What sort of projects or project areas would Revolution be popular for in Japan?
YF: I think there are at least two doors to Revolution in the Japanese market. One is for business people – those who are eager to build simple utilities for their own business or own jobs – and deliver them in a very short time! These apps must be simple and easy to learn and mostly be a low price product. And the other is for the educational market though probably not what you are used to. The “Learning English” market is very popular in Japan. Private, commercial English conversation schools like NOVA are extremely popular in Japan. I would like to see Revolution also taught in such schools – learning programming or algorithms at the same time as learning English. LF: What would you like to see Runtime doing to be successful in Japan? YF: It is very important for Runtime Revolution Ltd. to know how Japanese think and act; I mean, the Japanese market is very hard to enter if a language barrier persists. I believe the reason why MS Excel or MS Word have come to be so popular is not fo
