konnichiwa-japan株式会社 役員変更のお知らせ
こんにちは。
konnichiwa-japan株式会社
取締役 岡 貞慶 です。
この度、５月１５日付で代表取締役を辞任致しました。
後任には エヴァン ブルコスキ が選任されました。
弊社は北海道の国際化をテーマとして「北海道の未来に必要なもの」を想像し形にしていくチームとしてブルコスキ、小倉と３名で２００８年４月に起業いたしました。ビジネスの経験が浅く、漠然としたテーマの中で「北海道に足りないもの？」「私たちに出来ること？」を真剣に考えました。そして私たちの答えはインターネットと多言語を使った国際的な情報発信でした。
起業してからの２年間、必死にお客様の利益につながる効果的な情報発信の方法を研究してきました。今後もますますインターネットによる情報発信、国際化が必要になってくると思います。そして、その先の必要なものをさらに想像していくことが、弊社の企業価値につながっていくことになると信じています。
私は生まれ育った大好きな北海道にとって必要となり価値のあるより強い会社を目標に今後もチャレンジしつづけます。その最初の取り組みとして海外進出をはかり広い視野で北海道を見ていこうと思います。
今後はITをベースとした多言語サービスをエヴァン ブルコスキが中心となり進めていきます。これまで以上にお客様のニーズを考えたサービスをお約束いたします。そして、さらに直接的な海外へのネットワークをつくり北海道の国際化へつなげていきたいと思います。
どうぞ今後ともよろしくお願いいたします。
岡 貞慶
Kanzy's Viva Acoustic on FM View
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of being invited as a guest on our friend Kanzy's radio show, "Kanzy's Viva Acoustic". On Saturdays from 4pm, the show focusses on Japanese 70's folk rock. FM View is a local radio station located in Muroran. They have a good mix of local information and local personalities, and it's an interesting listen if you're in the Muroran area.
Kanzy is the owner of Kanzy Acoustic Bar here in Date, a great little live music bar where we go after work sometimes for a drink and live karaoke. He's got a good repoitoire of western music there, and he has backed me up on some of my awful renditions of Beatles songs.
Please have a listen to the interview at the attached link to hear us talk about local Hokkaido musicians, as well as Canadian folk rock:
おかげさまで2周年を迎えました。
日頃より大変お世話になっております。
konnichiwa-japan株式会社は、皆様、お取引先様のお陰で２周年を迎える事が出来ました。
心よりお礼を申し上げます。
この時間も単なる通過点にしか過ぎません。
今後も、従来の概念に捕らわれず、より北海道の為になる事を信念を持ち進めてまいります。
皆様の変わらぬご支援、ご指導、ご鞭撻よろしくお願い致します。
konnichiwa-japan株式会社
代表取締役 岡 貞慶
A view of our new KJ office
Our new office, equipped with a lot of green!
We warmly thank Arata-san from "AOBA", Date's cutest flower shop, to arrange our new office with these wonderful plants.
They create a beautiful working atmosphere for us and we are very happy to have some green around the grey computers.
Thank you!!!
Ootaki Outdoor Adventures
Recently the entire konnichiwa-japan team had a wonderful outdoor experience with Sakai-san from Ootaki Outdoor Adventures. Sakai-san led us on a guided snowshoe tour through the beautiful forests of Ootaki, to the center of the Shikotsu-Toya National Park where we entered the amazing Nyoro Nyoro cave!
Nyoro Nyoro cave is a natural cave formed by springwater runoff, located a few kilometers from Ootaki next to the Tokushunbetsu river. The cave itself is quite large, and it's possible to go right inside for several meters. Springwater bubbles up from underground and runs down from the ceiling of the cave. In winter this runoff water freezes, forming beautiful stalactites and stalagmites made of ice. Some of these are over two meters! The effect is that of a beautiful, otherworldly crystal cave.
Sakai-san is a wonderful guide, and speaks fluent English. He spent several years working in the U.S.A. as a ski instructor and sports physiotherapist before moving back to Hokkaido and starting Ootaki Outdoor Adventures. His warm personality and obvious love of the outdoors really added to our enjoyment of the tour.
The tour took about 3 hours, and was not too dificult, even though most of us had never snowshoed before. Winding across open, snow-covered fields, through a pristine forest, to the edge of the Tokushunbetsu river valley and along the course of the clear Tokushunbetsu river, the tour had many wonderful views and exciting highlights. The cave itslef was the most exciting part of the tour, but a snow slide down the valley's edge on our bottoms and a hot tea and homemade cookie break outside the cave were also a lot of fun!
For more information or to book a tour please visit Ootaki Outdoor Adventures at: http://ooa.jimdo.com/ or contact them at:
TEL ０９０－６８７３－１９７０
E-MAIL fumisakai(at)hotmail.com
Sapporo Branch Office
Happy New Year!
We wish all the best to everyone in 2010! From this month we have opened a branch office in Sapporo:
〒060ー0004
Sapporo Chuo-ku, Kita 4 Nishi 6-choume
Kita 4 Building #603
(inside the offices of Hokkaido Art Co., Ltd.)
Located directly across the street from the Hokkaido government offices, we have a small space within the offices of Hokkaido Art Co., Ltd. As this office will be used primarily for meetings while in Sapporo, and there may be no konnichiwa-japan staff present, please call ahead before visiting. You can contact us at our Date office at: 0142-82-6366 or via the internet at: 050-5539-9859.
