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Southeast Asian artists are making a killing with the startup as Japanese businesses embrace crowdsourced design work.

Minimal Technologies, the startup behind multilingual website localization service WOVN, has raised pre-series A funding from Opt Ventues and Nissay Capital.

Recruit will utilize WOVN’s translation widget to make navigating its websites easier for foreigners living in and visiting Japan.

Quipper School allows teachers to manage classes, create and distribute assignments, and analyze each student’s performance digitally.

The Japanese conglomerate continues to gobble up startups both domestically and abroad.

Recruit’s human resources service made it one Japan’s most celebrated companies, worth nearly $2 billion. Even so, the global rollout of AirRegi, a free point of sale product might be what it becomes best known for overseas.

Some familiar faces and some new players make our list. Check out the deals that shook up Japan’s startup tech scene.

Note: screenshots taken with Google Translate enabled. Wanderlust, makers of Japanese online travel log Compathy announced over the weekend it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from Incubate Fund and Recruit, according to

Recruit Media Lab, a research arm of Japan’s largest human resources and classified ad company, released an iPhone camera app with a variety of filter effects last week. It’s called

Austin-based jobs website Indeed.com has announced today that it is to be acquired by Japan’s largest HR and classified media group, Recruit co.Ltd. Indeed has been around since 2004, and