Today marks another milestone for BitTorrent, Inc. as we launch a wholly-owned subsidiary, BitTorrent Japan, to address the needs of the Japanese market. We already have established relationships with Japanese content publishers and CE manufacturers, including Kadokawa, Buffalo Technology and Planex Communications, but by setting up shop in the heart of Tokyo, we’ll be able to better provide direct development, sales and engineering support to our growing base of local Japanese customers. As Ashwin has stated, “We are intrigued by Japan’s advanced broadband environment that exists as a result of innovation and competition among ISPs. BitTorrent has the ability to leverage the capacity that exists within the Japanese Internet to create great user experiences for online applications while dramatically reducing infrastructure costs for publishers.”

As part of launching BitTorrent Japan, Ashwin is in Tokyo this week speaking at the New Context Conference hosted by Joi Ito (head of Technorati Japan). Here’s footage from Ashwin’s speech entitled “Changing Hollywood.”

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