MetaMoJi

The 1979 marriage of two computer programmers from remote Ehime University in Southern Japan has transformed the world of business and personal computing across Asia after four decades but this legendary, visionary couple arent finished yet. Kazunori and Hatsuko Ukigawa met as classmates at Ehime University on the island of Shikoku. Both were study... ing electrical engineering and both were focused on computer programming.Both graduated in 1973 and they were married in 1975. Their shared interest in bringing the Japanese language fully into the digital revolution resulted in their first major company, which was the first to link the kanji characters prevalent across Japan and China to a Western keyboard system. Their company was the first in Asia to introduce a complete word processing system that relied on the keyboard insertion of kanji characters. Kazunori Ukigawa was also instrumental as a senior consultant to Sun Corporation in the introduction of much of the open-source code that other programmers used to create the very first user applications targeting the languages of Asia. This brilliant coding lives on today in many of the most popular stroke-based text programs that most Japanese, Chinese and Koreans use on their mobile phones. It is easy to discount the importance of the innovations first introduced by the Ukigawas. For the first time, Asians were able to fully participate in the computer and Internet revolutions while using their own language and kanji character sets, transforming and elevating business practices, productivity and process controls to emerging global standards. In 2009, Kazunori and Hatsuke formed a new company, MetaMoJi Corporation that is specifically focused on providing stroke-based business productivity and work-share connectivity not just to Asian users, but to the world. MetaMoJi is quickly introducing a new wave of global software innovation by turning digital mobile devices into smart paper with a revolutionary set of products including 7Notes, Note Anytime, and the Su-Pen ...Read More