{ "$comment": "Fact ledger for TechJapan LLC, generated from scripts/facts-source.js. Atomic current facts only; prose, pages and FAQ live on the website (each English page also has index.md). Prices exclude Japanese consumption tax unless tax_included is true.", "schema_version": "1.1", "updated_at": "2026-10-14", "verified_at": "2026-10-14", "canonical_site": "https://www.tech-japan.jp", "llms_txt": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/llms.txt", "sitemap": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/sitemap.xml", "organization": { "entity_id": "techjapan-llc", "entity_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/#organization", "legal_name": "TechJapan LLC", "legal_name_ja": "TechJapan合同会社", "alternate_names": [ "TechJapan", "Tech Japan", "テックジャパン合同会社", "techjapan" ], "corporate_number": "1011003018911", "founded_at": "2024-04-05", "registry_url": "https://info.gbiz.go.jp/hojin/ichiran?hojinBango=1011003018911", "official_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp", "contact_page": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/contact/", "address": { "street": "1-45 Taishin-cho", "locality": "Hadano", "region": "Kanagawa", "postal_code": "257-0034", "country": "JP" }, "business_areas": [ "ontology engineering", "knowledge retrieval", "AI integration", "kintone development", "small-scope software development", "offshore development management" ], "service_area": "Japan, remote. Southeast Asia through partner companies", "working_languages": [ "Japanese", "English", "Thai" ], "licenses": [ "Kanagawa Governor License (1) No. 32931" ], "representative": { "name": "Go Kyono", "name_ja": "興野 剛", "role": "Managing Member", "credentials": [ "Digital Promotion Officer appointed by the Digital Agency of Japan", "Member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence", "Legal Data Utilization Award, Digital Agency Law x Digital Hackathon 2025" ], "background": [ "IT consulting for publicly listed Japanese companies", "Director and CTO of a company capitalized at over 500 million yen", "CEO of a Thai corporation", "Fifteen years and more than 100 companies of digital transformation work, concentrated in Southeast Asian manufacturing", "Over 1,500 on-site interviews with operators and back-office staff" ], "same_as": [ "https://x.com/kyonogo" ] } }, "products": [ { "product_id": "hadano-ai-cabinet", "name": "Hadano AI Cabinet", "status": "development", "status_note": "v2, in development", "category": "Evidence-first knowledge base for AI agents, served over the Model Context Protocol", "summary": "An evidence-first knowledge base for AI agents: every answer points back to the exact passage that supports it, returned verbatim from the stored original.", "facts": { "Stage": "v2, in development. Nothing is installable or obtainable today: no package, no public repository, no waitlist, no pricing", "Rule": "Every answer must point back to the exact passage that supports it. Search evidence comes back as verbatim slices of the stored original, with positions, and the retrieval rules are checked by machine against stored counterexamples before the engine ships", "Retrieval": "Keyword search over a character-trigram index ranked by BM25, then a one-hop walk over the relation graph seeded by at most three matched chunks. Vector expansion is designed and not connected", "Local form": "An AI agent talks to the MCP server over standard input and output. The knowledge is one file on that machine; the MCP process opens no network socket and needs no API key and no GPU", "Shared form": "Optional and run by the user: one resident process owns the database and serves several clients over HTTP, with keys stored only as hashes, default-deny permissions by verb and scope, and an audit line for every request. No hosted service is offered", "Tabular import": "CSV, TSV and XLSX rows are imported one row per document under a key column; re-importing the same key replaces the document", "Platforms": "Built and tested on Windows x64 and Linux x64, with the same gate green on hosted runners for both. macOS and ARM are untested", "Requirements": "Python 3.11 or newer", "Record": "The specification, the measurements, and the limitations, security and reliability statements are maintained only at h-c.ai; facts.json and llms.txt there are the machine-readable copy. Where this site and h-c.ai disagree, h-c.ai is right" }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/products/hadano-ai-cabinet/", "product_site": "https://www.h-c.ai/" }, { "product_id": "pasha-kintai", "name": "Pasha Kintai", "name_ja": "パシャ勤怠", "status": "available", "status_note": "in production since February 2026", "category": "Attendance management SaaS for small Japanese manufacturers", "summary": "Photograph a paper timesheet with a phone. AI-OCR reads the handwriting and generates the attendance record.", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 100, "unit": "per person per month", "model": "usage_based", "tax_included": false, "note": "JPY 100 per person per month, tax excluded. One plan" }, "facts": { "Price": "JPY 100 per person per month, tax excluded. One plan", "Setup fee": "None", "Billing": "Usage based. Only users with at least one clock-in or OCR import that month are charged", "Example": "Ten active users is JPY 1,000 per month, tax excluded", "Free trial": "One month or longer, every feature, no cap on users or uploads, no credit card", "Minimum term": "None. A month with no usage costs nothing; the account can be paused or cancelled at any time", "Capabilities": "AI-OCR for handwritten timecards, a correction workflow with named approvers, labor-law-compliant aggregation, PDF, Excel and CSV export, and notification when the statutes change", "Who it is for": "Japanese manufacturers with roughly 10 to 50 employees" }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/products/pasha-kintai/", "product_site": "https://pasha-kintai.com", "press": [ { "title": "Nikkei Construction, June 2026 issue, page 99", "url": "https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/mag/ncr/18/00008/061000565/" }, { "title": "VOIX biz, 2026-07-27", "url": "https://voix.jp/biz/news/175506/" }, { "title": "Gekkan Soumu Online, 2026-02-20", "url": "https://www.g-soumu.com/articles/795beea7-85f6-44cb-bd54-87e767200c02" }, { "title": "O!Product AI, 2026-02-20", "url": "https://oproduct.ai/articles/2307351" } ] }, { "product_id": "miihawk", "name": "MiiHawk", "status": "available", "status_note": "in production", "category": "Shuttle bus dispatch optimization for factories in Southeast Asia", "summary": "Collects boarding data by NFC or QR scan on ordinary phones, then builds a minimum-cost dispatch plan with a mathematical optimization engine.", "pricing": { "currency": "THB", "price_from": 150, "unit": "per employee per month", "model": "subscription", "tax_included": false, "note": "THB 150 per employee per month — one plan, every feature. The three-edition pricing was retired in the April 2026 one-price revision" }, "facts": { "Reported effect": "Up to 40 percent reduction in employee shuttle bus cost, per a customer case published on miihawk.com", "What is optimized": "Vehicle combination and fleet size. This is not GPS route guidance", "Hardware": "None. NFC and QR scanning on ordinary smartphones", "Offline": "Runs offline as a PWA and syncs when the connection returns", "Countries": "Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia", "Interface languages": "Japanese, English, Thai", "Price": "THB 150 per employee per month — one plan, every feature. The three-edition pricing was retired in the April 2026 one-price revision", "Free trial": "Fourteen days, every feature, all routes, no cap on registered employees" }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/products/miihawk/", "product_site": "https://miihawk.com/" }, { "product_id": "relay", "name": "relay", "status": "available", "status_note": "in production since September 2026", "category": "Notification service between AI coding agents (Hadano AI Cabinet series)", "summary": "Tells each AI coding agent what the other agents in the project are about to do and have done — facts, never commands — so parallel sessions stop overwriting each other.", "pricing": { "currency": "USD", "price_from": 0, "unit": "per user per month", "model": "subscription", "tax_included": false, "note": "Free for one person on any number of devices. Business: USD 3 per user per month, tax excluded, charged for everyone once a second person joins; devices are never counted. Enterprise: USD 1,000 per month for 300 to 500 users, with SSO and an audit log" }, "facts": { "Price": "Free for one person on any number of devices. Business: USD 3 per user per month, tax excluded, charged for everyone once a second person joins; devices are never counted. Enterprise: USD 1,000 per month for 300 to 500 users, with SSO and an audit log", "What it sends": "Seven event kinds: will (about to do), did (done), cancel, ask, and three replies (ok, ng, other). Facts about what an agent is doing; never an instruction to another agent", "Delivery": "Median 18.5 ms end to end, localhost measurement, September 2026. Pushed to the other agents in the same project", "Record": "Append-only, hash-chained event log that can be re-verified from the first entry. Recipients are addressed by relay-issued IDs, never by email", "What it does not do": "No automatic merge or rebase, no enforced file locks, no automatic conflict resolution, no storage of code, no task management", "Clients": "Claude Code is the primary target; Codex CLI works; the Claude mobile app and claude.ai connect over remote MCP; ChatGPT can connect but does not yet receive notifications on its own; Gemini is not supported", "Setup": "One package, sign in with Google or GitHub, one MCP entry, one hook. About five minutes", "License": "Proprietary. Not open source", "Specification": "The specification, guide, pricing and measurements are maintained at relay.h-c.ai (with its own llms.txt); where this site and that record disagree, the record is right" }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/products/relay/", "product_site": "https://relay.h-c.ai/" } ], "services": [ { "service_id": "ontology", "name": "Ontology and knowledge graph construction", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": null, "model": "scoped_quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "Quoted in writing per agreed scope, tax excluded. First consultation free" }, "for": "Teams whose LLM or RAG deployment is not answering accurately enough", "scope": [ "Knowledge asset inventory", "Ontology design: classes, relations, constraints, controlled terminology", "Knowledge graph construction on Neo4j or an equivalent store", "Evidence-first retrieval: find the passage first, then expand along defined relations, so every answer keeps its trace. Vector search is added where it earns its place, never as the only path", "Quantitative retrieval accuracy evaluation against a fixed gold set", "Handover of the operating and maintenance process" ], "use_cases": [ "Internal knowledge search and internal RAG", "Structuring laws, internal regulations and contracts", "Integrating product, parts and technical information", "Rebuilding an existing RAG deployment that is not accurate enough" ], "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/ontology/", "page_language": "en" }, { "service_id": "ai-integration", "name": "AI integration, hands on", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": null, "model": "scoped_quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "Quoted in writing per agreed scope before work starts, tax excluded. No setup fee. First consultation free" }, "phases": [ { "name": "Strategy", "detail": "Inventory of operations and data assets, opportunity identification, agent design, use case selection, ROI estimate, roadmap. Subsidy application support" }, { "name": "Integration", "detail": "Agent construction, generative AI integration, data pipelines, production deployment, API integration, interface work, security and compliance" }, { "name": "Operation", "detail": "Monitoring, model improvement, team training, cost optimization, and handover so the client can run it without us" } ], "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/", "page_language": "en" }, { "service_id": "kintone", "name": "kintone and AI", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 50000, "model": "scoped_quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "Quoted per scope, tax excluded. One simple app has a fixed price from JPY 50,000. First consultation free" }, "scope": [ "AI-OCR so paper reaches kintone without retyping", "Generative AI and LLM integration", "Data analytics and prediction", "Agent automation across apps", "Internal knowledge search over kintone data", "External system and API integration", "Standard kintone design, app development, customization and enablement" ], "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/kintone/", "page_language": "en" }, { "service_id": "small-development", "name": "Small-scope development: kintone apps, automation, minor changes", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 50000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false, "note": "Fixed price per agreed scope, from JPY 50,000 before tax (JPY 55,000 tax included). Work outside the agreed scope is quoted separately before it starts" }, "for": "Small Japanese companies with one process to fix: records still kept in Excel, a kintone licence nobody has built on, a weekly manual routine, or an existing system that needs one more field", "not_for": "Large systems and long projects. For those, a scoped quote for AI integration or offshore development applies", "menu": [ { "item_id": "kintone-mini", "name": "kintone mini app", "name_ja": "kintoneミニアプリ", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 50000, "price_from_tax_included": 55000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false }, "examples": [ "customer list", "deal tracking", "daily reports", "inquiry handling", "inventory", "quotations", "approvals", "sales pipeline" ] }, { "item_id": "automation-mini", "name": "Automation mini build", "name_ja": "業務自動化ミニ開発", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 80000, "price_from_tax_included": 88000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false }, "examples": [ "Excel aggregation", "CSV processing", "data transfer between systems", "report generation", "email sending", "file organisation", "API and Google Workspace integration", "scheduled jobs" ] }, { "item_id": "minor-change", "name": "Minor change to an existing system", "name_ja": "既存システムの小改修", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 50000, "price_from_tax_included": 55000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false }, "examples": [ "add an input field", "screen change", "add a CSV export", "add an API", "minor bug fix", "admin screen improvement", "add search" ] }, { "item_id": "small-web", "name": "Small web system", "name_ja": "小規模Webシステム", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 100000, "price_from_tax_included": 110000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false }, "examples": [ "internal admin tool", "reservation management", "data lookup", "simple CRM", "status tracking", "master data management" ] } ], "scope_example": { "in_base_price": [ "customer registration", "customer search", "owner assignment", "basic list views" ], "quoted_separately": [ "automatic email sending", "external API integration", "automatic quotation documents", "advanced permission control", "data sync with an existing system" ] }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/ja/small-dev/", "page_language": "ja" }, { "service_id": "ai-ready-web", "name": "Website and landing page development for search engines and AI assistants (SEO, AEO, AIO)", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": null, "model": "scoped_quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "Quoted in writing per agreed scope before work starts, tax excluded. The audit that opens every engagement is free" }, "for": "Companies whose website is found only by name, that AI assistants describe wrongly or not at all, or whose service is too specialised or too new for existing keywords", "scope": [ "Audit: how the site reads today to a person, to Googlebot and Bingbot, and to the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, written down with sources", "Information architecture: URL structure, page hierarchy, entity definitions, topic clusters, internal links, breadcrumbs, canonical URLs", "Content design: who the company is, what it offers, for whom, what it does and does not do, what differs, what the evidence is, and when it was last updated, stated once", "Technical base: crawlable server-rendered HTML, indexability, sitemap, robots.txt, redirects, HTTP status, page speed with no render-blocking requests", "Structured data: JSON-LD for the entities that exist on the page (Organization, Service, Product, Person, Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList), never for content that is not visible", "Machine-readable surfaces where they earn their place: Markdown twins of pages, a fact ledger, llms.txt, all generated from one source", "Measurement: Search Console, GA4 referrals from AI assistants, Bing AI Performance, and inquiry tracking, with a written baseline", "Handover: the generation scripts and the editing rules, so the site keeps its consistency after we leave" ], "not_for": "Article volume. We do not sell monthly article quotas, link buying, or any promise about rankings or AI citations. Visual redesign for its own sake is out of scope; we change appearance only where it changes what a reader or a machine can read", "references": [ { "title": "Google Search Central, AI features and your website", "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features", "statement": "No additional requirements or special markup for AI Overviews and AI Mode; pages must be indexed and eligible for a snippet" }, { "title": "Google Search Central, Structured data general policies", "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies", "statement": "Structured data must represent visible page content; JSON-LD recommended" }, { "title": "Google Search Central, JavaScript SEO basics", "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basics", "statement": "Rendering is queued; server-side or pre-rendering is still recommended because not all bots run JavaScript" }, { "title": "OpenAI, Overview of OpenAI crawlers", "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots", "statement": "OAI-SearchBot surfaces sites in ChatGPT search; GPTBot is for training and does not affect search" }, { "title": "Anthropic, crawler documentation", "url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler", "statement": "ClaudeBot for training, Claude-User for user-initiated fetches, Claude-SearchBot for search quality" }, { "title": "Bing Webmaster Blog, AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools, February 2026", "url": "https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/February-2026/Introducing-AI-Performance-in-Bing-Webmaster-Tools-Public-Preview", "statement": "Citations in Copilot and Bing AI summaries are reported per URL; clear headings, tables, FAQ, cited sources and consistent entities are recommended" } ], "references_checked_on": "2026-09-18", "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/ai-ready-web/", "page_language": "en" }, { "service_id": "ai-bansou", "name": "AI-accompanied development: a homepage built with your own AI first, then small internal systems, step by step", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": null, "model": "scoped_quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "First consultation free. Process mapping and requirements definition are quoted in writing per agreed scope, tax excluded. A small internal system at a fixed price from JPY 50,000, tax excluded (the small-scope menu)" }, "for": "Small Japanese companies that want to use AI in their own operations but do not want to start with a large system: no IT staff, a few people who already use ChatGPT or similar, and one process (expense claims, approvals, daily reports) that is still done by hand", "phases": [ { "name": "Free consultation", "detail": "What you want to do and where the goal is. Written down in one page" }, { "name": "Process mapping", "detail": "Draw the business flow as it is, separate what a person must do from what an AI can do, and decide the scope of automation" }, { "name": "Requirements", "detail": "How the AI will be used, an estimate of running cost, and the list of functions to build" }, { "name": "Small system", "detail": "We build a small system. You use it and confirm it works; you do not write code" } ], "not_for": "Large systems built in one go, or requirements written by us alone without the client in the room. If a packaged product already does the job, we say so", "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/ja/ai-bansou/", "page_language": "ja" }, { "service_id": "website-production", "name": "Website production, closure and management", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": 50000, "model": "fixed_scope", "tax_included": false, "note": "Production and renewal from JPY 100,000; closure or takeover of management from JPY 50,000. Tax excluded" }, "for": "Businesses in and around Hadano, Kanagawa. A deliberately local service", "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/", "page_language": "en" }, { "service_id": "offshore", "name": "Offshore development", "availability": "available", "pricing": { "currency": "JPY", "price_from": null, "model": "quote", "tax_included": false, "note": "Quoted by scale and team structure. The first consultation is free and includes a rough team plan and cost estimate" }, "countries": [ "Vietnam", "Thailand", "Myanmar" ], "not_for": "Small builds of a few screens. For those we propose direct domestic development or kintone instead.", "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/services/offshore/", "page_language": "en" } ], "awards": [ { "name": "Legal Data Utilization Award, Digital Agency Law x Digital Hackathon 2025", "date": "2026-03", "work": "Fukko Compass, a disaster-recovery navigation system", "source_url": "https://www.digital.go.jp/policies/legal-practice/6acf8ad5-3668-4db4-b998-1c20eff10017" } ], "timeline": [ { "date": "2024", "event": "TechJapan LLC founded in Hadano, Kanagawa" }, { "date": "2026-02", "event": "Pasha Kintai launched. Covered by Gekkan Soumu Online and O!Product AI" }, { "date": "2026-03", "event": "Legal Data Utilization Award at the Digital Agency Law x Digital Hackathon, for Fukko Compass" }, { "date": "2026-05", "event": "Seminar on AI and VR for on-site implementation, held with Chuei Shinkin Bank" }, { "date": "2026-06", "event": "Pasha Kintai featured in Nikkei Construction, June 2026 issue" }, { "date": "2026-07", "event": "Pasha Kintai adds an integration for licensed labor consultants. Covered by VOIX biz" }, { "date": "2026-08", "event": "Hadano AI Cabinet published at h-c.ai: two-stage retrieval over a local knowledge database, served over MCP" }, { "date": "2026-09", "event": "Hadano AI Cabinet v2 record published at h-c.ai: verbatim evidence with positions, a machine-checked retrieval contract, optional shared access over HTTP, and Linux x64 alongside Windows x64" }, { "date": "2026-09", "event": "relay launched at relay.h-c.ai: will and did events between AI coding agents, free for one person, USD 3 per user per month for teams" } ], "events": [ { "event_id": "hadano-cci-2026-11", "name": "AIで儲けられるのか？", "subtitle": "中小製造業が生き残るためのAI経営戦略", "name_en": "Can AI make money? An AI management strategy for small manufacturers", "series": "秦野商工会議所工業部会 工業経営講座", "series_en": "Industrial management lecture, Industry Section, Hadano Chamber of Commerce and Industry", "start": "2026-11-04T15:00:00+09:00", "end": "2026-11-04T16:30:00+09:00", "attendance": "in_person", "language": "ja", "price": { "currency": "JPY", "amount": 0, "tax_included": true }, "organizer": "秦野商工会議所 工業部会", "co_hosts": [ "秦野商工会議所中小企業相談所", "秦野市" ], "venue": { "name": "秦野商工会議所", "name_en": "Hadano Chamber of Commerce and Industry", "room": "4階 401大会議室", "postal_code": "257-8588", "address": "神奈川県秦野市平沢2550-1", "country": "JP", "source_url": "https://www.hadano-cci.or.jp/access/" }, "speaker": { "name": "Go Kyono", "name_ja": "興野 剛", "role": "Managing Member" }, "agenda": [ "AIを活かせる会社・活かせない会社の違い", "ベテランは、なぜ仕事が早いのか", "AI時代は知能競争ではなく“記憶競争”", "社員の“日報”が未来のAIを育てる", "AIの4つのレベルと、製造業の活用事例", "AIが経営者へ“提案”してくる未来", "中小製造業が今日から始めること（0円から）" ], "registration": { "official_form_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSco-IGpMY9MSC1DJ0jve9BVHpygRmtY7GZrnQ1MOVAYUBXbwQ/viewform", "page_form_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/ja/seminar/hadano-2026-11/#apply", "contact": "秦野商工会議所 地域産業振興課", "tel": "0463-81-1355", "fax": "0463-82-0273" }, "source_url": "https://www.tech-japan.jp/ja/seminar/hadano-2026-11/", "page_language": "ja" } ], "technology": [ "Python 3.11 or newer, a C storage engine, and the Model Context Protocol (Hadano AI Cabinet)", "TypeScript, Node.js 20, React, Vite", "Google Cloud: Cloud Functions Gen2 and Cloud Storage", "Firebase: Auth, Firestore used only as a search index, Hosting", "Cloudflare R2 for binary storage, chosen for zero egress cost", "Neo4j and equivalent graph stores for knowledge graphs", "AI-OCR, Stripe" ], "evidence": [ { "subject": "hadano-ai-cabinet", "what": "specification, measurements, limitations", "url": "https://www.h-c.ai/", "machine_readable": "https://www.h-c.ai/facts.json" }, { "subject": "legal-data-utilization-award", "what": "award announcement", "url": "https://www.digital.go.jp/policies/legal-practice/6acf8ad5-3668-4db4-b998-1c20eff10017" } ] }