I heard that a startup which I don't know hired Chinese when I was working in a startup in Tokyo. I also found some non-Japanese speaking people were working in OpenSource cafe.
http://www.osscafe.net/en/
I'm going to give you some links that would be useful.
I'm just using CouchDB right now for my side project. Cloudant is offering really great service although they don't provide multi-tenant service in Japan. But I'll go for Cloudant unless latency between Japan and Singapore matters.
Its naming is a bit conflicting to component/reactive. The name "reactive" is so presumable that other people will choose in the future.
https://github.com/component/reactive
I haven't looked into Rivet.js, component/reactive or other equivalent library. I'm just planning to research which library is the best fit for me. I don't really like full-stack framework like Angular. It was nice to know yet another candidate.
Does anyone know any other reactive template engine?
I find it interesting that instead of using tags to target a list-item, it suggests putting a class on every li in the HTML. Seems rather bloating to the HMTL if you have a number of long lists.
Is using descendant selectors in that case bad enough to offset all those class attributes? I think I'd rather put a class on the ul or ol so that I can target the parents if needed and then can still easily target the li children.
I'm going to give you some links that would be useful.
Tokyo based Seed Accelerator: http://onlab.jp/
Social Hiring platform: https://www.wantedly.com/
Japanese AngelList-like service: http://creww.me/