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Zehitomo wants to turn Japan’s job-for-life workers into giggers

By banzaitokyo26 July 2017

Jordan Fisher came to Japan nine years ago to work in finance. But now the New Yorker is doing something quite different – building a startup.

With Zehitomo, he’s working on Japan’s answer to Silicon Valley’s Thumbtack, giving people an easy way to connect with freelancers like personal trainers, wedding photographers, or language tutors.

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Yubi #13144

This article sounds like Zehitomo is the first and the biggest service for freelancers :-p. In reality, freelancing has been thriving for quite a number of years, with sites like coconala.jp hosting a huge number of freelancers. This is one problem with articles by foreign residents here. Everything that a foreigner does is a "first" because of limited awareness in what is published in Japanese.

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