For Enjoyable Global Communications
For Enjoyable Global Communications
Company Name
Yaraku, Inc.
Location
16F Link Square Shinjuku, 5-27-5 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Since
August 2009
CEO
Suguru Sakanishi
Number of staff
29 (For information about job opportunities, please see Careers.)
Capital
¥ 363,961,000 (including capital reserve)
Investor
Konica Minolta, Inc., Advanced Media, Inc., Sony Network Communications Inc., Dogan Beta Inc, Board members, employees etc.
Business
Develop and continually improve our tool for optimizing multilingual communication
CEO
Suguru Sakanishi
CTO
Jonas Rydenhag
Outside Director
Yuichi Yatsuhashi (Former BCG Partner)
Outside Director
Shinichiro Tamaki (Wakaru Office)
Outside Auditor
Yoshiaki Omori
Shuichi Matsuda
Waseda University
Tomohito Ebine
Mobcast
Masataka Matsumoto
WiL
Nobuaki Chonan
CPA
Kotaro Furuuchi
Management Design•Partners
From Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, he moved to New York to work for an online marketing company for several years. He then returned to Japan and established Yaraku. Winner of many business contests.
From Sweden. After working in web development in Gothenburg for eight years, he decided to move to Japan and joined Yaraku. As the head of the development team, he deals with a variety of operations.
From Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, he worked for seven years at an accounting firm in Tokyo. Has worked with over 100 companies. He has been working in financial accounting and various back-office operations in Yaraku since the company’s creation.
From Singapore. Graduated from Nanyang Technological University where he studied linguistics. After graduation, he got his professor’s recommendation to join Yaraku. His hobby is online gaming. He deals with technical support and project management.
From Ukraine. Graduated from Donbass College of Engineering, majoring in computer science. After working as a freelance software developer for several years, he joined Yaraku. He deals with web development as well as front-end development.
From Japan. After learning developmental psychology at a graduate school, she worked as a school counselor. She joined Yaraku to learn and create new value as our member.
From South Africa. Graduated from Stellenbosch University majoring in Computer Science. After working freelance for local South African companies creating specialized software, he joined Yaraku as he was interested in languages.
From India. Master of Computer Science at North Carolina University. Aiaioo Labs CEO. After working in major software companies in the US, he started a business as an AI researcher. And he joined Yaraku as he was interested in languages. Cohan can speak 11 languages.
From Nepal. After graduating Bachelor’s from Osaka and a Master’s from Nara, he joined Yaraku. He is responsible for creating and maintaining NLP services. His love for languages and interest in machine translation technologies brought him to Yaraku.
From the United Kingdom. After working in tech support for a few years after graduating he moved to Japan. He took his knowledge and experience from studying Video Game Development to transition to a Full Stack Web Development at Yaraku.
From Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. After working in sales and human resources in the human resources industry, she worked at a social insurance attorney’s office in Tokyo. After staying in Singapore for approximately four years, she was attracted to Yaraku’s diverse culture and joined the team.
From Ibaraki Prefecture, in Japan. Experience in corporate sales in the manufacturing industry, start-ups, and web production and management companies. After being transferred to India, she now works in partner sales promotion and marketing at Yaraku.
From Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. After obtaining a master’s degree in electronics, he worked for a manufacturer of home game consoles. He engaged in the planning, development, and manufacture of game console bodies, controllers, and peripherals. After that, he became independent and supported the launch of new product development for start-up companies.
From Brazil. Studied Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande while working as a Computer Vision & Robotics researcher. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Joined Yaraku to apply the AI/Deep Learning knowledge acquired in research and to pursue a dream of living in Japan.
From Australia. Made his start in software development by developing a small teacher / student scheduling system for a music school before moving on to work as a frontend developer at one of Japan’s largest PR and marketing companies. He now works as a full-stack developer for Yaraku and enjoys collaborating with other passionate developers to deliver new and exciting features to the app.
From Thailand. After working for a startup company as a Full stack developer for a few years, she joined Yaraku as she was interested in language and translation.
From Shiga Prefecture in Japan. After graduating from the university, he self-studied marketing and worked as a freelance marketer for about 10 years. He specializes in converting organic traffic into leads and sales through SEO and content writing.
From the Philippines. After working for 2 years as a Fullstack Software Developer, she moved to Japan to work as a Linux Tester for Lenovo Japan. She joined Yaraku with a strong desire of helping to streamline the Quality Assurance Process and promote a Testing Culture in the company.
Born in Osaka. Moved to Australia for 6 years for higher education. She later worked as a tour coordinator in South America before moving to Nagano. Attracted by the charm and diversity of Yaraku, she joined the project. She would like to utilise her global experience in public relations to spread the charm of Yaraku not only to Japan but also to the rest of the world.