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Katz Ueno

Katz is the head of concrete5 Japan & a social media publisher based in Yokkaichi, Japan & Los Angeles
Katz is born in Yokkaichi, Mie Japan. Since his early age, he was surrounded by cameras and computers.

At the age of 3, he began filming super 8 before engaged watching TV, and started programming before playing TV game. And he had been actively involved with track & field racing. The sitting and running long hours became the good combination during his early age

He's graduated from California State Univerity, Long Beach majoring in Film and Electronic Arts. He has worked over dozens of film projects.

Since 1996, he has self-taught web design. Then he had an opportunity to work with a several publications. He was able to experience the exciting change of media to the next level from motion picture, press, media and music industry. He became the editor-in-chief of Entertainment Today, a 40-year-old entertainment weekly. A Japanese guy, who couldn’t speak English 10 years ago, became an editor of English publication

In 2009, he became the Japanese language project manager of concrete5 CMS.

In 2010, he launched JapanExp, and YokosoNews. With the concepts of Explore, Express and Export Japan, and using all of his experience, he started a new media to promote cool Japan.

He values “tradition”, “innovation.” and “Mono no aware.”

http://yokosonews.com/
http://japanexp.org/

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concrete5 japan (Japanese only)
http://concrete5-japan.org

Usagi Project (Japanese only)
http://usagi-project.org

My Company Site
http://deerstudio.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com/katz515

Facebook
http://facebook.com/KatzUeno

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/katz515
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katz515 Send Message katz515 has posted 506 messages (4 of which have been marked as answers), been awarded 17 badges, and has accumulated 11,645 karma points since joining concrete5.org on January 15, 2009.

Contact

12021 Wilshire Blvd Suite 398
Los Angeles, California 90025
United States
310-820-7129

Associations

Entertainment Today, Inc.
World Media Place
Energy Magazine
Medicine Magazine
National Health Forum

Education

California State University, Long Beach - BA in Film Production

Badges Won

  • Beta Crew - Access the latest version of concrete5 from Subversion and test everything early.
  • Gold Star I - Accomplished a great selfless act.
  • Silver Star I - Accomplished something cool.
  • Builder - Has built at least one concrete5 site and submitted it to the Showcase.
  • Expert I - Demonstrated deep know-how with concrete5.
  • Hub - Has organized a local concrete5 meetup.
  • Translator - Does translation work for the concrete5 interface.
  • First Post - Has Made a Post to the Forums.
  • First Reply - Took the time to not only start a new thread, but also post to someone else's.
  • Helpful Post - Someone marked the thread this person started as helpful. Good Question!
  • First Answer - Whatever this person said, the thread owner decided it was the best answer.
  • 50 Posts - Must be working on something pretty hard to talk this much.
  • 100 Posts - Has posted over a hundred times to the forums.
  • 200 Posts - Clearly getting pretty active in the forums.
  • 500 Posts - Probably knows what they're talking about.
  • Has an approved add-on in the marketplace
  • Community Leader - Has earned over 5,000 karma points by helping with concrete5.org

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