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Japanese food app Teriyaki partners with Matcha, available in 6 languages for international visitors

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Our readers may recall Teriyaki, the restaurant recommendation app launched by Japanese internet tycoon Takafumi Horie last year. The service has tied up with Matcha, a multilingual information portal for international visitors to Japan, and will start listing high-profile restaurants (selected by foodies) in Japanese [1], English, Korean, and Chinese (simplified and traditional). Matcha was launched back in February, and the company is expecting to surpass one million page views by the end of this month. Teriyaki recently received major investment from Japanese online learning platform developer Hitomedia. via ValuePress And also in grammatically simplified Japanese for non-native Japanese speakers.  ↩

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Our readers may recall Teriyaki, the restaurant recommendation app launched by Japanese internet tycoon Takafumi Horie last year. The service has tied up with Matcha, a multilingual information portal for international visitors to Japan, and will start listing high-profile restaurants (selected by foodies) in Japanese [1], English, Korean, and Chinese (simplified and traditional).

Matcha was launched back in February, and the company is expecting to surpass one million page views by the end of this month. Teriyaki recently received major investment from Japanese online learning platform developer Hitomedia.

via ValuePress


  1. And also in grammatically simplified Japanese for non-native Japanese speakers. 

Takafumi Horie’s restaurant app, Teriyaki, receives major investment

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Teriyaki is a mobile app that curates restaurants selected by foodies. It was launched last November here in Japan by former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie. As of March 4th, it had surpassed 60,000 downloads with more than 1,100 restaurants listed. Tokyo-based online learning platform developer Hitomedia announced today it has invested an undisclosed sum in the foodie app. For the company, this is its third investment in the internet industry following US-based social commerce startup Fancy (last October) and Japanese online English learning service provider Langrich (last December). Hitomedia’s CEO Masayasu Morita explained the rationale behind the investment: When one of our subsidiaries set up a Facebook page to promoting their publication on Japanese food, it acquired more than a million likes from around the world. So we believe an app like Teriyaki has a great potential to be accepted by a global audience. via Venture Now

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Teriyaki is a mobile app that curates restaurants selected by foodies. It was launched last November here in Japan by former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie. As of March 4th, it had surpassed 60,000 downloads with more than 1,100 restaurants listed.

Tokyo-based online learning platform developer Hitomedia announced today it has invested an undisclosed sum in the foodie app. For the company, this is its third investment in the internet industry following US-based social commerce startup Fancy (last October) and Japanese online English learning service provider Langrich (last December).

Hitomedia’s CEO Masayasu Morita explained the rationale behind the investment:

When one of our subsidiaries set up a Facebook page to promoting their publication on Japanese food, it acquired more than a million likes from around the world. So we believe an app like Teriyaki has a great potential to be accepted by a global audience.

via Venture Now

Former Livedoor CEO launches restaurant recommendation app

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See the original story in Japanese. The Japanese economy appears to be getting better recently. In the startup scene in particular, we’ve seen more than a few acquisitions and fundings. This improved economic situation may have precipitated an interesting new mobile app too. Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie (a.k.a. Horiemon) recently unveiled Teriyaki, an app that provides users with recommendations of the best restaurants in Japan. The app is available for free on both iOS and Android, but users have to pay a monthly subscription of 400 yen (about $4) via an in-app purchase. The app provides recommendations of restaurants and dishes based on curation by celebrity foodies called “Teriyakists”. They include high-profile restaurant guide editors, food-focused TV producers, and even Horiemon himself. At the recent launch party at a restaurant in Shibuya, Horie explained how his team plans to evolve our dining experiences: Even while I was in jail, I was thinking to develop this kind of app. There is still little information available in the app at the moment, but its volume will eventually be ten times larger than now. We’ll be launching an English and Chinese version in the upcoming few months using crowdsourced translation services, and also…

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From the left: Takafumi Horie and Makie Sonoyama (cooking specialist)

See the original story in Japanese.

The Japanese economy appears to be getting better recently. In the startup scene in particular, we’ve seen more than a few acquisitions and fundings. This improved economic situation may have precipitated an interesting new mobile app too. Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie (a.k.a. Horiemon) recently unveiled Teriyaki, an app that provides users with recommendations of the best restaurants in Japan.

The app is available for free on both iOS and Android, but users have to pay a monthly subscription of 400 yen (about $4) via an in-app purchase.

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The app provides recommendations of restaurants and dishes based on curation by celebrity foodies called “Teriyakists”. They include high-profile restaurant guide editors, food-focused TV producers, and even Horiemon himself.

At the recent launch party at a restaurant in Shibuya, Horie explained how his team plans to evolve our dining experiences:

Even while I was in jail, I was thinking to develop this kind of app. There is still little information available in the app at the moment, but its volume will eventually be ten times larger than now. We’ll be launching an English and Chinese version in the upcoming few months using crowdsourced translation services, and also a version featuring restaurants in east coast US cities. With hopes of global expansion potential, we decided to name the app ‘Teriyaki’ — something familiar to non-Japanese people too.

By the end of this month, the app will cover 700 restaurants profiles across the country. Through a partnership with Pocket Concierge, it will give you opportunities to dine at restaurants introduced on the app, where it is likely difficult to book a reservation.

By next spring, the app is expected to add e-commerce functions, with the ability to order local specialties from any part of the country online, in an effort to monetize the app.

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Teriyakists – foodies curating restaurants for the app