Current situation of Steemit in Japan.

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

Hello people of Steemit, how are you?
I’m @yoshiko from Japan.

In Japan, Steemit has only started with a limited number of users, and the platform is still at a very early stage. There are, however, no Whales in Japan at the moment.

There are few VOTEs in Japanese communities without whales. So many people have quit.Steamit's pleasure is not just reward.Encountering a person is a very precious experience. We held a lot of steemit meetups.Even with such efforts, many people quit.

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A new ALIS social media network was founded in Japan. ALIS has received a lot of attention.
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“We perceive Japan as the first market that we should tap into, as it is a huge, but an underdeveloped market that is ‘left-behind’. First of all, western countries take the lead on block-chain technologies, which means Japan is lacking main players. Additionally, due to the newly changed legislation in Japan, foreign players are unable to develop domestic businesses, and even domestic players need to overcome the hurdle of entrepreneur registration.
Secondly, there is the language barrier. On one hand, because of the language barrier, the market is often left behind from various global platforms (Examples of these are WhatsApp, Tumblr, and Pinterest, which is often not even recognized in Japan). On the other hand, however, as seen in the fact that Microsoft has already released an instant facts mean that there is a high possibility that once we tap into the market as soon as possible as a first-mover, we will be able to stabilize our position because of the large hurdle.
In addition to this Japan continues to be a huge economical market, with the nominal GDP still ranked 3rd among the world at over 4 trillion USD, along with the top ranked amount of net foreign trade. The SNS and web media market is Japan is also valued at least 11 billion USD.
The above reasons are why the market in Japan is a huge market, but underdeveloped and ‘left-behind’. We, however, perceive these as a reason to enter the Japanese market. Although already stated above, we think that it is a completely rational strategy that will enable our success to enter and expand our share within the huge but ‘left-behind’ Japanese market and to later extend into the global market.
Finally, as the core members have been brought up in Japan and hence are familiar with its culture and business rules, starting our venture in Japan is most likely our best strategy at this point.
(Reference: https://alisproject.github.io/whitepaper/whitepaper_v1.01_ja.pdf)”

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Currently there are about 200 active users in steemit Japan but 4000 users registered with ALIS.
ALIS is all Japanese. Japanese tend to hate English.I strongly hope Steemit's Japaneseization.And I would like Japan to make several whales. There are many people who quit when they have fewer rewards.
Japan has such a problem, but I am enjoying Steemit. That is because some people support Japan. That support is from people who care about Japan.
While being supported by those people, I will do my best with #japanese from now on.

Please visit #Japanese. And please give japanese a VOTE!!

I would like to make Japanese steemit an attractive platform.

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Hi @yoshiko, communities are a long awaited enhancment to Steemit and I expect this will make for a much better experience among groups. Especially groups that don't have any whales.

I am working on an Android app which is nearly ready that should make posting restaurant reviews more enjoyable on Steemit. I know the people I met in Japan love posting these 😀

I hope you guys stick with Steemit a little longer, there is lots of promise here. We are still getting started.

Having said all that I would love to hear more about ALIS

Thank you @eroche! I love # japanese very much. I am grateful to Steemit who made a wonderful community. However, I feel that consideration to Japan is too late. Please pray for being improved soon. I was rewarded for your kind comments:D

I hope to see more japanese users joining steemit in the near future!

I believe that Japan's prosperity is close!

やはり言葉の壁にぶつかりますね。Grammarlyと言うアプリがいいと聞きました。

英語圏からのサポートを受けるには私達それぞれが英語圏にサポートの手を伸ばさないといけないような気がします。
一方通行は成り立たないと思うんです。
上手く言えないのですが、そこに交流がなくて、一方通行でも大きな報酬を与えることが出来るのは英語圏であってもクジラさんだけ。めったにあることでもありません。日本大好きなクジラさんが現れるのが一番楽なんですけどね~
小さなupvoteを沢山集めるには交流交流交流!(笑) それはもう皆さんjapaneseコミュニティー内でされている事で、それを少しでも外へ向けられたら良いのかなと感じました。

私もdjynnさんに同感です。Jpnsコミュニティは居心地がいいんでつい居てしまいがちですけど、書き手一人ひとりが少しずつでもこちらから出て行く姿勢を見せることもしないと、求めるだけじゃだめですよね…。その辺りで記事を書いて少しでも貢献できればいいなと思ったりしてるところです。

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

それができる人は、どんどんやってもらいたいと思っています。私もミートアップなどで皆なさんに海外に出るように言うんだけど、なかなか難しいのが現状なんだよね〜
そう考えると、韓国語だけでなりったている韓国のようなコミュニティを早く築きたいと焦ってますよ〜w
海外で日本のポストに関心を持ってもらうことがどれほど大変で難しいことなのかを考えると @djynnさんのOCDの活動も本当にありがたいですよね〜

結局のところ、信頼関係を結ぶことが一番大切で、そのような方が現在日本をサポートしてくれているので、海外とのパイプ役になってもらえる人がどんどん増えることを願います。

交流は大事ですよね〜ただ英語のコミュニケーションはハードルが高い人も多いのでそう言った人たちを応援できる仕組みを考えていきたいと思っています。

Qurator here!

I hear the concern here and we are keen to help out and support the Japanese community. We do however not have Japanese moderators. If we can get some Japanese moderators to help out then we can start a support channel towards the Japanese community.

I know we are not giving massive upvotes but we do feature posts and send out daily upvotes.

Come chat with me on our Discord channel. @scrooger.

If we do get the Japanese side up then I will need at least 3 moderators to approve quality content.

Thank you for making suggestions to me!I will contact you!

I will try to take a look at #japan from time to time and make some curation efforts. Well, I'm not a whale, but maybe it could help a bit.
Not to mention that I'm going to visit this amazing country very soon :-)

Thank you so much!!
I can't wait to meet you :D

Im hoping Steemit becomes more popular in Japan. No need for Alis

Look to the Koreans how successful they are using Steemit. The language barrier is not an excuse, look at you and some other Japanese authors, you are doing very well

Keep writing in English and Japanese, I’m sure you will keep enjoying it here

There are many things to learn from Korea Steemit. Korean friends are supporting us.

I think your advice is very important. Thank you @maxinpower!!

英語圏へのアプローチありがとうございます👏

VOTEが少なくて、やる気を失ってしまったり、ギスギスしてしまうのはとても残念に思って呼びかけてみました。皆さんがたくさんVOTEをもらえるように祈りを込めて書いてますw

@yoshikoさん
ありがとう🤣
8日会えるの楽しみにしてます❗️

日本のsteemitの盛り上げ、なんとかしたいですね〜英語での投稿ありがとうございます。

日本語が無いから、#japaneseタグを付けれなくて残念ですww
とりあえず、自分でできることをたくさんやって、頑張るしか無いですよね〜^^
日本を盛り上げたいと思ってくれる人がいることはありがたいです!

Cheer up Japanese community!!
I'll always support #japanese community like always! :D

Thank you @ramengirl!! Your words are reliable.
Because you have been supporting Japan for a long time!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I will support @yoshiko 's energetic activities. The Japanese community is growing. It is worth investing. Please lend us the power to come.

Thank you @ace69! The Japanese community will grow greatly.Let's continue Steemit together until then:D

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Awesome post @yoshiko san! Thank you for sharing this post with us!

Thank you @koto-art! I hope that more attention will be given to Japan.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@yoshiko san, this is a lovely guy!
Thank you for spreading.
I also want to join my group.

Thank you @eggpon :D
I hope more Japanese can enjoy steemit!

英語圏の方に継続して来てもらうにはどうしたら良いんでしょうね?
って事を考えていますが、ノーアイデアなんです。
英語で彼らが興味のある事を、投稿し続ければ良いのは分かってはいるんですけどね。簡単にできるならやっているよ、じゃあどうする?と、思考停止状態です。

英語圏でも継続してきてくれるありがたい方がいて、その方達は日本の繁栄がSteemitにとってとても大切だと理解してサポートしてくれています。それ以外の英語圏の方は気まぐれで日本に遊びに来てくれるので、日本が頑張っていることを随時アピールするミートアップなどが大切になってくると思っています。アピールが大切な世界なのですが、謙虚な国民性の日本はなかなか難しいですねww

勝手な自分の思いだけを書いてしまい、すいません。
まずは、今回のように、高い視点で活動やサポートをされている @yoshikoさんにお礼を伝えたいです(と、言う機会を前から伺っておりました)。
やはりアピールが大切ですよね。アピールをしつつ、japanese community に遊びに来てくれた方が、共感できるような投稿も増やしていければ良いと思っています(って何だろう?)。
グローバルには、LOVE Japanは多いですし、なにより東京オリンピック・パラリンピックも迫っているので、その波に乗ってアピールしたいですね。

そうなんですよ!日本を好意的に思ってくれている方はたくさんいます^^

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

あれっ、多くの方が英語で書いてらっしゃる

Please visit #Japanese.And please give japanese a VOTE!!

Thank you for your support!
I hope Japanese communities are getting bigger.
and I am sure It will be!

I am just one of a newbie but I will keep making contents in Japanese.
Cheers.

頑張って日本人は英語で英語圏にアピールしています!ww

I am pleased that you are in the Japanese community. A wonderful friend:D

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

お…見習ってこれから英語の書き込みも追加します。私も#japanese タグを使わせていただいてますからね。
Thank you. I’m happy to hear that :D
You are a wonderful friend too, Yoshiko :):):)
Have a nice steemit!

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Great job there @yoshiko!
I think the purpose of this post is to call for support from non-japanese steemians?
Like you said, japanese don't like English, so it is kinda hard for japanese posts to reach English readers.
Perhaps can try to do some activities, contests, or games within the japanese community and open up for other steemians to join too.
For example, the amidakuji game by @boxcarblue is attracting participants from all over the world. I think that is a great idea to connect different communities together!
I am actually running a weekly contest with the help of @qurator, that is currently opened to singapore and malaysia community. If japanese community is interested, and has enough qurator members, I could open up for you too. :)

@jrvacation Thank you! @boxcarblue The game is very fun and I like it too! I knew you were holding a contest. However, I did not understand what it was. I admire your charity act very much.
Can I hold a contest with 300 power as well as you? I wanted to hear more about your wonderful idea.
I am grateful to you who are always friendly to Japan!!!

@qurator is a membership service, where you upvote and delegate for daily upvotes. I think @yasu24 and @djynn are members. You can check with them.
Will be glad if you would like to join me to sponsor this contest as well :)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@qurator is great but lots of us having problem with English :(
Although, @yoshiko, if anyone wants to try @qurator (it is a community) and @make-a-whale (also a community I'm in) I am happy to help.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@yoshiko さん、下にも書きましたが...あ、上だ(笑) 私と @yasu24 さんは@qurator@make-a-whale (今、メンバーは募集してないかも)と言うコミュニティーupvoteサービスを使っています。メンバーになる時にチェックが入るのでやはり英語で記事を書いていないとかもなのですが、upvoteまたはdelegationで24時間に一度upvoteをいただけます。@minnowsupportもありますね。

思ったのですがjapaneseコミュニティーでもこういったサービスを作れないですかね~

日本でも作れればいいですよね〜!それを成功させるにはまずコミュニティの発展が大事だと思うので、もう少し頑張らないとですね^^

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Well... I'm japanese steemian and I'm trying to write articles in bilingual(Jpn&Eng). It takes so long time to make it but not sure how many people find my post and read my post.
But keep doing this since I participated in steemit last month, I'm getting tired of this... I think this is not only me, many Japanese trying to make post Jpn n English, but not so many foreign people support Japanese post.

Of course we, Japanese people need brush up our article to attractive one, I think everyone knows that. But first of all, the number of people who come to steemit is small amount because of non Japaneseization. It takes long process to just start steemit, especially who doesn't have any friend who is doing steemit.

Sure, of course I also feel Japanese community need to start contest or some event or... but there's not so many players here. That's because there's high barrier to just " start steemit" because of "language" issue.

As @yoshiko mentioned, I also really wish "Japaneseization" of steemit then more people comes in and if Japanese steemian start getting money, it becomes more active community. If not... another platform like ALIS will spread from Japan to.... may be all over the world.

I've already know many steemians already support Japanese community, we appreciate that, but I wish more steemians give us a little more attention and support for our community. thank you.

私は1ヶ月前から始めたsteemianで、毎日英語と日本語の記事を書く努力をしています。これを書くのに多くの時間と労力を費やしています。でも、正直に言うとやっぱり負担になっています。これは私だけではなく、多くの日本人が二ヶ国語の記事を書くことが負担になっていると思いますが、その努力にも関わらず海外のsteemianとの交流やサポートを受けることは多くありません。

もちろん、日本のsteemianも記事をブラッシュアップする必要はあると思います。そして多くの人が気づいています。でもまず、絶対的にsteemitを始める人数が少なく、その理由は日本語化されていないことです。ただここに来る、steemitを始めることが長いプロセスなのです。特にsteemitをしている友人がいないとなおさらです。

そしてもちろん、日本のコンテストやイベントをすることも必要なのかも知れません。でも、絶対的に人数が少ないのです。プレーヤーがいません。それはただsteemitを始めるための言葉の問題があるからです。

@yoshikoさんが言われるとおり私も日本人steemianを増やすために日本語化が必要だと考えます。日本のコミュニティ、プレーヤーが増えて収入が増えれば、もっと活発なコミュニティになると思います。もしそうでなければ、アリスのような他のプラットフォームが日本から広がり…もしかしたら世界へ広がってしまうかも知れません。

私はすでに多くのsteemiansが日本のコミュニティをサポートしてくれていることを知っています。それに感謝しています。でももっと多くのsteemianが私たちのコミュニティにもう少し注目して支援して下さると嬉しいです。ありがとうございました。

Thank you !!! It is together with what I am thinking. I do not speak English. So, I spend a lot of time to make such a post. That is a serious problem not only by me but by many Japanese people.

Even if Japanese writes a wonderful article in Japanese, it has serious problems that will not be voted. When I see it I feel very sad.Steemit is supposed to be VOTE on a good article ...
May our wishes reach Steemit!!!

"Japaneseization" is such a weird sounding word. LOL
Really hope the current japanese community can stay at steemit and continue to grow bigger. I will be very sad if japanese steemians decide to move to other platform like ALIS...
I think having cross-community games/contest is helpful to bring out exposure. As I started to create the singapore community (there's only about 20 members currently), I been eagerly trying to create interaction and tie up some activities with the Malaysia community (they have close to 1000 members). I know the new singapore community will have a hard time as we have no whales or dolphins (this is similar situation with #japanese).
Then again, fully agree that language is still a huge barrier. But with volunteers like yourself who can help to do some translations, I think it will make things easier :)

oh! hahaha thank you for let us know...
yeah... I think even English speaking people also difficult to get attractive on steemit... so how we non-English speakers can get good position from now?
Anyway thank you for your comment and please keep touching with Jpns community... Arigato!

いつもjapaneseタグからお邪魔していたので見落としてました~(>_<)いつもありがとうございます。

そうですね、Steemitの楽しみは報酬だけではないとはいえ、多くの人にとって報酬はモチベーションのひとつだと思います。それがなければ、他にも選択肢がある今、Steemitで書く意味はないとやめてしまう人がいても仕方がないなと… 悲観的になることもある今日この頃でした。

私は今の#japaneseの皆さんが潤って底が厚くなることを願っています。その思いが私の力になっているとも思っているのですが、皆さんのモチベーションが下がってくるのを見るのは辛いですよね。でも、希望も持っていて今年一年で大きく成長するとも思っています。今やるべきこともたくさんあると思うので、希望と期待を持って頑張りましょう!!(今やるべきことを記事にしようかな?w)

Nice, thoughtful post Yoshiko! I completely understand what you are saying. Japan is often quite late to start using new technologies, but when adoption does finally happen, it does so very rapidly. For Steemit to catch on here there needs to be a 'tipping point', as you mentioned Whales, or perhaps celebrity endorsement etc for people to become motivated to post and interact regularly on Steemit! Steem on!

Thank you delian! I am glad you thought the same as me.In Cryptocurrency Japan is in an important position. Steemit needs to focus more attention on Japan.

looks fun!

Thank you.

英語の記事すごいですね!
私も週1回くらい、英語でアピールしてみようかな、と今ふと考えました^^ (私の場合、英語で書くのはめちゃくちゃ書くの時間かかりそうですが...)

ありがとう!全然英語ができないから私も大変ですww
でも、英語でのアピールはSteemitでは大切ですよね。コミュケーションをとるのは楽しいですし^^ @sho-tさんなら英語をすぐにマスターできそうな気もします!

英語読むのには少しずつ慣れてきました。
ただ、典型的な日本人で、リスニングやスピーキングが全然ですね(>_<)
少しずつ頑張れたらと思います!

Yoshiko always acts!
I would like many steemian to read this article.
I resteem this article.

Thank you skyleap!
The appeal was very important than I thought.
There were several good offers. What is important is not to give up:D

you have to invite @skyleap he is rocking steemit right now!

Yes, thank you.

Re-steemed and raising the UI issue up the flagpole.

I really appreciate you.You give me courage.

yes, I love to read sbout Steemit Japan meetups.:)
Keep it going!:)

Thank you! I know you:D

What a wonderful meetup in Japan. Keep the good work up. We need people to spread the positive and unambiguous side of Steemit community.

Thank you! I will try my best to be a wonderful community!

I don't have much Steem power or influence, but I always help Japanese steem users as much as I can. I would love to see Steemit more successful here.

The growth of the Japanese community will be interesting. Because I have people like you, I feel that it can develop rapidly.

The ALIS Closed Beta Release is April 23rd! If you want to blog there you can apply here.

I also registered. I also talked to Yasu, CEO of ALIS. I said that Steemit's article can be posted so I will post lots of Steemit:)

Nice!

Awww I love the Japanese community! I hope you all get the support you need! ❤️

I am glad that you like Japan! Thank you @karensuestudios!

An upvote to assist in your efforts to build the Japanese community!

I am very glad your feelings! I'll do my best.

ALIS does look interesting, I'll try to register for the beta.

It would be nice for more Japanese activity on Steemit but I think there needs to be a solid Japanese language UI, nearly all of the Japanese Steemit users I've met can speak English well, someone that can't will have a difficult time using the platform. I suppose I'll experience that if I get in on the ALIS beta!

I also wish for the success of ALIS in Japan. A lot of Steemit members also registered to ALIS. ALIS members will also register with Steemit.It is necessary to make Steemit a fun platform to continue. People will stay at Steemit if that can be done.

The Steemit UI can be done, there are Korean, Chinese, Russian and other languages already available. I've registered at ALIS, so hopefully I'll be able to see what it is like at the end of the month!

今頃気づいてすみません。どこかに書いたんですが、日本では既にコンテンツを投稿してお金をもらうプラットフォームとしてnoteの方が先行しております。いくつか投稿を読んでみると、やっぱりnoteの方がしっかり書いている方が多いんですね。だからSteemitの特徴を生かして、良い投稿にはたくさんの、それなりの投稿にはそれなりの、「upvote」をしあうことが励みになると思います。

こちらこそ、コメントありがとうございます。よい投稿にたくさんのupvoteがつくことは、その投稿を書いた人だけでなく、見た人のモチベーションにもなりますよね。noteは知りませんでした。勉強のために調べて見てみようと思います。@yadamaniartさんはさまざまなことを知っていて、教えられることが多いです。ありがとうございます!

A loads of love from India. Let steemit community bloom in Japan. In India there are users coming to the platform, but still we are yet to produce quality content. Right now, it's more noise. I am following you. I am also interested in knowing about Japan in English 😃

I thought Steemit in India was developing. However, it is regrettable that there are many posts that become noise.India and Japan need good posting and expansion of the community.Let's do our best together!I sincerely pray for the expansion of India:D

Thanks for the reply. The community in India is slowly "growing". But most don't understand:

  • why copy-pasting content is plagiarism (or stealing). They simply can't digest it.
  • why spamming is noise.
  • value of steem is tied to the quality contents here.
  • many more.

They are doing mostly what they were doing in facebook. The only difference here is they cannot get aggresive, because everything here is tied to money.

Just have read about this confrontation elsewhere (your fellow Japanese steemian wrote about this) and hope this can be sorted soon.

Best of luck to the Japanese community.

The Japanese community is very good.The Japanese can spend well in the group.I think that there is also national character.My goal is to maintain a good community as it is:D

I have proposed a cross-cultural collaboration between Hong Kong, Singaporean, and Japanese communities to my Hong Kong community leaders. The idea is to host a one-off challenge where users from one community write about everything about the culture of another community. Like a Japanese user writes about HK food or a HK user writes about a trip to Tokyo.

I have proposed there will be upvotes for each contest entry and SBD prizes for winners. If this would be possible, it may increase user participation and bring communities in Asia closer.

Congratulations @yoshiko ! I'm from China, Beijing, working for a high-tech company now, also a Japanese learner.
I believe that the Steemit community will have a sustainable deveploment in Japan.
Both suggestions and materials you send to me would be appreciated(may through email: [email protected]) on how to make a dapp and japanese study.
Looking forward to seeing you more articles.

Good post. Let's not forget that Japan is one of the first countries in the world that legalized Bitcoin. There are a lot of Japanese people working and studying overseas. They will come to join sooner or later, and of course Steem has to proof that it is attractive and competitive.