Here at EliteChoice, we had a fad for gadgets and more so electric products. And the place that breeds these revolutionary products is Japan. Lately, we got hold off Taro Calvino, Editor, 3Yen for his expert views on blogging about Japan, trends in Japanese market, the floating gadgets from Japan and his mistakenly existence as a Japanese, thereby doing justice to our EliteBlogger series.

He loves being known as a ‘writer’ and chooses to ignore the titles he is worthy for i.e. blogger, reviewer cum entrepreneur. With out-of-the-box thinking, this multi-skilled personality keeps himself engaged with editing high-tech patents when not blogging. Whilst in any given hour of the day, he probably works five minutes on patents and 55 minutes staring at my navel and looking for wacky Japanese stuff over the Internet. Wits are embedded in him and before I allow you to dive into his pool of responses, I would like to pen down his favorite Japanese joke that he shared with me.
Q: What do you call a salaryman with an opinion?
A: Unemployed.

Here you go with the flow:
Introduce yourself to my readers and take us to your typical day at work?
The 3Yen.com and my Japanese existence is a mistake. That is, I studied Chinese not Japanese in grad school. Likewise, the 3Yen blogs hatched out my need for a just place to post my observations about Japan and my Photoshop oddities. My business partner, the mysterious Mr. Y had the same problem of too much junk just sitting on his computer desktop and so together we formed the 3Yen.com and invited a bunch of our friends to join in the fun.

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