst at W2F who focuses on emerging trends and technologies. Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson runs What Japan Thinks which has a significant collection of Japanese opinion polls and market research translated into English.

Past Contributors

Paul Kallender

Paul Kallender’s second tour in Tokyo started in 2001 when he returned from New York as the Electronic Engineering Times’ Tokyo correspondent covering semiconductors, memory, and basic research. This is Paul’s second stint at wireless coverage after he contributed to lightreading.com in 2002. Having written for Wired Japan, Forbes Global Online and a knapsack of local magazines, Paul, a native of London, enjoys throwing questions almost as much as people (which he does after hours on the karate dojo). He has journalist weapons, such as The Horgan Prize for Excellence in Science Writing (awarded by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism) and a gong from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, stuffed in his hakama, although he is prepared to admit that the sword can be mightier than the pen.

Gail Nakada

Gail Nakada is a Tokyo-based journalist specializing in Asian business, technology, emerging enterprises and pop culture. An American from Palo Alto, California — right in the the heart of Silicon Valley — Gail got her start in Tokyo back in the 80s as associate editor for Tokyo Journal magazine; she later became Japan correspondent for Media and Marketing magazine and PATA Travel News and contributing editor to Far East Traveler (all at the same time). Gail has worked with CBS Marketwatch, writing the Asia Internet Daily column, and her work has appeared in Smart Business, Business 2.0 and Wired magazine plus a number of Asia-based publications. She is also a contributing editor to MobilePC magazine and writes their ‘Straight Outta’ Tokyo’ technology column every month.