Foreigner-friendly software companies in Japan
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Game Companies
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#### General Resources
http://www.gamesjobsjapan.com/

#### Tokyo
* Grasshopper
* [Ubisoft Tokyo](http://www.ubisoft.co.jp/)
* The Pokemon Company
* Konami
* [Aiming, Inc.](http://aiming-inc.com/) (also in Osaka)
* [Zynga Japan](http://www.zynga.co.jp/)
* DeNA (Tokyo?)
* Gree
* [Make Leaps](http://www.makeleaps.jp/) (Shibuya)

#### Kyoto
* Nintendo
* Intelligent Systems
* Tose
* [Q-Games](http://www.q-games.com/)

#### Osaka
* [Access Games](http://www.accessgames.co.jp/)
* [Aiming, Inc.](http://aiming-inc.com/] (also in Tokyo)

#### Fukuoka
* [CyberConnect2](http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/)


General Programming
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* Yahoo! Japan
* Microsoft
* HP
* myGengo
* [Fusion Systems Japan](http://fusionsystems.co.jp/)
* Linkedin
* [http://www.sgi.co.jp/](SGI Japan)
* IBM
* [Cookpad](http://cookpad.com/)
* [Cybozu Labs](Cybozu Labs)
* Oracle
* [Lunascape](http://www.lunascape.tv/)
* Rakuten
* Trend Micro
* Cybozu
* Netyear
* Groupon Japan
* Mozilla
* [Culture Japan](http://culturejapan.jp/) ([Ruby on Rails](http://twitter.com/#!/dannychoo/status/101796706466795520))

Close but not quite (companies in other countries who have engineers working from Japan, etc)
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Automattic (based in San Francisco, but has an engineer [Naoko McCracken] working in Tokyo)


Events held in Japan
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[CSS working group](http://wiki.csswg.org/planning/japan-2011)
WordCamp