{"id":80654,"date":"2015-04-08T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=60337"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:46:31","slug":"line-fukuoka-to-rival-tokyo-hq-in-size","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/line-fukuoka-to-rival-tokyo-hq-in-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Line Fukuoka To Rival Tokyo HQ In Size"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Nishinippon Shimbun, Takeshi Idezawa, the president of Tokyo-based chat app LINE said he plans to expand the company\u2019s Fukuoka-based subsidiary, LINE Fukuoka, to equal the size of the Tokyo headquarters before the end of the calendar year. LINE Fukuoka, which opened in November 2013, currently employs 570 people, but will be expanded to roughly the same size as the Tokyo parent (which now employs about 790 people) and will serve as the company\u2019s second hub in Japan. According to Idezawa, LINE Fukuoka already has the \u201csame level of planning and development know-how\u201d as Tokyo, and the city of Fukuoka attracts \u201ctalent you can\u2019t get in other cities.\u201d LINE Fukuoka\u2019s employees include foreigners from 10 countries and regions. Meanwhile, the construction of the company\u2019s Fukuoka office building, for which ground was supposed to be broken in April 2014, has been delayed indefinitely due to rising costs. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the right time,\u201d said Idezawa. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 4\/7<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Nishinippon Shimbun, Takeshi Idezawa, the president of Tokyo-based chat app LINE said he plans to expand the company\u2019s Fukuoka-based subsidiary, LINE Fukuoka, to equal the size of the Tokyo headquarters before the end of the calendar year. LINE Fukuoka, which opened in November 2013, currently employs 570 people, but will be expanded to roughly the same size as the Tokyo parent (which now employs about 790 people) and will serve as the company\u2019s second hub in Japan. According to Idezawa, LINE Fukuoka already has the \u201csame level of planning and development know-how\u201d as Tokyo, and the city of Fukuoka attracts \u201ctalent you can\u2019t get in other cities.\u201d LINE Fukuoka\u2019s employees include foreigners from 10 countries and regions. Meanwhile, the construction of the company\u2019s Fukuoka office building, for which ground was supposed to be broken in April 2014, has been delayed indefinitely due to rising costs. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the right time,\u201d said Idezawa. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 4\/7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80654","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}