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Bio

Katz currently works as the Chief Communications Officer at concrete5 Japan, Inc. to spread the word of concrete5 CMS, a free open source web publishing application.

As Japan’s best English social media aggregator, Katz funded JapanExp and YokosoNews to provide travel, culture and lifestyle information of Japan.

Katz was born and raised in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream to become a filmmaker. After graduating from California State University, Long Beach, he has worked on dozens of independent film projects as well as national TV programs as a producer; in post-production, and sound designer.

Then, he started working for several publishing companies. He was self-taught as a web designer. In 2006, he started working for Entertainment Today, an entertainment weekly since 1967, then he became the editor-in-chief in 2007.

In 2009, he joined an open source software project, concrete5, to start translating and marketing in Japanese.

In 2010, after years of preparation, he launched a social media web project, JapanExp, to explore, express and export Japan. As one of its projects, he launched YokosoNews to introduce travel, lifestyle and cultural information of Japan to, and welcome people to visit from overseas.

In 2011, during the aftermath of March 11 East Japan Earthquake, he immediately started the emergency live stream via Ustream which caught the attention of one million viewers within a month. Those viewers include: ABC; Washington Post; Al Jazeera; German Public Radio; Russia Today and other media outlets.

He’s always wanted to help many people and has been looking for new ventures as the fast paced web and media world evolves.

Interests

Publishing
Social Media
Live cast
Global Marketing

WordPress Origin Story

My first WordPress was building a blog for my client. Then I built my own blog with WordPress. Now I’m good at anything to involved web movies and multilingual.

Since I started using my blog as WordPress, I wanted to learn more.

Then, I’ve been involved with WordPress meet-ups in Japan since 2010. I was staff for WordCamp Nagoya 2010, then sometime organizer for the local meet-ups.

I’ve developed and released two plug-ins and spoke a couple times at a few WordPress event including WordCamps.

Although my business focus is on other CMS, I love WordPress community and its power.

Most of all, I’ve met my wife through WordPress meet-up in 2011. WordPress is part of my family now.

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WordCamp Speaker '15
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Translation Contributor '16 Translation Editor '16

Current Job

Chief Communications Officer
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concrete5 Japan, Inc

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Contributions

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February 2022
Feb 27 Sun · 09:49
Forums med
Posted a reply to 重大なエラーによる接続不能, on the site サポートフォーラム:
こんにちは。 全く同じテーマ …
December 2017
Dec 20 Wed · 06:14
Forums med
Posted a reply to fatal error after api setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep, I've got the same error with OAuth1.0a. OAuth2.0 worked fine. – Me, Mac OS…
Dec 20 Wed · 05:21
Forums med
Created a topic, Doesn’t work with https, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, It seems that https doesn't work. I've tried http …
September 2015
Sep 26 Sat · 04:34
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Tokyo 2015
July 2015
Jul 02 Thu · 14:46
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Kansai 2015 2015

Developer

2 plugins

Translations

1 locale
ja 日本語 (Japanese) Plugins Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Translation editor for 2 projects.

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

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