Motoko’s weblog

Japanese Search Marketing Strategist

Since Motoko established AJPR in 1998, she has been working with companies from around the world helping them to enter Japanese market using the Internet. She also has been giving SEO/SEM seminars to promote the concept of SEO/SEM targeting Japanese market to companies and web professionals.

She is an editor at Multilingual-Search.com and Global Thoughtz Japan, where she writes Japanese online market news. She is a Chairperson of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Asia Working Group, and a Co-Chair of SEMPO Japan Committee.

Also, she’s a co-chair/co-host of the Search Engine Strategies Tokyo Forum. See here for the detail.

Some of Motoko’s recent speaking:

• SES Toronto, Canada - Jun. 2008
• Search Marketing Expo Madrid, Spain - May 2008
• SES New York, USA - Mar. 2008
• SES London, UK - Feb. 2008
• Search Engine Strategies Paris, France - Jan. 2008
• Search Engine Strategies Chicago, USA - Dec. 2007
• Internet Marketing Conference Stockholm, Sweden - Nov. 2007
• NET Marketing Forum Tokyo, Japan - Jun. 2007

[~2006]

• Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference & Expo, Iceland – Multilingual Internet Marketing
• SEM Zurich, Switzerland – SEO/SEM for Japanese Market
• Localization World, San Francisco, USA – Localizing and Optimizing Japanese Websites
• Kokusai Hiroshima, Japan – SEO for Mid-Small Businesses
• Localization World Bonn, Germany – Localizing and Optimizing Japanese Websites
• iMedio Osaka, Japan – Advanced SEO
• iMedio Osaka, Japan – Basic SEO