It is an interesting move by Rakuten's part to drop buy.com name and move it to rakuten.com. Rakuten is a Japanese company famous for asking employees in Japan to speak only English. http://www.rakuten.com

This is the office building I rent first few months after I started PSPINC in Mercer Island, Washington. I rented a small office on the 2nd floor. I paid 1 year rent in advance so that I will not run out of money. When we left this building, we occupied about the 1/2 of the entire second floor.

PSPINC was listed at #3638 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in the US for 2012. There were 127 companies in Washington state that made the list, and of those we were also #85 for the Seattle Metro Area. http://www.inc.com/profile/pacific-software-publishing

Every Wednesday, I attend Seattle Executives Association with 100 other business owners. It is a very different organization design to benefit companies. If you own a business in the greater Seattle area and would like check out this association, please let me know. Just remember there is one company per business category...

We have visited a video production company who is also a member of Seattle Executives Association.

It is common in Japan to distribute pocket tissue paper packet to people near train station with advertisement. I think it is a great idea.

Bruce Johnson of Rowland Studio provided the image for the cover of 2013 Seattle Executives Association booklet. Bruce Wiggins of U.S. Printing did the production of booklets. Thank you.

KanjiWORD is one of the very first software package that PSPINC published in the US. This software enabled non Japanese version of Windows 3.1 to process Japanese text. That was back in 1993~1994 ... two years before PSPINC start its Internet hosting business. The last technical support for KanjiWORD was just last year. ...

Many small business owners have opened the Facebook accounts and use them to promote their business. I have done the same but I learned that is not how it should work. You create PAGE which looks and act like an Facebook Account to promote your business. In my case, I own https://www.facebook.com/uchikura accou...

I just received the email (newsletter) saying the Zip Car is now a part of Avis/Budget Rent-a-Car group. It makes it bigger but less trendy, I just became a ip Car member last year.