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Japan Market Entry & Marketing
For global AI, Web3, and internet companies entering Japan. We support localization, community building, influencer marketing, events, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.
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Kakehashi LLC
Building bridges between Japan and the world.
We connect global companies, creators, learners, and communities with Japan through marketing, education, content, events, and culture.
Japan
World
Marketing · Education · Culture · Community
Our Vision
Real bridges, built through real work.
Kakehashi means “bridge” in Japanese. Our mission is to build real bridges between Japan and the world — helping global companies enter Japan, helping people learn Japanese, and creating communities where culture, technology, and education meet.
What We Do
One mission, multiple bridges.
Each business serves a different audience, but they all move in the same direction: connecting international ambition with Japan’s markets, language, people, and culture.
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Japanese Language Education
We operate Japanese learning programs for students, professionals, and institutions around the world, including online lessons, university partnerships, and study-in-Japan programs.
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Media & Content
Through PuniPuniJapan, we create Japanese learning content for a global audience, with over 120,000 YouTube subscribers.
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Events & Community
We organize and support events, hackathons, meetups, founder gatherings, cultural activations, and community experiences in Japan.
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IP & Web3 Culture
We help bring global Web3 communities and cultural IP into Japan through partnerships, events, local activations, and community building. This includes our Japan-side work with Own The Doge.
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AI Communication Tools
Through SayOK, we build tools that help people improve cross-language messages before they send them, making everyday communication clearer, warmer, and easier across cultures.
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Focused brands under one company mission.
AI / Web3 Japan Market Entry Agency
Visit →Japanese Language Education & Study in Japan Programs
Visit →Japanese Learning Media with 120,000+ YouTube Subscribers
Visit →Japan-side community, events, and partnerships for the original Doge meme IP
Visit →AI communication tool for improving messages before they are sent
Visit →Why Kakehashi?
We work across both sides of the bridge.
We are not only consultants. We build, operate, teach, host, create, and connect. Our strength comes from working across both sides of the bridge.
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We understand both Japan and global markets
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We operate real brands, communities, and events ourselves
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We connect business, education, culture, and technology
About Kakehashi LLC
A Tokyo-based company connecting international people and ideas with Japan.
Kakehashi LLC is a Tokyo-based company founded by Yudai, a bilingual Japanese entrepreneur working across AI, Web3, education, media, and Japan market entry. Through multiple focused brands, Kakehashi connects international companies, learners, creators, and communities with Japan.
Based in Tokyo, Japan
AI / Web3 Marketing
Japanese Education
Media & Content
Events & Community
AI Communication Tools
Japan Market Entry
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Have a bridge that needs building?
Whether you are entering Japan, learning Japanese, building a community, hosting an event, or looking for local partners, we would love to hear from you.